Film Programme,Transitt
Places We Meet - Art in Public Spaces
Stavanger, November 21 - November 23, 2025
Transitt – A film programme exploring movements through shared spaces
Public spaces are always in motion. They are where we cross paths with one another, with nature, and with the infrastructures and systems that shape our everyday lives. They hold past, present, and future all at once. The streets, parks, and squares we move through are not merely backdrops to our daily routines, but part of a wider network of movement, energy, economy, and memory that connects us – from the local to the global, and back again.
The film programme Transitt, presented during the weekend of 21–23 November 2025, explores some of these inevitable connections. Through a broad selection of artist films, it reflects on how we move through the world and how the world, in turn, moves through us. The title Transitt points towards movement, change, and transformation. The programme dwells on the in-between moments like those of waiting, shifting, and passing through, inviting us to pause, breathe, and experience art and film in new ways. With a selection of works screened in the auditorium at Stavanger Art Museum (November 21-22) and publicly accessible via QR codes placed on signs throughout the Våland neighbourhood during the weekend, Transitt offers multiple free formats for experiencing and engaging with artist films. The films range from the sensory to the conceptual, each exploring what the concept of transit can mean within public space.
Over the course of the weekend, Transitt traces connections between the human and the constructed, between nature and urban life, and the collective and the personal. Both art and bodies in public space are never static but constantly in motion. By screening the selected films, the programme will unfold both inside the city’s art museum and outdoors in the urban environment, mirroring the idea of art as movement, dialogue, and encounter in spaces we share.
The artists participating in Transitt are Anette Gellein, Iván Argote, Yuyan Wang, Jane Jin Kaisen, New Mineral Collective, Linda Lamignan, Jenni Laiti & Carl-Johan Utsi, Nanna Elvin Hansen & Ase Brunborg Lie.
The film programme is made in collaboration with Stavanger Art Museum.
Anette Gellein, Eg hate å gå på butikken (filmstill), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.
Anette Gellein, Galne trommer (filmstill), 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Anette Gellein, Svalbard Church of Darkness (filmstill), 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
Iván Argote, Levitate (filmstill), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
Jenni Laiti & Carl-Johan Utsi, Teardrops of Our Grandmother (filmstill), 2023. Courtesy of the artists.
Yuyan Wang, All movements should kill the wind (filmstill), 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
Nanna Elvin Hansen & Ase Brunborg Lie, Moving Mountains (filmstill), 2023. Courtesy of the artists.
Jenni Laiti & Carl-Johan Utsi, Teardrops of Our Grandmother (filmstill), 2023. Courtesy of the artists.
Linda Lamignan, DIRIMOR (filmstill), 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Linda Lamignan, DIRIMOR (filmstill), 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Jane Jin Kaisen, Tale of One or Many Mountains (filmstill), 2017. Courtesy of the artist.
Iván Argote, Levitate (filmstill), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
Jane Jin Kaisen, Tale of One or Many Mountains (filmstill), 2017. Courtesy of the artist.
Friday
The first day of Transitt turns its gaze towards the public realm ranging from monuments and architecture to civic spaces that carry traces of history. The films explore the political, economic, and emotional forces that shape our encounters with the built environment. Through different perspectives and visual imagery, the films question how power, memory, and identity are formed and negotiated within the landscapes we move through — and how the architecture that surrounds us can both sustain and challenge the idea and sense of collective belonging.
19.00–19.10 Welcome and introduction
19.10–20.20 Film screenings
20.20–20.50 Panel conversation
20.50–21.00 Closing and thank you
Saturday
Saturday’s programme explores the body’s relationship with nature - from landscapes shaped by extraction, by the remnants of industrial memory, and by the ongoing transformations of the natural world. The films presented here examine the ground beneath our feet as both resources and witnesses, questioning what it means to live in landscapes shaped by centuries of both care and consumption. They invite a slower form of attention – one that listens, breathes, and remembers. Through these artistic films, the programme expands from a reflection on public space into a meditation on planetary entanglement.
10.00–10.10 Welcome and introduction
10.10–11.15 Film screenings
11.15–11.50 Panel conversation
11.50–12.00 Closing and thank you
Tickets are free and can be booked via Stavanger Municipality’s website: https://stavangerkunstmuseum.ticketco.events/no/nb/m