Film screening: Fire Nation by Ina Hagen

The screening will be followed by Q & A with Tom Mels, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography Uppsala University - Campus Gotland

The Conversation will be held in English.

Free admission.

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About the film

What role do so-called ‘soft values’ play in racial capitalism, and how do they shape our vision of a just, green energy transition? In the video work ‘Fire Nation’ (2021), Ina Hagen engages with the rebranding of Norway’s largest oil and gas company, the majority state owned ‘Statoil’ to ‘Equinor,’ through which the company sought to relaunch as a broad energy company with a future oriented, socially and ecologically conscious image.

Through slow, often hypnotic, fragmentary images, ‘Fire Nation’ takes a single promotional video from the 250 million kroner rebranding campaign, and deconstructs it through conversations about climate optics, colonial exploitation, power and powerlessness.

Told in the voices of: Activist Emma Eide Rydningen, social anthropologist Ståle Knudsen, former head of the Norwegian Maritime Museum Espen Wæhle, senior researcher at the Western Norway Research Institute Ragnhild Freng Dale and Petro Stempniewski.