The Group Crit

The Group Crit (2023)

DocumentaryComedy

Contemporary art has become an arena for political debate, and nowhere is this more evident than at the art academies. Norwegian artist Sille Storihle has designed a role-playing game to explore the issues. The rules of the game are clear: The students at the Film and Art School in Kabelvåg were given fictitious characters which they themselves developed further and act out in a group critique of each other’s work. But while the rules are clear, the game itself can easily spin out of control! And it does in ‘The Group Crit’, where the students (who are all in character) don’t hold back from criticising each other’s artworks – and each other in general – so we soon forget the performative framework of the heated debate. The collective experiment challenges not only the students’ self-perception, but also Storihle’s own authority as a director. An important, witty and wild work created with the active participation of the students.

Director: Sille Storihle

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	Emilie Aagensen as Participating student number 1
	Arjun David Acharya as Participating student number 2
	Ingeborg Augunset as Participating student number 3
	David Haugaard Bohl Andersen as Participating student number 4
	Lise Ulvedahl Carlsen as Participating student number 5
	Rebekka Christophersen as Participating student number 6
	Emil Engesnes Bråthen as Participating student number 7
	Gustav Oliver Gunvaldsen as Participating student number 8
	Ali Jabaly as Participating student number 9
	Thomas Lafuente as Participating student number 10
	Haakon Midtsundstad as Participating student number 11
	Simen Anthony Samuelsen as Participating student number 12
	Sanjey Sureshkumar as Participating student number 13
	Magdalena With Vedelsby as Participating student number 14
	Ellen Vikström as Participating student number 15

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