Open Call

2024    
DCP/2K 
103 min

In Open Call the relationship between art, the people and the municipality is put to a test. An artist gets the commission to create an artwork to mark the city jubilee. With “participation” as method, a group of citizens of Oslo joins the project. They are asked to develop and present their own art proposals under the guiding principles “trust, creativity and joyful collaboration”. Together the group will come to a joint conclusion of the best artwork for the city. The project develops into a tragicomic dystopia when the artist attempts to please the municipal bureaucracy as well as multifaceted public.

Open Call will be presented in the autumn of 2024 in various locations. The artwork is based on game design and revolves the ethical, political, historical and social issues surrounding art in public spaces. The work is commissioned by the City of Oslo as an artwork for the celebration of the Norwegian capital's 400th anniversary.

More about the project here

Concept
Game Design
Production
Sille Storihle

Co-producer
Charlie Beck Solvær

Players
Nosizwe Baqwa
Hedda Eirin Østberg Faldet Louise Löwenberg
Ole Asgeir Madland
Ole Petter Ribe
Paweł Stypuła
Sille Storihle
Charlie Beck Solvær
Desiree Bøgh Vaksdal

Camera
Kristoffer Archetti Stølen
Sophie Søborg

Sound recordists
Ad Stoop
Miles Croft

Editor
Katrin Ebersohn

Sound Design
Jochen Jezussek

DIT
Alexander Brucki

Script
Magnus Mork

Artist Assistant
Berivan Erdogan

Graphic Design
Levi Bergqvist

Color Grading
Ricco Højland Hansen

Trailer
Espen Haslene

Project leader Oslo Kommune
Mari Fredriksen Sundet

Commisioned by
Oslo Kommunes Kunstsamling