Hoods

Hoods

HOODS is a screendance piece where choreography, landscape and camera co-create in real time. Drawing on Skånberg’s earlier choreographic material and improvisation shaped on site, the film unfolds in spaces marked by histories that precede industrial clear-cutting and pulp mills.

In Swedish, bok means both beech tree and book. The forest is a living archive – a place where knowledge once moved through bodies, gestures and breath rather than written records. Moving backwards through time, Skånberg and Emilsson dance with eachother, with their grandmothers: those they knew, and those whose lives were never documented, only carried.

Through voice, rhythm and repetition, HOODS plays with states of minds – childhood, neighbourhood, nationhood – tracing a lineage that includes the mass emigration from Sweden to the United States. Svärdséns camera is a participant, responding intuitively to movement, space and proximity. Ohlander’s editing follows the same logic – listening rather than explaining – allowing embodied memory to surface.

HOODS is an invitation to sense space through movement, and to ask where freedom, belonging and inheritance reside: in bodies, in forests, in neighbourhoods.

Credits:
Content, voice, text: Ami Skånberg
Camera: Sara Svärdsén
Editing: Rasmus Ohlander
Music: Kajsa Magnarsson
Performers: Anna Emilsson, Ami Skånberg
Support: The Adlerbertska Research Foundation, Villa Martinsson, Göteborg Stad