Six Sami filmmakers are currently making art films to be shown at what is called the world's most prestigious art event, the Venice Biennale.
We met one of them and a happy but tired film crew at the airport in Kiruna.
They have recorded the film Ovias by Ann Holmgren in the area between Soppero and Karesuando.
The films are recorded with special technology to be shown on a screen around a lávvu.
They say that there are special challenges with filming at 270 °.
- We are pushed quite hard by these film artists to do extreme things.
The biggest challenge is in the elements of nature, says filmmaker Bjørn-Morten Nerland, CEO of Stargate Media.
To be shown in large lavvu in Venice
The films will be shown in a large lavvu at the biennial at the end of August.
The audience will stand up and be surrounded by the screen.
Ann Holmgren is one of the six Sami filmmakers who got to think.
She says that it is not possible to have a dialogue as in a normal short film.
She enjoys approaching art in her filmmaking.
- It is very exciting, I look forward to all the new contacts you will get.
I see it as a privilege to be part of this context.
The other artists have very beautiful and special projects that I am also proud to show my film with.
Two years ago, the Office for Contemporary Art in Norway (OCA), which has the main responsibility for the exhibitions in the Nordic Pavilion during the Venice Art Biennale 2022, announced that Sápmi will take over the Nordic Pavilion.
Pauliina Feodoroff, Maret Anne Sara and Anders Sunna exhibit in the Sami pavilion.
Britta Marakatt Labba is in the main exhibition at the biennial, which starts at the end of April.
See Ann Holmgren tell more about the film and the filming in the clip above