SALT KISS - TRAILER (PART I)
Salt Kiss I (2010)
Short film (color, sound), 25 min.
Salt Kiss is a cinematic trilogy about escape, loss, belonging and identity in a multicultural Norway.
Salt Kiss I is largely about Qaradaki’s childhood experiences in Kurdistan, at a time when war and mass destruction were a large part of everyday life. The war between Iran and Iraq is seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy, Qaradaki as a child: not through an analysis of political issues in a war situation, but as a self-perceived picture of reality. The story jumps in time, and also touches on his life as an asylum seeker in Norway and the time on the run.
Short film (color, sound), 25 min.
Salt Kiss is a cinematic trilogy about escape, loss, belonging and identity in a multicultural Norway.
Salt Kiss I is largely about Qaradaki’s childhood experiences in Kurdistan, at a time when war and mass destruction were a large part of everyday life. The war between Iran and Iraq is seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy, Qaradaki as a child: not through an analysis of political issues in a war situation, but as a self-perceived picture of reality. The story jumps in time, and also touches on his life as an asylum seeker in Norway and the time on the run.
Salt Kiss by
Marianne Altmann
Salte Kyss - Part 1 is an autobiographical film installation by Kurdish artist Shwan Dler Qaradaki. This twenty minute piece takes us on a powerful dramaturgical journey through the phases of Qaradaki's life; from his impoverished but happy childhood in Suleimeni, to the first Gulf war, his flight from his home as a teenager and the complex and often harrowing life he has led as a refugee seeking a safe house.
Qaradaki bends time in the piece, taking us in one moment to his childhood village, and then juxtaposing it immediately - but gently - with his life here in Oslo as an asylum seeker waiting to hear is fate from UDI. As with Qaradaki's previous works Salt Kyss is marked by the artist's great humilty and humanity. This is not a voice that seeks to condemn, nor places any demand upon the viewer. With humour and great heart, and not least the pain of displacement we are given a unique and very personal view of one person's very extraordinary life.
Qaradaki has collaborated with performance artist Kate Pendry in the direction of the piece: Salte kyss - 1 is the first part of what will be a triolgy showing the complete arc of Qaradaki's journey from war zone to safety, from home to another life.