galleri Rostrum, Malmö, 2016

video loop: 12.53 min
camera and edit: Helena Wikström
music: Daniel Westman

During a period of two years we examined the Umeå river delta area in northern Sweden. This area is interesting because the landscape changes very quickly. During the ice age the land was pressed down and it is now rising back up with a speed of 1 cm/year which doesn’t maybe sound much but with a flat shoreline quickly makes a difference. The river also brings a lot of sand and sediment and this material accumulates in the delta so that new islands are born. The new-born islands are first just sandbanks but soon enough grasses and shrubs start growing there and eventually the island is part of the delta’s deciduous forest.

In Vadaren we follow a person walking in the river between the islands. Sometimes the camera dives down in the water and follows the person in this underwater landscape. What today is covered by flowing water will in a few years time have risen and become land.

The film is distributed by Filmform.
link here
and a short excerpt here