A film essay that uses Dale, a small place on the west coast of Norway, as a prism to look at global changes related to production and economy. The main industry in Dale was a textile factory, but production has moved to Pakistan, and the factory building now houses a server farm mining bitcoin. Labour forces are in flux as industry moves to lower -cost places, water runs through pipelines
to provide electricity, and data flows
through cables, adding to financial profits and speculation: capital is global and in constant motion.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Stine Gonsholt and Åse Løvgren are artists and filmmakers living and working in Norway. They have collaborated since 2017, exploring the effects of global changes on local landscapes. Their work focuses on transitions related to production and technology, and how such processes leave their mark on the environment and alter our understanding of a place.

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