Kautschuk – The Crying Tree (video and workshop) 2020

Kautschuk - The crying tree, is a video work and participatory project based on the rubber goods production of the Viking rubber factory which was located in Heggedal, Norway during the early 20th century. The film shows a workshop from September 2020 where a local senior theater group rehearses a sound work by the young composer Victoria Finstad Nunes, a work commissioned by the artists. The soundtrack is based on original texts about rubber goods production written by Viking director P.M Røwde in 1920. The texts are composed by Moi and Hedberg and are a poetic description of the rubber boom's development that started in Brazil and spread by the british colonizers to Great Britain and from there to Asia.

The work examines power structures in relation to raw materials and the development of industry in a globalized world.

It is a known fact that Norway and the western countries have made large economic and social profits in industries that refine raw materials from previously colonized countries. Kautschuk  - The Crying Tree is the first part of a planned film trilogy that addresses this.


Participants: 
Holmen theater group / Johan Karlsen, Rygdi Margrete Gabrielsen, Sidsel Rødland Korsvoll, Unni Mølbach, Marit Lovise Kolstad. Director Holmen senior theater / Cecilie Solberg Knudsen Composition / Viktoria Finstad Nunes Film and clip / Audun Severin Eftevåg Film / Benedikte Rønsen Sound

https://vimeo.com/508850248