Carina Randløv – Do we create enough space for mistakes within the film industry?

In her KUV project, film director and visual artist Carina Randløv investigates whether there is room for errors in contemporary cinematic language. Through discussions with industry representatives and based on her own methods, Carina Randløv uncovers the potential and limitations for experimental filmmaking within the existing film system.

Period: April 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022.

Is there a need for us to make more mistakes in order to achieve a livelier and more diverse cinematic language, especially in a time when we are surrounded by global streaming platforms? Can we employ the open process approach familiar from the field of visual arts?

These are some of the questions that film director and visual artist Carina Randløv has explored and attempted to answer in her artistic research project (KUV) at the Danish Film School.

‘Do we create enough space for mistakes within the film industry?’ is an experimental project structured around discussions with a wide range of industry representatives, including filmmakers, educators, film consultants, critics, publicists, and curators. Concurrently, Randløv has examined her own method in five of her previous film projects, including through repeated workshops with actress Stina Mølgaard and playwright Line Knutzon.

Project Results

• The project demonstrated that the cinematic language is suffering from homogenization, and a part of the reason may be our fear of making mistakes. This fear is prevalent in both the creative process and, equally importantly, in the final result. If we underestimate the significance of errors, we cannot renew the visual language.
• Building on her KUV project, Randløv, in collaboration with the Danish Film School, organized a panel debate titled 'Have We Overlooked the Value of Mistakes in the Pursuit of Easy Film Fixes?' The panel participants included playwright Line Knutzon, the artist duo Astrup/Bordoff, media expert Katrine K. Pedersen, film consultant Frank P. Poulsen, film critic Nanna Frank Rasmussen, DR editor Jesper Skaaning, and the rector of the Danish Film School, Tine Fischer. The debate was moderated by cultural journalist Oliver Stilling and has subsequently been released as a podcast.
• As a culmination of the project, Carina published an article in the Research Catalogue.

Carina Randløv

Carina Randløv is an animation director from the Danish Film School in 2012 and is a self-taught visual artist with many years of experience, including 8 years in Berlin. She works at the intersection of documentary, fiction, and animation and often incorporates construction in her work. Carina is passionate about the process and the concept of error. She has created films such as 'The Unattainable' (2016), 'A Family Enterprise' (2017), and the documentary film 'Goodbye Without Thanks.'