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Screening of the film Manifesto followed by a discussion with its director Ane Hjort Guttu

September 18, 2025, 3 p.m.

Intermedia studio, AFAD, room 260
Drotárska cesta 44, Bratislava

The event will be held in English.

How can we confront structures that oppress us and overlook our needs? In her fictional documentary, Ane Hjort Guttu presents an example of radical self-organization and the creation of a parallel "anti-structure" within the environment of an art academy. Her film Manifesto reflects recent changes in art education in Scandinavian countries, which, alongside a new teaching concept, have been translated into new architecture for school buildings. Although intended to be open, multifunctional, and inclusive, this architecture functions as an effective tool of restriction and control.

After the screening, we invite you to join a discussion with Ane Hjort Guttu about the background of the film, her artistic practice, and her approach to art education at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo.

Manifesto (27 mins, 2021) takes place in an art school, which on the surface functions as an institute of fine art in a large, consolidated university. Secretly however, it operates as an autonomous, experimental school with its own rules for teaching, evaluation, reporting, planning, admissions, and management. The "pseudo-dean” acts as if he is the head of the institute, while students and staff have elected another, unofficial rector. The official courses are announced on the digital learning platform, all the while, other, secret projects, which only the students and teachers know about, are carried out and presented simultaneously. Since preparing food at school is not allowed, the students have constructed a mobile kitchen hidden inside a wall, and since they feel that art education should be open for everyone, they furtively invite outsiders into the school.