The Group Crit (2023)

Plot Summary

Contemporary art has become an arena for political debate, and nowhere is this more evident than at the art academies. Norwegian artist Sille Storihle has designed a role-playing game to explore the issues. The rules of the game are clear: The students at the Film and Art School in Kabelvåg were given fictitious characters which they themselves developed further and act out in a group critique of each other’s work. But while the rules are clear, the game itself can easily spin out of control! And it does in ‘The Group Crit’, where the students (who are all in character) don’t hold back from criticising each other’s artworks – and each other in general – so we soon forget the performative framework of the heated debate. The collective experiment challenges not only the students’ self-perception, but also Storihle’s own authority as a director. An important, witty and wild work created with the active participation of the students.

Full Cast & Characters

Emilie Aagensen

Participating student number 1

Arjun David Acharya

Participating student number 2

Ingeborg Augunset

Participating student number 3

David Haugaard Bohl Andersen

Participating student number 4

Lise Ulvedahl Carlsen

Participating student number 5

Rebekka Christophersen

Participating student number 6

Emil Engesnes Bråthen

Participating student number 7

Gustav Oliver Gunvaldsen

Participating student number 8

Ali Jabaly

Participating student number 9

Thomas Lafuente

Participating student number 10

Haakon Midtsundstad

Participating student number 11

Simen Anthony Samuelsen

Participating student number 12

Director & Crew

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