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On the Threshold

As they were waiting for the right to vote, women wanted a meeting place where they could learn art, politics, and discuss women’s rights and issues. In 1911 they founded the Arendal discussion association.

Birgitte Sigmundstad

Birgitte Sigmundstad lives in Oslo and primarily works with moving images. She is educated at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design in England. Sigmundstads films are essayistic and are tied to art, art history or historical events. A recurring subject matter in Sigmundstads films is how art is used ideologically. In recent years Sigmundstad has worked with several films about the mediation of the second world war in Norway. She is currently working on a film about the new National Museum in Oslo.

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