Elisabeth Brun’s ‘Big Tech Blues’ Screens at Art Lovers Movie Club
Elisabeth Brun’s auto-documentary ‘Big Tech Blues’ (2025) follows a small village in northern Norway fighting the arrival of a SpaceX Starlink Gateway transmission site. The film combines personal essay and documentary, featuring patient landscape shots, family footage, and interviews with residents protesting noise pollution, radiation fears, and ecological impacts. Brun collaborates with cinematographer Eivind H. Natvig. The work questions whether the internet now replaces rather than extends the tangible world, linking local resistance to broader corporate control of communication. Screening runs 15 May–10 June 2026 at artreview.com as part of Art Lovers Movie Club. Brun (b. 1977, Northern Norway) is a filmmaker and researcher based in Oslo, with a PhD in Media Studies and author of ‘Place and the Moving Image’ (Routledge, 2025).
Key facts
- Elisabeth Brun’s film ‘Big Tech Blues’ (2025) is an auto-documentary protest song for her childhood village in Northern Norway.
- The film documents the village’s fight against a SpaceX Starlink Gateway transmission site built on the site of Brun’s former primary school in Strengelvåg.
- Concerns include noise pollution, radiation, and impacts on local flora and fauna.
- Brun notes the irony of the community organizing on Facebook and meeting the project’s representative via Zoom.
- The film is co-produced with photographer and visual artist Eivind H. Natvig (D.O.P).
- Music is by Alexander Rishaug.
- Screening dates: 15 May–10 June 2026 on artreview.com.
- Brun holds a PhD in Media Studies and authored ‘Place and the Moving Image’ (Routledge, 2025).
Entities
Artists
- Elisabeth Brun
- Eivind H. Natvig
- Alexander Rishaug
Institutions
- Art Lovers Movie Club
- ArtReview
- SpaceX
- Starlink
- Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
- Seattle Art Museum
- Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
- MedienKunstTage NRW
- Lofoten International Art Festival
- Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm
- Routledge
Locations
- Strengelvåg
- Northern Norway
- Norway
- Oslo
- Lofoten
- Stockholm
- Sweden