Familiar news
An animated reflection on the terrifying yet seductive every days news. The reporter in the TV studio gets tired and long for home. But the anxiety is still there and the flow of news breaks the wall. The framed child moves and suddenly we are in the middle of the terrifying but still astonishing beautiful pictures from war. The film comments the fact that daily news also works as entertainment. The footage (still-photos and video) and the sound (music and effects) are also made to be both beautiful and terrifying. It’s a picture of the situation where we in welfare countries get breaking news from all over the world. War and catastrophes, natural or caused by man. How do we use this knowledge? Do we make any better decisions in our daily life to help those people or to prevent war? Or do we see the pictures from our comfortable home and say to ourselves OK. I’m better of than them? Or do we get a kick out of them? Still there are people and children suffering in the middle of all this business with selling news.

Katarina Jönsson
Katarina Jönsson-Norling lives in Gävle and was born 1959 in Södertälje, Sweden. Her works involve different media and materials, often combining photos, paintings and objects into installations and animations, and deal with tasks concerning the individual and the collective perspective of society. Currently she is working with FamiliarLife, an exhibition for the county council artmuseum in Gävle. FamiliarLife is is an installation wiith paintings and objects from the animation FamiliarNews. Earlier exhibitions include: Gävle artcenter, Härnösands Konsthall, Moviken Art, and Liljevalchs artgallery. Outdoor sculpture comissions in Gävle, Sandviken and Ljusdal. FamiliarNews has been screened in several countries, most recently at the *International Fest of Cinema and technologie, *USA. She has received several grants from the Swedish visual arts fund.

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