IN OUR PRESENCE/EN NUESTRO PRESENTE
Shortfilm 18 min, 2019 HD
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/313349403

Starring: Teresa Alcaraz Navarro, Remedios Novejarque Zaragoza, Michael Gerard O’Dea, Lucio Garcia Aledo.
Directed & Produced: Sabina Jacobsson
Camera & Edit: Sabina Jacobsson
Assistant Director: Sara Serrano
Music & Sound: Per Platou
Actors Coaching: Pepe Galera, Rocio Bernal

Through her art, Sabina Jacobsson often draws attention to social issues, whether it be reflections on gender or cultural solidarity, or political issues. She reflects on identity; what it means to be human -a part of society – how to adjust to social expectations, being excluded, questioning what you experience…

“I Vårt Nu” (In Our Presence) reaches deep into her personal experiences, being based on her mother’s reactions to loosing her husband, Sabina’s father. The short film is a co-work between Jacobsson and people engaged in a Spanish organization that helps people who, in one way or other, have fallen outside of society.

“I have written a script about my father’s death and my mother’s reaction to it. I sent it to Spain a few weeks before I went there. I asked them to read it and make their own interpretation of it from their life situation. They were helped by employees in the organization to work with it. When I came down, we started without preparation with the recording. It took three days. I do not speak Spanish, so my method was to observe their presence and body language in interaction with each other. We then changed the content of the script, depending on their mental reactions that day. Some failed to complete the recordings and were exchanged with others. There was a lot of improvisation…”