Magnus Bjørnstad

Four young adults plan to make a movie in the forest, but when they disturb a Sami burial ground, strange things start to happen.

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.

Exploring a rare neurological condition in which people experience disorienting and often uncomfortable sensory distortions of time and space, Hearing Squares is an attempt at visualizing the indescribable, using experiments with film grain, warped audio and nebulous AI-generated backdrops.

What is a room? A window? A fork? Basic concepts start to deteriorate in this exploration of late stage dementia rendered through liminal spaces and odd objects.