IN BETWEEN is an exhibition that moves through a possible wormhole in time – a state between life and death, memory and body, cosmos and earth. The narrator returns to a place where the ground holds warmth and where time ceases to be linear. In weightlessness, shame, desire, grief, and love coexist, along with encounters with the dead and with oneself. The film moves through parallel worlds where Sáivu – a place beyond time – opens up another understanding of life’s end as part of life itself.
IN BETWEEN is a poetic exploration of the spaces in between: where identity can dissolve, reflect, and be recreated, and where, ultimately, it becomes possible to be oneself.
Liselotte Wajstedt
(b. 1973, Kiruna) is a Sámi writer, director, and visual artist working across film, animation, and material-based practices. Her work spans short and feature-length fiction and documentary film, as well as objects, embroidered works, and installations. Rooted in long-term documentary practice, her work explores political resistance, family dynamics, heritage, and identity, often through intimate and character-driven narratives.
With a background in experimental moving image and fine art, Wajstedt brings a strong visual and poetic sensibility to her storytelling, where realism is frequently interwoven with subjective, symbolic, and tactile layers. Across film and material-based works, she often works with repetition, gesture, and embodied memory.
Wajstedt has directed over two dozen short and feature-length works across documentary and fiction. In recent years, her focus has shifted increasingly toward scripted fiction and politically grounded storytelling, while maintaining a deep commitment to documentary methods and lived experience. Her artistic practice often centres on individuals and families navigating systemic pressure, silence, and intergenerational responsibility.
She has a background in painting, animation, and experimental filmmaking, and has attended the Project Programme in Free Art at the Royal Institute of Art. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Expression in Convergent Media from Gotland University (2011) and completed the Alma Scriptwriting Programme for feature films and TV series (2022).
Her recent film In My Hand (2025), co-directed with Marja Helander, premiered at Göteborg Film Festival and had its Norwegian premiere at Tromsø International Film Festival, where it won the Tromsøpalmen – Best Short Film, as well as Best Short Documentary at imagineNATIVE 2025. Earlier works include Tystnaden i Sápmi / Silence in Sápmi (2022), Eadni (screened at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia), Kiruna – Rymdvägen (2013), and Sámi Nieida Jojk (2007), distributed by Folkets Bio.
