Melancholy accompanies Johanna Billing's interpretations of changing social situations. In her precisely conceived films, she portrays people in posed situations with complex backgrounds. The extremely concentrated plots move between documentary and fiction.

The film presented in O.K takes up the song “Magical World”, composed in 1968 by the Agro-
American Sidney Barnes, which is not explicitly political, but has become a symbol the 1960ies.
The film, shot in 2005 in Zagreb, moves between shots of a children's group in a music room singing this song, and outside shots of a cultural center. The socialist representational building from the eighties is one of the largest of its kind and presents a contrast to the upheaval that the Croatian children intone with the song.
9th Istanbul Biennale, 2005

Johanna Billing, born 1973 in Jönköping, Sweden, lives and works in Stockholm

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