ELLINOR AURORA AASGAARD &
ZAYNE ARMSTRONG
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Charli & The Factory 

2024
34 min

format - color HD animation film, 30fps, stereo sound
length - 34 mins
created by - Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong

written by - Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Zayne Armstrong

animation - Esteban Rivera

cast -  Andrea Birmingham, Adrian Blount, Magdo Chuchrcka, Meri Koivisto, Robin Meisner, Fan Popo, Mark Ivan Serunjogi

music - 333 Boyz (Sam Lubicz & Liam Morrison)

sound - Farshad Xadjehnassiri, Tarxun

made with support from - Buskerud Kunstsenter, Arts Council Norway, Association of Norwegian Visual Artists, The Art Centres in Norway (KiN), Triangle-Astérides



While taking photos for a puff piece at a gym, aspiring journalist Charli witnesses a FitWatch exploding, ripping off a runner’s hand. But the gym employees don’t seem surprised. In following the money, Charli’s love life, chosen family and body become entangled in the perils of skimming the terms and conditions. This melodrama uses glitchy animation to satirise gig-economy labour.









SCREENINGS

10.04.2025
Felleshus, The Nordic Embassies, Berlin (DE)

15.12.2024
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, curated by Nerdka Collective, Warsaw (PL)

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We began our artist duo with a serial video ‘soap opera’ project called Days, and most of our work relates to its storylines or functions as its scenography. Days adapts the romantic themes, typical to soap operas, to stories about labour (emotional, unpaid and abstract labour), and its domestic spaces are swapped for the so-called ‘third spaces’ of neo-liberal labour: the cafe, hostel, bar, car, gym, co-working space, public park, etc. The video works engage numerous collaborators in forms of satirical auto-fiction and docudrama, set within synthetic stylized spaces that speculate urban dystopia. 



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