In my article-based PhD, titled Traces, Gaps, Constellations: Acts of Remembering in the Contemporary Nordic Documentary Film, I explore how films create relationships with pasts in the present. I investigate the aesthetics and politics involved in acts of remembering in five Nordic documentaries produced in the 2000s where documentary remembering emerges as an evocative and generative process that forms connections between people, places and different temporalities. Remembering in documentary does not form a linear narrative from the past to the present, but in the film world, many temporalities exist simultaneously, interacting with each other. 

I am particularly interested in the shadows of Nordic memory cultures where the hegemonic historical narratives are challenged, in relation to the Second World War, Nordic colonialism and displacement. The transdisciplinary research is situated in the crossroads between documentary film studies and memory studies, with important branches to indigenous studies and film aesthetics. In the research, documentary film is seen as a site for encounters, translations and transformations, where aesthetic and ethical potential of the documentary film as a medium for remembering can be examined closer.