One evening. Three films. One conversation.

The night before Camille Henrot’s major exhibition Paper Planes opens at CC, you’re invited into our cinema for a rare encounter with the artist herself.

Henrot — one of the most talked-about artists of her generation — will be in conversation with CC Director Marie Laurberg about her artistic practice, her approach to filmmaking, and the exhibition that opens the following day. After the talk, you’ll watch all three of her major films in chronological order. The evening closes with the Scandinavian premiere of In the Veins — already described as an instant classic.

Seating is limited. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

The films

Grosse Fatigue (2013, 13 min.)

Henrot made this film while in residence at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., digging into its vast collections to pull together images of objects and specimens — animal skeletons, carved figurines — with footage she shot in offices and collection storage, plus video clips she both made and found online. She frames all of it in layered pop-up windows that continually open and close against a changing computer desktop. A spoken word-style voiceover weaves together creation stories from across cultures, merging scientific discovery and religious myth-making. Henrot describes it as “an intuitive unfolding of knowledge” — a portrait of our abundance of information, and its limits.

Saturday (2017, 19 min.)

Saturday focuses on the Seventh-Day Adventist Church — an evangelical Christian denomination that celebrates the Sabbath and practices immersion baptism rituals on Saturdays. Shot mostly in 3D at church sites in the USA, Polynesia, and the Kingdom of Tonga, the film combines scenes of rituals with images of food, surfing, and medical tests. Underneath it all, text scrolls continuously — at once a source of information and a desire to escape from it. Together, they form an immersion in hope, belief, and the very human longing for a life that feels more possible.

In the Veins — (2026, 35 min.) Scandinavian Premiere

Camille Henrot’s newest film is about raising children in a time of climate crisis and mass extinction. At its center lies ecological grief: the intimate, daily experience of living with irreversible loss.

The film begins with a simple contradiction. Animals fill the world of childhood — books, toys, songs, and the earliest lessons through which we learn to name the world. Yet many of those same animals are endangered, displaced, or disappearing. To reach “J for jaguar” in an alphabet book is to confront a profound gap between the symbolic world we inherited and the damaged world we are passing on.

Through images of wildlife rehabilitation centers — where injured animals are treated after encounters with poisoned environments and fractured habitats — Henrot connects the labor of caring for wild animals to the labor of raising children. Both require patience, restraint, and proximity without domination. Both stand in opposition to a culture that privileges speed, novelty, and consumption over repair and endurance. To care, the film proposes, is not a minor gesture — it is a form of courage.

Already described as an instant classic. Tonight, you see it first in Scandinavia.