In my article-based PhD, with the working title Documentary Imagination: Practices of Remembering in the Contemporary Nordic Documentary Film, I explore how films create relationships with the past in the present. As my primary material, I investigate five Nordic documentaries produced in the 2000s where documentary remembering emerges as an evocative and collective 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 each other. 

I am particularly interested in the shadows of Nordic societies where the hegemonic national 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, memory studies and postcolonial studies. Documentary film is seen here as a site for encounters, translations and transformations of memory, where aesthetic and ethical potential of the film medium itself can be examined closer.