On the 13th of November, 2025, I started a new YouTube channel, Hellberg Moving Image, which is dedicated to more than ten years of video making. Appart from showing trailers, previews and complete video works the channel will also become a platform for experimental moving image works.
Today, 8th of December, I decided to premiere an HD version of Things that Get in Our Way – Mk1 on the channel. The work is a tribute to all the things we know very little about, yet still hold strong opinions on.
Oviken, where this film is shot, is now being considered for uranium mining under new Swedish legislation. Open-pit mining would poison water systems, destroy forest environments, and release one of the most chemically toxic substances we know. When enriched, Uranium is extremely chemically toxic—and when enriched, it becomes astronomically dangerous.
This video was originally conceived in the wake of Fukushima—a disaster that reshaped global trust in nuclear safety—and during the European migrant crisis, another moment when fear and rhetoric overtook facts. The polarisation I witnessed then is repeating itself now.
This new edit was completed in 2025 as a direct reaction to Sweden’s current push for new nuclear facilities and the reactivation of uranium mining, despite its irreversible ecological consequences. Art cannot stop policy, but it can expose it.
