The Norwegian video artist Hanne Rivrud brings a tender romanticism rarely encountered in her medium (where the hyper-hip MTV mentality too often prevails) to bear in her piece "I Think I Feel a Little Hurt". Shot when the artist was living in Berlin, directly opposite a construction site, the video fixates poetically on different male workers going about their business, while the artist narrates a wistful voice-over fantasizing romantic entanglements with them. Against a musical backdrop, wistful schoolgirlish musings such as "I think he is in love with me" culminate in the denouement "Time to make a choice; in fact, I already have…"

Ed McCormack, Gallery&Studio Magazine, New York, Vol. 9, No. 3