HD VIDEO, 25 min., 2010 Norwegian with English Subtitles Synopsis: Time flows through the bottleneck of an hourglass like grains of sand. One after another, gravity pulls them through this centre of the earth. Where is this centre and what…
Tag: identity
THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
Tagged with: city, collective, community, documentary, found footage, identity, memory, norway, timetravel
THE MEADOW
Video (DV), 28:38 min (loop), 2007 Screening Version: 29:40 min, 2007 Synopsis: In order to engage an increasingly commercialized society video artist Bjørn Melhus subjects commonly used media tactics and formats to a process of reflection and reconsideration. With THE MEADOW Melhus…
Tagged with: angst, choice, coming of age, fear, identity, jimmy, subconscious, time structure, wood
BEHIND THE MOON, BEYOND THE RAIN
Video, 2 channel installation, 7:50 min, loop, 2005 Screening Version (single channel), 7:50 min, 2005 Synopsis: “Behind the Moon, Beyond the Rain” is a continuation of his 1995 film “Weit Weit Weg” (Far Far Away), based on “The Wizard of…
Tagged with: 10 years, ageing, depression, exhaustion, identity, miscommunication, stagnation, telephone
AUTO CENTER DRIVE
16 mm film transferred to video, 28:00 min, 2003 Synopsis: By quoting the most diverse identification models from the memory bank of 20th century Pop culture and its embodiment by Melhus himself, a completely new contextualisation of known roles is…