Dear Sister / Kjære søster, 2023 – ongoing
Documentary (road movie)
Produced by Purple Dragons Tales AS
Function: Director, photographer
The project is a part of Doc Forward talent program 2024.
Dear Sister will be a 90 minutes documentary about the sisters Tine and Helen, and how they cope with their childhood traumas. It will be a roadmovie where they revisit places they lived growing up. The sisters will share the process with each other through video diaries, and will also share the process of making the documentary.
We won’t be silenced, ongoing
Documentary, LGBTQ+
Produced by Integritet Film AS
Function: DOP
In June 2022 a terrorist attacked a well-known gay bar in the center of Oslo. We meet Kaltham Alexander Lie, Inge Aas, Stephan Udbjørg, TinaTin, Ingrid Frivold among others, who tell their personal stories about life as queer artists in Norway. This documentary shows how the attack changed their lives and stories.
Give me your haram, ongoing
Documentary, LGBTQ+
Produced by PurpleDragons
Function: Director and DOP
“I’m Sassy. Let me tell you my story.”
The film follows Sassy Allure, from his first show playing original songs in drag for the very first time to his shows in New Orleans.
Bring Down The House, 2019 – ongoing
Web-series (Season 1: 10 episodes), post-production.
Produced by PurpleDragons
Function: Showrunner
Set in the 90s, a young woman opens a club with male dancers, opinionated staff, and incorrigible guests in the poshest area of Oslo, Norway. What can go wrong?
Dandelion Sisters / Løvetannsøstre, 2023
Documentary film and installation
Function: Director and cinematographer
Screened: Nordic / Docs 2023 and WENIFF 2024.
Produced during a period of one year as a result of the strict steps governments in many countries implemented in February – June 2020. The project tells a story of friendship. The finished film will be distributed online. It’s a collaboration with The National Library of Norway.
Raspberry1508™, 2023
Feature film, sci-fi/drama
Produced by PurpleDragons
Function: Director and DOP
“Welcome to the MetaMorph Clinic, where happiness is within reach for all.”
Set in the near future, we meet Raspberry1508, her roommate Mango2203, their doctor, and fellow clients in a wonderful spa called MetaMorph Clinic. They are all members of a society that wants everyone to become The Perfect Human to experience Total Happiness. The MetaMorph pampers the most willing subjects into perfection. But something isn’t right…
Ikke synd på mamma, 2022 – ongoing
Short film for children, post-production.
Produced by PurpleDragons
Function: DOP
A teenage girl Louise tries to navigate her life as her narcissistic mother manipulates her. Louise finds comfort in unconventional places and people.
Vi er alle Rwandere – fra folkemord til fornektelse, 2022
Documentary film
Directed by Karoline Frogner and Emanuel Frogner
Function: Cinematographer
When Karoline traveled to Rwanda for the first time in 2012 and interviewed survivors of the genocide in Rwanda, she started on a long journey to document and tell the stories of the people she met there, and later the challenges she faced in Norway.
Da Kvinnen Kom til Verden / Misogyny, 2020
Short animation film
Directed by Anne Kjersti Bjørn
Function: Co-producer and Cinematographer
Screened: The Norwegian Short Film Festival 2023.
In «Mosogyny» we meet Sofia and Clara after their participation in the demonstration «Slutwalk». The Film’s main and larger than life Characters Eva and Simone de Beauvoir are horrified that the young women call themselves «Bitch» and «Slut» both in the manner and on their demo banners. Eva invites Sofia and Clara to a mythical lesson and brings them to Olympen one of Oslos oldest bars where they meet the Greek gods and the myths about « The Expulsion from Paradise», «Pandoras Box» and «The Apple of Contention». René Descartes has lost his body and is a patient of Sigmund Freud. Adam arrives and Eva has an unexpected surprise.
Magic Number Twelve, 2019
Short film
Produced by PurpleDragons
Function: Scriptwriter and Director
It’s a summer holiday, and a young woman visits her older sister. One of them has tragic news to share but don’t know how to. They discover it’s difficult to communicate when they belong in different realities.
Magic Number Twelve is a short film that questions how people perceive reality and how to know when your experience is real.
Hode, skulder, kne og tå, 2019
Short film
Director: Camilla Roman
Function: Cinematographer
Screened: BridgeFest, Point Of View Indie Film Awards, Accord Cine Fest, Grønnskjerm in Oslo.
Two fathers meet while waiting for their children’s teacher. They discover things the didn’t know about each other and the situation becomes awkward. Hode, skulder, kne og tå is a short film about prejudices.
A place in the sun, 2017
Short film
Produced by PurpleDragons
Function: Scriptwriter and Director
Screened: German United Film Festival
In a city that could be almost anywhere in the world, a young girl has to leave the apartment where she has stayed for the last weeks. Trying to find a place to stay for the night, Kim calls several friends but nobody wants to help her out.
In a park, she meets Soraya, an older homeless woman. She offers Kim a solution.
Ei Natt / A Night, 2017
Short film
Produced by PurpleDragons
Function: Cinematographer
Screened: Festival de Alicante, FINCORTEX, TOMA. Bought by NFI for filmbib.no.
A Night is a dark and claustrophobic short film that borders on art film. The story is built up non-chronologically with small pieces of the protagonist’s journey. The filmmaker wants to convey how a crisis leads to people fleeing in desperation, far away from the conflict as quickly as possible, without time to plan or think about the consequences. The consequences of running neck overhead into the unknown are revealed gradually as time goes by.
Locking doors, hiding and refinding keys, 2013
Installation with 3 experimental videos
Directed by Elisabeth Werp
Function: Co-director, Cinematographer and Editor
Screened: Stenersenmuseet, Blaafarveverket og utendørs i Firenze.
Locking doors, hiding, and refinding keys consists of three experimental films that shows fragments of conversations, images, faces, birds, performance, water, snow, and abandoned buildings.
How close is close enough?, 2012
Installation with film, lights and origami flowers.
In collaboration with Viviann Alexandra Knutsen
Personal, close-up stories tend to touch us. But how close is close enough, and how does it affect us when we are served people’s personal pain and sufferings straight in the face?
Ekko, 2008
Short experimental film
Directed by Elisabeth Werp
Function: Co-director, Cinematographer and Editor
Screened: Stenersenmuseet, Galleri Trafo.
Locking doors, hiding, and refinding keys consists of three experimental films that show fragments of conversations, images, faces, birds, performance, water, snow, and abandoned buildings.
Børre og Mona, 2006
Short documentary
Co-director, Cinematographer, and Editor
In collaboration with Odd-Geir Sæther
Screened: Klingeberg kino, dagbladet.no.
“Børre og Mona” is a short documentary about sweethearts with a dog, Odd-Geir photographed on the streets of Oslo in 1997. 9 years later we try to find them again. This is the story of what happened to Børre and Mona.