Aaaand I’m back!
It’s been a while, unfortunately! I’ve been quite busy and have been doing a lot during the last 5 or 6 weeks. But things are moving quickly, so let’s not dwell and dive straight into what’s new.
In the middle of January I went to Gothenberg along with my film school class and my girlfriend to the Göteborg International Film Festival – saw a LOT of films, and it was a great week both for networking as well as taking some time off from school. I saw a whole bunch of films the few days I spent at the festival, around twenty or so, spread out evenly over both short and feature films. Some highlights from the festival:
Feature films
- 127 Hours - Finally got around to see this hell of a movie by director Danny Boyle – the so-called action-film where the main character can’t move. A great film which tells a fascinating story in an explosive way!
- Curling – A french/canadian drama/thriller set in a remote location using mainly locked-off tripod shots. A cool, sweet and sometimes scary film which was cool from a DP point-of-view more than anything. Fun that the director, Denis Côté, was at the screening with us.
- Odjuret – or “Savage” as it’s called in English, is the latest film project by the Malmö-based production company Dansk Skalle. Immediately after walking out from the film I really found it to be a bit of a disaster, but it’s grown on me (slightly). Good editing by friend Erik Bäfving though!
Short films
- Tvillingen – by far the best and sweetest film I saw at the film festival. It was also the last film I saw before traveling back to Malmö, so a good ending to a great week. This Swedish short was both mindblowing vfx-wise and a very interesting story.
- As – Another film I didn’t really like walking out from it, as it seemed to (similar to many other festival films) use graphic violence and sex for shock factor. But it’s very, very, well shot and extremely unnerving.
- Top Dog – One of the diploma films from the Göteborg Film University. A fun concept centered around childishness around war, set in Sweden. Some really fun characters and an engaging story – and, as is the case with many film school films, very beautiful.
After returning from the festival, school work quickly continued. As of now we’re currently on a documentary period. I haven’t really shot a whole bunch of proper documentaries before – mainly video diaries from trips in different countries. A few weeks ago we shot a small portraiture exercise, which basically means trying to portray a person we knew using visual means. It was the first film I’ve directed at Skurup for quite some time, and I think it turned out pretty good. Big thanks to my great DP Linus Rockström, my editor Selina Håkansson (who also helped out a lot on Harry Spexter) as well as Simon Minô who starred in the film. We decided early on to try and avoid shooting classical interview-style of Simon and portray his interest in music in another way, and hopefully (while possibly missing the mark a bit) we succeeded in at least some manner:
Since that was just an exercise in shooting documentary-style (even if we made it into sort of a fictional piece), we have now moved on to working on our larger documentary projects, still featuring the same theme but dragged out to reach 10 minutes running time. After some debating in our group at school, we’ve started out quite late with shooting the film, so hopefully we’ll be done on time. Soon heading out to shoot a big bunch of cutaways and similar for the film at the new, quite futuristic, Malmö Central Station.
I’ve started to work on a whole bunch of projects at the side of doing school work – first off, I’m still finalizing my love story script which I’m hopefully set to shoot during the upcoming summer – sending around a few drafts around these weeks to get some feedback, but hopefully I’ll be able to make the film around 15 minutes long and submit it to film festivals and similar – another reason is to ensure easier viewing on the internet, as the audience attention span is highly likely to be a bit lower on the tubes. Harry Spexter is moving closer to it’s DVD and Blu-Ray release, which should probably happen in just a few weeks. Finalizing the DVD with menus and special features during the next week.
Doing some pre-production work for a feature film I’ll be working on this summer and autumn as well – loads of work coming up soon I can imagine! But fun work, so no big deal!
Oh, and for some other stuff I’m working on at the moment – I’m shooting quite a lot of small event films. About 10 days ago I shot at a place called meClub here in Malmö and edited a small video they could put on their Facebook page. Check it out below:
And that’s pretty much all I have for you today! Check back soon for more updates, and take care!
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