Bjørn Melhus

Bjørn Melhus op IFFR

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  The Oral Thing

  • main programme short

  Bjørn Melhus | 9' | Germany | -

  Drawing on the often inane and repetitive nature of daytime television, Melhus creates complex, almost surreal scenarios that parody the formats of TV religious programs,…

• Jenny Scene (Auto Center Drive)

  • main programme short

  Bjørn Melhus | 4' | Germany | -

  see: The Oral Thing

• Auto Center Drive

  • IFFR+

  Bjørn Melhus | 28' | Germany | -

  An essay on the impact of icons who died young, such as James Dean and Janis Joplin, on American society. How a people is lulled…
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  Das Zauberglas

  • IFFR+

  Bjørn Melhus | 6' | Germany | -

  A look at subjectivity in media culture. On watching and being watched in a television society. Based on Broken Arrow, a novel from the 1950s.

• Weit weit weg

  • IFFR+

  Bjørn Melhus | 39' | Germany | -

  A girl tries to create her doppelganger using her mobile telephone after seeing something like this on TV. It turns out to be harder than…
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  Afterlife

  • IFFR+

  Bjørn Melhus | 7' | Germany | -

  The beauty of death captured by highly appropriate camerawork. The freedom of the afterlife. Not only legends are eternalised by death.
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  I’m Not the Enemy

  • IFFR+

  Bjørn Melhus | 14' | Germany | -

  What changes in the lives of soldiers returning home after a war? For those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, ‘home’ means ‘hell’.