Bjørn Melhus Movies
- 2023
Piaffe
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When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create...
- 2015
Freedom & Independence
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Against the backdrop of an unfathomable megalopolis, in a story that follows the associative qualities of a dream logic, the protagonists quote from...
- 1989
Ultima Thule
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Although photographer Horn has been back from Scotland for a while, he still has to think about his irritating and fleeting encounter with a stranger...
- 1970
Toast
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Toast, buttered or not, is an example of commodification of food. Symbolic of a society where time is money, the toaster allows for instant...
- 1995
Far Far Away
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With her green bow in her hair, a naïve Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz embodies an aspect of the artist’s own personal context. She is...
- 2019
The End Time
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“The End Time” was developed for the exhibition Spectral Afterlives at Sprengel Museum Hannover on occasion of the publication of...
- 2013
Sudden Destruction
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An exorcist ritual in a hotel room at night falling on Which a spasm-ridden medium predicts "sudden destruction".
- 1990
America Sells
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- 2019
SUGAR
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In a post-apocalyptic world not dissimilar to the present, SUGAR, a humanoid robot that can feel, think and dance, is sent out to bring a human touch...
- 2024
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The film [dramatic music continues], which uses subtitles of audio descriptions from various war films, is a reflection on our current media...
- 2023
HOMESICK
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- 2023
Resolution
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Referencingthe death scene of Sol Roth, played by Edward G. Robinson, in the 1973 movie Soylent Green, and old man on a hospital bed moves through an...
- 2011
Das Badezimmer
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In reference to the trailer of Psycho (USA 1960), narrated in German by Alfred Hitchcock himself, a gardener with a chainsaw guides us through the...
- 2019
Doors of Reception
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Doors of Reception is a collage of door sounds from various science fiction films, creating an abstract sound painting of opening and closing colour...
- 1997
No Sunshine
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A short story about new bodies, the power of denial, and a state of no sunshine. Two infantile bodies float in a cyberspace ball, connected by two...
- 1998
AGAIN AND AGAIN
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In the video installation “Again & Again” Melhus tells—not without humor—the story of a person engaged in an inner dialogue...
- 1991
Ich weiss nicht, wer das ist
Ich weiss nicht, wer das ist01991HD
- 1987
Cornflakes
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