Louise Hollerup is an independent filmmaker based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She holds an MFA in Film at HDK-Valand and an M.Sc. with specialisation in Visual Anthropology from Eye & Mind Laboratory, Aarhus University.
Her newest film, Images of you (2023), had its world premiere on Gothenburg International Film Festival 2023. Other projects include Arctic Love Parade (2021), Hairy Stories Trilogy (2016-2018) and Kikkut Qallunaajuppat? Who Are the Danes? (2016).
Approach
I’m interested in exploring the absurdities of Western culture. So I reverse the ethnographic gaze of curiosity towards ourselves as cultural beings.
Across the topics I’ve worked with – female body hair, Nordic colonialism and now at latest, psychiatric care – there is a common interest in re-narrating the story from an uncommon and maybe even unexpected point of view.
– Louise Hollerup
Culture is embodied in you and me, and the works have surfaced from my own lived experience. From anthropology I bring an attentivesness to the cultural patterns we live in. From filmmaking I get the tools to question them.
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