ARTISTIC

Images of you

2023, 14:30 min

Original title: Bilder av dig

Kalaallisut: Illit Assiutit

Spoken language: DA

Subs: EN – SE – KL

World premiere January 28th 2023

Gothenburg International Film Festival

Can you talk with your grandmother about colonialism? Louise’s grandparents moved to Nuuk in the 1960s, at a time when the Danish government tried to “danify” the Inuit people. As Danish school teachers, they were promised a generous salary and exciting adventures. Grandmother Bodil’s images show happy children and beautiful nature, but Louise becomes aware of a story outside of the family archive.

Director/producer: Louise Hollerup

Co-producer: Inuk Jørgensen

Official selection: Gothenburg International Filmfestival (WORLD PREMIERE), Tempo Documentary Filmfestival, DocLounge Locals, Frame Filmfestival, Uppsala Short Film Festival, Umeå Festival, Nuuk International Filmfestival, Tromsø International Filmfestival (INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE)

WINNER: DOCLOUNGE BEST DOCUMENTARY Frame Filmfestival 2023

Digital distribution: Folkets Bio, VOD Sweden : WATCH NOW (Sweden only)

With support from: the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, City of Gothenburg & Filmcloud

Arctic Love Parade

2021, 15 min

GRADUATION PROJECT MFA FILM, HDK-VALAND

Official selection Nuuk International Filmfestival 2021

Have you met the Danes who fell in love with Greenland? In Arctic Love Parade, Danes who have lived in Greenland exhibit their Arctic souvenirs. The objects become a starting point for a reflection on colonial dynamics. Where do we draw the line between love, desire and objectification in colonial relations?

Graduation project from MFA Film, HDK-Valand in collaboration with ANIDOX:LAB, the Danish Filminstitute and Danmark på Film

The Merman / Sjömannen

2020, 1:40 min. Experimental

Exhibition photo (2nd photo in roll) by Gustav Lejelind

Alone in the lake. It is nice and quiet. Most of the time…

The Merman is a experimental film that imagines the life of a merman. The film is inspired by the French composer Michel Chion’s idea that in film, “there is no soundtrack” (Audio-Vision, 1994) – instead, Chion thinks sound and image catalyses into new meanings along the vertical dimension of a timeline.

Project made at HDK-Valand. Exhibited on Gothenburg Art Museum November 7th-8th 2020. Watch on Vimeo

Här i sjön är det lugnt och skönt.

Det är inte mycket folk här. Härligt!

Fast ibland känns det så konstigt…

Hairy Stories Trilogy

GRADUATION PROJECT MSC VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

www.hairy-stories.com

What do you do to your body hair, and what does your body hair do to you? Three short films about body hair, produced 2016-2018.

Part 1: True Body, 2016. 5:14 min. In True Body we filmmakers explore the culture that sticks to our own skin. We attempt to break the boundary of our own intimate through a performative shaving, asking the question: How does my “true body” really look like?

Louise Hollerup, Shannon Turner and Maja Byriel. Eye & Mind, Laboratory for Visual Anthropology

Part 2: Body Hair, 2017. 15:51 min. Body Hair explores women’s lived relationship to body hair in a politically tense world. We meet women in Palestine who help each other with hair removal in their homes. The film shows how body hair removal can be a social activity and gives the viewer access to a closed, female space, where women help each other to become beautiful in the eyes of society.

Louise Hollerup and Yasmin Zaher. Aarhus Filmworkshop and Filmlab Palestine.

Part 3: Salon, 2018. 6 min. Salon explores the material dimension of body hair removal in a beauty salon in Aarhus. How is intimacy dealt with in a capitalistic context with focus on production?

Louise Hollerup. Eye & Mind, Laboratory for Visual Anthropology

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