Portrait Bjørn Melhus

Su, November 11 8:30 pm CinemaxX 3 Guests: Bjørn Melhus, Birgit Hein

Ich weiß nicht, wer das ist!
Director: Bjørn Melhus, D 1991, 3 min, Video



This early work is an early Melhus Single Channel film, combining various language shreds from TV and a self-portrait.


Das Zauberglas
Director: Bjørn Melhus, D 1991, 6 min, Video, colour and sw



Shaving in front of a television a man gets in a repeating dialogue with his real life self and his inaccessible female counterpart behind the glass.


Blue Moon
Director: Bjørn Melhus, D 1997, 6 min, Video, colour



Melhus arranges a cross-cultural exchange: the European pop figures, the Smurfs, meet Elvis Presley – Elvis acoustically, the Smurfs visually.


Out of The Blue
Director: Bjørn Melhus, D 1997, 4 min, Video, colour



A masked person stands in front of a board and tells about his personal history, work and motivation as part of the first TV generation.


No Sunshine
Director: Bjørn Melhus, D 1997, 6 min, Video, colour



Two pairs of genderless twins communicate through the fragments of the title song. This film, playing with video clip aesthetics, is about the self and the other.


The Oral Thing
Director: Bjørn Melhus, D 2001, 8 min, Video, colour



Here Bjørn Melhus has a critical look at American talkshows, including pseudo-religiousness, exhibitionism and demigod presenters.


Weit, weit weg
Director: Bjørn Melhus, D 1998, 39 min, 16mm, colour



The protagonist Dorothy tries to get in contact with her medial counterpart. Contemplation on sexual identity and the TV as a narcistic mirror.


Auto Center Drive
Director: Bjørn Melhus, D 2003, 25 min, 16mm, ´colour



On various narrative platforms we see the becomming and dissappearing of the self by the impact of media.



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