Jauja Q&A at Cinemateket, Copenhagen
Director Lisandro Alonso, actor Viggo Mortensen and actress Viilbjørk Malling Agger discuss their film ’Jauja’ (2014) at Cinemateket, Copenhagen, on May 12th 2015.
Lisandro Alonso talks about his intuitive way of filmmaking, about researching by travelling and observing people – and about contacting Viggo Mortensen on a strategically bad day. The director also talks about his inspiration for ‘Jauja’ coming from real events in Manila, about his working relationship with poet Fabián Casas, and about filmmaking as a team effort. Surprises include Lisandro Alonso choosing the title for the film just weeks before the premiere, the film’s Kaurismäki connection (cinematographer Timo Salminen), and about the film’s unusual ratio (1,33:1) stemming from purely technical needs. In the course of the Q&A, Lisandro Alonso recognises an actor from the film, Brian Patterson, in the audience – and Alonso turns out to actually speak some Danish. He ends the Q&A with a standing toast.
Viggo Mortensen talks about the film team’s ‘Jauja Magical Mystery Tour’ through Denmark, and about etymological and cultural roots of the name ‘Jauja’, a promised land where work is forbidden and the streets are paved with sausages (comparable to the notion of ‘Greenland’ in European history). He also talks about artistic self-respect, about directors too rarely allowing their works to speak for themselves, and about his character in the film, Captain Dinesen, who speaks lousy Spanish (a loan from Mortensen’s father) and spontaneously exclaims “Lorteland!” (“what a shitty country!”). He smilingly describes audiences experiencing ‘Jauja’ very differently – the Danish mentality being “a mix of pride and clumsiness”, whereas Argentine audiences are more arrogant, Francophile and “focused on dinner”.
Viilbjørk Malling Agger talks jokingly about working with such “big egos” and about shooting in Denmark’s countryside as well as different places in Patagonia.
The film screening and extended Q&A was part of a Lisandro Alonso retrospective and arranged in collaboration with CPH PIX.
The Q&A was moderated by programmer Rasmus Brendstrup, filmed by Estel, and supplemented with still photos by Jacob Hansen. Edited by Jan Fredslund and Rasmus Brendstrup. All rights reserved © Kamoli Films and Cinemateket.
JAUJA Q&A Cinemateket Copenhagen 12.05.2015 (part 1/4)
JAUJA Q&A Cinemateket Copenhagen 12.05.2015( part 1/4)
with Viggo Mortensen, Lisandro Alonso and Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Kihoskh Copenhagen
A short video of a recent visit to Kihoskh in Copenhagen. Best beer-celler in northern Europe.
Cirkelbroen under way Copenhagen 18 March
Debate on Basic Income with Philippe Van Parijs at Cinemateket, Copenhagen, Nov 2, 2013
Following a showing of the Swiss film Grundeinkommen (Basisindkomst), professor Philippe Van Parijs, Université catholique de Louvain, presented some of his ideas about Unconditional Basic Income in a philosophical symposium titled Basic Income and Social Justice with the participation of honorary professor of political science Robert van der Veen and associate professor of political science Søren Midtgaard, Aarhus University. This is an excerpt from the debate. Moderator is former associate professor Erik Christensen.
Casper Blanca - Mother Nature's Son (Acoustic Live Performance from Cinemateket, Oslo)
Casper Blanca - Mother Nature's Son (Acoustic Live Performance from Cinemateket, Oslo, Fender CP-140SE)
Live at FilmKaffeen, Cinemateket Oslo
Music is written by the Oslo-Based Singer-Songwriter, Casper Blanca, from Copenhagen, Denmark. Influenced by songs such as John Mayer “Go Easy on Me”, Elliott Smith “Easy Way Out”, Toby Johnson Sleepy Head, Daniel Norgren “Worthless”, Jonas Alaska “If Only As a Ghost”, Rayland Baxter “Bad Things”, Sean Lennon “Tomorrow”, David Ryan Harris “For You”, Malin Pettersen “Pause”, Benjamin Aggerbæk “A Fool”.
Casper Blanca - Trophies in a Box (Acoustic Live Performance from Cinemateket, Oslo)
Casper Blanca - Trophies in a Box (Acoustic Live Performance from Cinemateket, Oslo)
Live at Filmkafeen, Cinemateket Oslo
Played on a Fender CP-140SE
Music is written by the Oslo-Based Singer-Songwriter, Casper Blanca, from Copenhagen, Denmark. Influenced by songs such as John Mayer “Go Easy on Me”, Elliott Smith “Easy Way Out”, Toby Johnson Sleepy Head, Daniel Norgren “Worthless”, Jonas Alaska “If Only As a Ghost”, Rayland Baxter “Bad Things”, Sean Lennon “Tomorrow”, David Ryan Harris “For You”, Malin Pettersen “Pause”, Benjamin Aggerbæk “A Fool”.
Courage - Journalism is not a crime, premiere
Premiere of Danish investigative journalist Tom Heinemann's new documentary, Courage - Journalism is not a crime at Cinemateket in Copenhagen, Denmark on 3. May 2018, World Press Freedom Day. The stars of the film are Lawi Weng from Myanmar, Erdem Gül from Turkey and Emin Huseynov and his brother Mehman Huseynov from Azerbaijan.
The video includes footage from the premiere, including of director Tom Heinemann, Secretary General of Amnesty International Denmark, Trine Christensen, and Gulnara Akhundora from International Media Support.
ST Lawrence
St Lawrence er navnet på et skib, som husede jødiske flygtninge mellem 1969-1971. I Københavns havn er der netop lagt en mindesteen om begivenhederne.
Drs. Iversen & Mortensen of Denmark discuss Ziegenbalg
In this film clip, Dr Viggo Mortensen from the University of Aarhus, and Dr Hans Raun Iversen of the University of Copenhagen explain something of the brilliance and courage of the young missionary who was sent to India by the King of Denmark in 1706
Joshua Oppenheimer Interview: Making the Invisible Visible
You have to find the traces of fear and silence that are visible, whether it's in the furrow of someone's brow or in the water as it flows down an aging torso. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer talks about the making of his beautiful and hair-raising Oscar-nominated documentaries.
While Oppenheimer’s two most-well known films focus on perpetrators living with impunity, his work generally centres on questions of the nature of being and time, an interest that led him to study theoretical physics and cosmology as a young man. “Gradually I discovered that these were philosophical questions – not precisely physical questions, but metaphysical questions.” Filmmaking, for Oppenheimer, is a way of continuing this exploration of how we experience the world, an attempt at creating a “life practice” that examines how we perceive and feel ourselves in the universe.
In the Oscar-nominated film ‘The Act of Killing’ (2012) Oppenheimer challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to restage their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish. Oppenheimer explains: “These performances of the present day lies, fantasies, stories, scripts that the perpetrators tell themselves so they can live with themselves” are what make up the film and become the basis of what the director sees as a new approach to non-fiction filmmaking in which everything is simultaneously real and fictional.
Joshua Oppenheimer (b. 1974) is an American producer and director, who has studied at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts as well as Central Saint Martins in London. Oppenheimer has been Oscar-nominated twice – for ‘The Act of Killing’ (2012) and ‘The Look of Silence’ (2014). For these two documentaries he has furthermore received several prestigious awards including a Panorama Audience Award, the European Film Award for Best Documentary, a Robert Award, a BAFTA for Best Documentary, the Grand Jury Prize at the 71st Venice International Film Festival and the International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI). Other movies include ‘The Globalization Tapes’ (2003) and ‘The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase’ (1998). He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Joshua Oppenheimer was interviewed by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærksen at Cinemateket in Copenhagen, Denmark in April 2016.
Camera: Simon Weyhe
Produced and edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016
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Joshua Oppenheimer Interview: Advice to the Young
“Don’t listen to anyone who tells you how it should be done.” The commended American director Joshua Oppenheimer – nominated twice for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature – here shares his powerful advice for aspiring filmmakers.
Oppenheimer continues by arguing that you should, however, take as much advice as you can from people, who understand your vision – don’t simply keep it to yourself: “You as a filmmaker need to communicate your vision to everyone you work with.” Dig deep into what it is that fascinates you, and explore that story – the element of exploration is what it’s all about: “If you know the story before you start, you shouldn’t make the film.”
Joshua Oppenheimer (b. 1974) is an American producer and director, who has studied at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts as well as Central Saint Martins in London. Oppenheimer has been Oscar-nominated twice – for ‘The Act of Killing’ (2012) and ‘The Look of Silence’ (2014). For these two documentaries he has furthermore received several prestigious awards including a Panorama Audience Award, the European Film Award for Best Documentary, a Robert Award, a BAFTA for Best Documentary, the Grand Jury Prize at the 71st Venice International Film Festival and the International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI). Other movies include ‘The Globalization Tapes’ (2003) and ‘The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase’ (1998). He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Joshua Oppenheimer was interviewed by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærksen at Cinemateket in Copenhagen, Denmark in April 2016.
Camera: Simon Weyhe
Produced and edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016
Q&A w/ Fred Kelemen about Verhängnis [Fate] @ CPH:PIX (April 28th, 2012) (Part 1/2)
German film director Fred Kelemen participates in a Q&A session after a screening of his 1994 film Verhängnis aka Fate. Recorded @ Cinemateket in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 28th, 2012. Kelemen is best know for his cinematography in the Béla Tarr movies The Man from London (2007) and The Turin Horse (2011). Watch part two of the session here:
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Viggo Mortensen receives Danish honorary movie award
A slightly nervous Viggo Mortensen receives the Danish honorary movie award the Bodil.
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Joshua Oppenheimer Interview: Why Do We Watch Non-Fiction?
Watch Joshua Oppenheimer – the director behind award-winning documentaries such as ‘The Act of Killing’ and ‘The Look of Silence’ – comment on non-fiction’s power to intervene by presenting a different story than the official one.
“Power tells a story justifying itself.” The structure of power and the injustices that surround us have become so naturalised, that “feeling powerless is shameful. Particularly in a democracy where you’re supposed to collectively have power over the destiny of your community.” We have gotten so used to cheap and constant lies that the response to this feeling of powerlessness can go two ways: one can become cynical or apathetic. Non-fiction, however, can turn official accounts upside-down, and is thereby an important factor in making people feel that they can regain a sense of control over their own destiny as well as the future of society.
Joshua Oppenheimer (b. 1974) is an American producer and director, who has studied at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts as well as Central Saint Martins in London. Oppenheimer has been Oscar-nominated twice – for ‘The Act of Killing’ (2012) and ‘The Look of Silence’ (2014). For these two documentaries he has furthermore received several prestigious awards including a Panorama Audience Award, the European Film Award for Best Documentary, a Robert Award, a BAFTA for Best Documentary, the Grand Jury Prize at the 71st Venice International Film Festival and the International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI). Other movies include ‘The Globalization Tapes’ (2003) and ‘The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase’ (1998). He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Joshua Oppenheimer was interviewed by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærksen at Cinemateket in Copenhagen, Denmark in April 2016.
Camera: Simon Weyhe
Produced and edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016
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Q&A w/ Fred Kelemen about Verhängnis [Fate] @ CPH:PIX (April 28th, 2012) (Part 2/2)
German film director Fred Kelemen participates in a Q&A session after a screening of his 1994 film Verhängnis aka Fate. Recorded @ Cinemateket in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 28th, 2012. Kelemen is best know for his cinematography in the Béla Tarr movies The Man from London (2007) and The Turin Horse (2011). Watch part one of the session here:
Q&A w/ Fred Kelemen about Abendland [Nightfall] @ CPH:PIX (April 27th, 2012)
German film director Fred Kelemen participates in a short Q&A session after a screening of his 1999 film Abendland aka Nightfall. Recorded @ Cinemateket in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 27th, 2012. Kelemen is best know for his cinematography in the Béla Tarr movies The Man from London (2007) and The Turin Horse (2011).
Re-Animator Q&A with Brian Yuzna - Blodig Weekend 2015
Re Animator Q&A Brian Yuzna - Blodig Weekend 2015
Recorded at Cinemateket, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 November 2015
Note: There's some short missing parts in this that happened when my phone reached the time limit and when I ran out of HDD space. Sorry about that
Q&A with Leena Yadav
Q&A with Leena Yadav, Director PARCHED in CINEMATEKET, Copenhagen Denmark on 12th May 2017