Archive of films My Body / Kroppen min

Norway
2002, 26 min

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2003

In an effort to explore her identity, the director strips for the camera and engages in a courageous and supremely candid dialogue with her own body on the theme of imperfection.

Synopsis

A supremely intimate dialogue between the director and her body in the form of ameditation on inferiority complexes which essentially demonises the health problems that accompanied her childhood. Her non-narcissistic commentary, replete with irony and humour, underscores this highly functional half-hour carnival of images of a body viewed from different angles and distances.

About the director

Margreth Olin (b. 1970, Stranda, Norway) studied media in Bergen, Volda and Oslo, and after a few documentary shorts shot In the House of Angels in 1998, a feature-length doc domestically awarded Best Documentary. Filmography: In the House of Love (I kjærleikens hus, 1994), My Uncle (Onkel Reidar, 1997), In the House of Angels (Dei mjuke hendene, 1998), Gluttony (Fråtseri) – part of the series The 7 Deadly Sins (De 7 dødssyndene, 2000), My Body (Kroppen min, 2002).

Contacts

Speranza Films AS
P.O.Box 619 Sentrum, 0106, Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47 95 240 418
Fax: +47 66 917 043
E-mail: [email protected]

Norwegian Film Institute
Box 482 Sentrum, 0105, Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47 224 745 00
Fax: +47 224 745 97
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.nfi.no

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section:	Documentary Films - Competition

Director:	Margreth Olin
Screenplay:	Margreth Olin
Dir. of Photography:	Kim Hiorthøy
Music:	Kim Hiorthøy, Morten Abel, Midnight Choir, Anneli Drecker
Editor:	Helge Billing
Producer:	Thomas Robsahm
Production:	Speranza Films AS
Contact:	Speranza Films AS, Norwegian Film Institute

www:	www.speranza.no/films/kroppen

Guests

Stine Oppegaard

Film Institution Rep.