WEBVTT 00:00:00.764 --> 00:00:18.812 ..:: Presented by ZarFilm website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:00:23.850 --> 00:00:30.455 It's kind of a collage where I play different roles. 00:00:30.494 --> 00:00:34.506 A bit like "Orlando". Did you see the film with Tilda Swinton? 00:00:34.545 --> 00:00:38.296 It's about breaking loose from the roles we 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:42.071 enter and allow ourselves to get trapped in. 00:00:42.110 --> 00:00:44.030 Especially as a woman. 00:00:45.911 --> 00:00:49.905 It's a ritual. You enter the roles, cleanse yourself of them, 00:00:49.943 --> 00:00:53.802 and transcend to a higher level with more freedom, 00:00:53.841 --> 00:00:58.679 where you're not as trapped by these stereotypes. 00:00:58.718 --> 00:01:02.385 I'm working on a musical. 00:01:02.423 --> 00:01:05.188 - Do you remember? - Mm. 00:01:07.070 --> 00:01:10.199 Yeah, you mentioned that. Is it being made now? 00:01:10.238 --> 00:01:12.868 - No, we're still in the idea phase. - Right. 00:01:12.906 --> 00:01:20.394 The idea is making a musical about miners on Svalbard. 00:01:20.433 --> 00:01:26.442 - A musical about miners on Svalbard? - Yes. It sounds so cool. 00:01:26.481 --> 00:01:30.167 Yes, really cool. I've never heard of anything like it. 00:01:30.206 --> 00:01:35.198 Anyhow, I also want the extras to be filming. 00:01:35.735 --> 00:01:43.396 The movie will be based on them and the miners, played by actors. 00:01:43.434 --> 00:01:45.450 Sort of. 00:01:45.489 --> 00:01:50.558 You have one film set with extras filming actors playing miners? 00:01:51.076 --> 00:01:54.954 Right, but also the miners. 00:01:54.993 --> 00:01:58.948 - Kind of meta? - Yes, to put it mildly. 00:01:58.986 --> 00:02:04.727 But eventually, the miners 00:02:04.766 --> 00:02:09.354 start talking to the extras, 00:02:09.393 --> 00:02:13.194 to find out which world they're actually living in. 00:02:13.233 --> 00:02:16.305 At which point they go on strike. 00:02:16.343 --> 00:02:22.026 Because they want to talk to the actual director, played by me. 00:02:22.065 --> 00:02:24.004 Well, of course! 00:02:24.042 --> 00:02:29.572 When I walk in, they're surprised 00:02:29.610 --> 00:02:34.545 by me having Down's syndrome, and in a political sense... 00:02:37.214 --> 00:02:40.420 - That's the idea, anyway. - In which way is this political? 00:02:40.458 --> 00:02:46.103 Because someone like me, with Down's syndrome, can make a movie this good. 00:02:48.772 --> 00:02:49.866 Cool. 00:02:49.905 --> 00:02:57.316 Eventually, there's a jacuzzi scene where I walk in, arm in arm with these... 00:02:57.354 --> 00:03:00.407 You end up arm in arm with the actors, in the jacuzzi? 00:03:00.446 --> 00:03:06.954 We eventually finish the movie, but then the actors want to... 00:03:06.993 --> 00:03:10.871 They make intrigue because they're falling for me. 00:03:10.910 --> 00:03:16.689 - They all fall for you? - Yes, which leads to a lot of intrigue. 00:03:16.727 --> 00:03:22.487 Just make sure it doesn't end up more self-centered than political. 00:03:22.526 --> 00:03:27.383 - Yes, I want it mostly political. - I agree. 00:03:30.378 --> 00:03:32.990 Excuse me. 00:03:33.028 --> 00:03:35.121 I'm looking after a cat. 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:39.018 And I've become a little allergic. 00:03:45.470 --> 00:03:48.522 Like when those Syrian refugees came to Norway. 00:03:48.561 --> 00:03:52.343 For two weeks, it's all the rage on Facebook. 00:03:52.382 --> 00:03:57.201 People wear yellow vests and celebrities cook for them. Two weeks later, it's over. 00:03:57.239 --> 00:03:59.716 - Right. Are we ready? - Yes. 00:03:59.754 --> 00:04:01.866 Torvald! Torvald! 00:04:01.905 --> 00:04:04.785 - Let's get moving. - Lots of people? 00:04:04.823 --> 00:04:09.662 Not bad. Could be more, though. Fine-looking audience. 00:04:09.700 --> 00:04:11.486 - All Norwegian? - No, no. 00:04:11.524 --> 00:04:15.210 - This will be nice, don't you think? - I hope so. 00:04:18.186 --> 00:04:21.854 There we are. You're almost up. 00:04:23.178 --> 00:04:27.940 - I have to get it done... - There we are. 00:04:27.978 --> 00:04:33.758 Welcome back to day two of the Norwegian American Culture Festival. 00:04:34.295 --> 00:04:39.268 I'm proud to introduce "Three Colors of Ibsen". 00:04:39.306 --> 00:04:41.663 We would like to thank the Embassy of Norway, 00:04:41.687 --> 00:04:44.068 Visit Norway and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 00:04:49.847 --> 00:04:52.535 Peer, you are lying! 00:04:52.746 --> 00:04:56.490 No, I am not. 00:05:15.767 --> 00:05:23.255 Political change through hair, fluids, skin, weight, smell, orifices 00:05:23.294 --> 00:05:28.209 and nooks, not to mention oral communication. 00:05:28.247 --> 00:05:30.359 Our lips flutter. 00:05:30.398 --> 00:05:37.674 A clear conceptual mentality flows through humanity like a wildfire. 00:05:37.713 --> 00:05:39.594 And there truly is a fire. 00:05:39.633 --> 00:05:44.548 And something in the air suggests change, awakening, or Armageddon. 00:05:51.383 --> 00:05:54.033 There is something deceased about it. 00:05:54.071 --> 00:05:56.822 Reminds me of ball flowers the day after. 00:05:58.469 --> 00:06:00.906 - Hi. Lars. - Gritt. 00:06:00.945 --> 00:06:04.535 Are you also in the program? 00:06:04.574 --> 00:06:08.721 I went to school with some of the people on stage now. 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:13.406 - I see. You're an actor? - Not in that sense. 00:06:14.423 --> 00:06:16.247 I see. 00:06:18.148 --> 00:06:21.066 - What do you do? - You don't know who I am? 00:06:21.105 --> 00:06:24.917 Just kidding. I'm a rapper. 00:06:24.941 --> 00:06:28.650 - I make music. - Right. 00:06:28.689 --> 00:06:31.473 Sometimes I just read my lyrics aloud. 00:06:31.511 --> 00:06:36.369 I've been living abroad for a while. I guess that's why... 00:06:36.407 --> 00:06:39.518 That's fine. Do you live here? 00:06:40.055 --> 00:06:42.302 No. I live in Oslo now. 00:06:42.340 --> 00:06:48.926 So I'm just here as the undercover support person for her. 00:06:48.983 --> 00:06:51.556 You should not laugh at that. 00:06:51.594 --> 00:06:55.550 I mean, of course, when Torvald is no longer as devoted to me as he is now. 00:06:55.588 --> 00:06:58.545 When my dancing no longer brings him joy. 00:06:58.602 --> 00:07:02.212 There are new diversity criteria for cultural exchange. 00:07:02.250 --> 00:07:06.167 So she was brought along as an alibi of sorts for the theatre. 00:07:06.206 --> 00:07:11.159 What does an "undercover support person" do? 00:07:11.198 --> 00:07:15.748 She, or Marte, that's her name, has published a number of books, two books, 00:07:15.786 --> 00:07:18.590 with the same publisher as Karl Ove Knausgård. 00:07:18.628 --> 00:07:23.466 She's very capable, so she doesn't accept that she needs a support person. 00:07:23.505 --> 00:07:27.172 The theatre thinks so, but they can't formally require it of her. 00:07:27.210 --> 00:07:30.033 We need to clear this space for the next guest. 00:07:30.071 --> 00:07:32.260 - Sorry... - Anders, can I get you a coffee? 00:07:32.298 --> 00:07:35.966 - That'd be great. Hi, Anders. - Lars. A pleasure. 00:07:36.023 --> 00:07:38.039 I watched your YouTube series... 00:07:38.078 --> 00:07:40.919 - That went great! - Hi, Anders! 00:07:40.958 --> 00:07:44.433 - So good to see you. - You too. Well done! 00:07:44.471 --> 00:07:46.718 - Hi there! - Fancy meeting you here! 00:07:50.193 --> 00:07:51.268 Can I get you anything? 00:07:51.306 --> 00:07:53.956 - You made a movie? - An adaptation of Spring. 00:07:53.994 --> 00:07:56.894 - Have you met Marte? - Hi! Anders T. Andersen. A pleasure. 00:07:56.932 --> 00:08:00.042 - Marte was just on stage. - Hi there! 00:08:00.081 --> 00:08:03.940 - Mattis Hermann Nyquist! - How are you? 00:08:03.978 --> 00:08:08.586 - Petronella! I'll say. - Straight from LA? 00:08:08.625 --> 00:08:15.383 We've actually been in LA... We take an associative approach, so we... 00:08:15.422 --> 00:08:18.069 Crazy to give himself the leading part. 00:08:18.093 --> 00:08:20.951 Is that a personality trait that's not quite... 00:08:20.990 --> 00:08:25.828 I did so many test shoots in those days. I remember our talks, you said: 00:08:25.866 --> 00:08:32.414 "Stop caring about what you believe the casting agent wants. Do your thing!" 00:08:32.452 --> 00:08:34.526 I said that? 00:08:34.564 --> 00:08:37.559 He's gotten old. Still handsome, though. 00:08:37.598 --> 00:08:41.438 - Pity he's not staying in our hotel. - Do you know where he's staying? 00:08:41.975 --> 00:08:47.966 I actually prefer Jo Nesbø. He's so rough and rugged. 00:08:48.004 --> 00:08:51.652 - And his books are so cool. - Right. 00:08:51.690 --> 00:08:55.511 Karl-Ove is more a man of today, in my opinion. 00:08:55.550 --> 00:09:00.311 Lars Vaular has written a commission work: "The Lord's Henchmen". 00:09:00.350 --> 00:09:05.054 Look into your innermost self. Don't search. Just find. 00:09:05.092 --> 00:09:11.025 Let the right come in. Whatever it is, it will turn out to be. 00:09:11.063 --> 00:09:13.770 We are difficult to love. 00:09:13.809 --> 00:09:17.918 - No more spray. - Just a little. Get your crew cut going. 00:09:18.436 --> 00:09:22.718 - Aren't you going out? - I'm cool enough as I am. 00:09:23.236 --> 00:09:29.150 I guess you'll be hanging out with Mattis and those guys again tonight? 00:09:29.188 --> 00:09:33.930 I thought I'd give you some time off, and have a look around 00:09:33.969 --> 00:09:36.646 while you're hanging out with the actors. 00:09:36.670 --> 00:09:38.634 Sounds good. We'll text later. 00:09:38.673 --> 00:09:42.436 So what you're saying, is that having money is good. Why film? 00:09:42.474 --> 00:09:45.476 I read an early essay by Knausgård where he 00:09:45.500 --> 00:09:48.388 claims that literature is the only medium 00:09:48.426 --> 00:09:54.244 with the potential of accurately describing the processes of the soul. 00:09:54.282 --> 00:09:56.318 And I wanted to challenge that. 00:09:56.836 --> 00:10:03.575 We have to also be mindful of not becoming too navlebeskuende. 00:10:03.614 --> 00:10:07.799 Of becoming too egocentric about ourselves as creators. 00:10:35.255 --> 00:10:38.442 - Did you ever had your cards read before? - No. 00:10:38.481 --> 00:10:41.246 Don't be scared. 00:10:49.828 --> 00:10:53.630 This looks bad, and... 00:10:53.668 --> 00:10:57.662 It is, and it isn't. Essentially the Tower... 00:10:57.700 --> 00:11:02.308 With the way I like to interpret this card, is that it means that 00:11:02.346 --> 00:11:07.089 you have needed to make a big decision in your life that you're ignoring. 00:11:07.127 --> 00:11:11.946 Which means, you know... If the Tower's on fire, people have to jump out. 00:11:11.985 --> 00:11:14.770 You don't have a choice any more. You have 00:11:14.794 --> 00:11:17.668 to move forward whether you like it or not. 00:11:17.706 --> 00:11:22.372 This is clearly how you feel about it, which is very trapped. 00:11:22.410 --> 00:11:24.254 You're not able to see the way out. 00:11:24.292 --> 00:11:27.917 You need to pay attention to what you really 00:11:27.941 --> 00:11:31.185 want, who you are, to get through this. 00:11:31.223 --> 00:11:36.849 Because this is gonna happen whether you like it or not. It's already happening. 00:11:36.887 --> 00:11:41.591 Pull three pieces out of here. 00:11:44.567 --> 00:11:50.500 It's a crow's foot. It's about omens, about paying attention to messages. 00:11:50.538 --> 00:11:56.894 Your foremothers are trying to give you messages, and you're not paying attention. 00:11:58.007 --> 00:12:02.001 Stand over here with your arms stretched out. 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:05.008 This is sage. It's used to remove negativity 00:12:05.032 --> 00:12:07.492 out of the space and off the person. 00:12:30.570 --> 00:12:34.698 For those of you who haven't done it, maybe watch the pairs that have. 00:12:35.236 --> 00:12:41.226 If you guys line up this way... And be careful for... Just watch for now. 00:12:45.892 --> 00:12:51.844 - Can you face this way, Fabian? - Yeah. 00:12:53.668 --> 00:12:57.642 Now you are the shooter, J.P. Bang! 00:12:59.505 --> 00:13:01.463 Follow him all the way down. 00:13:08.298 --> 00:13:10.833 Come here! 00:13:11.985 --> 00:13:15.038 Will you help me stop this? 00:13:15.575 --> 00:13:17.649 Sure. 00:13:18.724 --> 00:13:20.663 And switch. 00:13:27.172 --> 00:13:29.438 Holy hand. 00:13:29.975 --> 00:13:32.990 Holy heart. 00:13:33.028 --> 00:13:35.754 Holy face. 00:13:52.190 --> 00:13:56.126 - Okay, good! Thank you! - Hi. 00:13:56.164 --> 00:13:59.850 - Thank you for happening to be here. - Thank you. 00:13:59.889 --> 00:14:05.406 As you can see, we hope that somebody helps us stop this violent cycle. 00:14:05.431 --> 00:14:07.480 - It's the whole point of the piece. - Yeah. Right. 00:14:07.505 --> 00:14:10.487 That gives a lot of meaning. 00:14:10.526 --> 00:14:17.226 It's very serendipitous that you're here. We need to rehearse with actual participants. 00:14:17.265 --> 00:14:18.414 Yeah, that's cool. 00:14:18.438 --> 00:14:21.278 Our company is called "The Living Theatre". 00:14:21.796 --> 00:14:25.118 - Really? - Yeah. We're a very old theatre company. 00:14:25.655 --> 00:14:31.473 - Like the old Living Theatre? That's you? - That's us. It's still living! 00:14:31.665 --> 00:14:35.639 This piece here is called "Apokatastasis". 00:14:35.678 --> 00:14:38.446 We're rehearsing to go to this festival this summer 00:14:38.470 --> 00:14:41.073 called "Burning Man" out in the desert. 00:14:41.111 --> 00:14:45.066 Okay! Burning Man? Cool. 00:14:45.105 --> 00:14:49.041 I was 21 and looking at the section "gigs". 00:14:49.079 --> 00:14:51.675 I've been to the gigs section as well. 00:14:51.699 --> 00:14:54.647 They're mostly porn, adult film, auditions. 00:14:54.686 --> 00:14:59.524 I was scrolling through, and saw something that said "The Living Theatre". 00:14:59.562 --> 00:15:05.111 Really shitty porn production company name, so it must be a real theatre. 00:15:05.150 --> 00:15:08.364 It brought me to this essay that Judith had 00:15:08.388 --> 00:15:11.774 written with red letters on black background: 00:15:11.812 --> 00:15:19.454 "There are structures in our mind that create the systems in society." 00:15:19.492 --> 00:15:22.545 "And it's our job as artists to break the structures of the mind 00:15:22.602 --> 00:15:26.462 - to break the systems in society." - Wow. That's so profound. 00:15:26.500 --> 00:15:29.380 THE WHITE INFLAMMATION 00:16:00.791 --> 00:16:03.767 What are you up to now, Gry-Jeanette? Or Gritt? 00:16:03.806 --> 00:16:07.511 Now I'm working on a ritual. 00:16:07.550 --> 00:16:11.562 The aim is to give the paradigm shift we're facing a boost. 00:16:11.601 --> 00:16:16.266 To bury the patriarchy and capitalism. And it will culminate in 00:16:16.305 --> 00:16:21.815 a human chain around the Oslofjord, everybody dressed in white, holding hands. 00:16:21.854 --> 00:16:25.866 I want to visualize the inflammation in our society. 00:16:25.905 --> 00:16:29.726 The Arts Council is processing my application right now, so... 00:16:29.764 --> 00:16:31.761 That's nice. 00:17:04.996 --> 00:17:10.007 As I was going down impassive Rivers, 00:17:10.046 --> 00:17:14.078 I no longer felt myself guided by haulers: 00:17:14.615 --> 00:17:17.802 Yelping redskins had taken them as targets 00:17:17.841 --> 00:17:22.410 And had nailed them naked to colored stakes 00:17:22.449 --> 00:17:26.366 The bearer of Flemish wheat or English cottons, 00:17:26.404 --> 00:17:30.033 I was indifferent to all crews 00:17:30.398 --> 00:17:34.775 When with my haulers this uproar stopped 00:17:34.814 --> 00:17:38.596 The Rivers let me go where I wanted 00:17:38.903 --> 00:17:45.450 To Rimbaud, art was but a means. He wanted to access something far more violent: 00:17:45.489 --> 00:17:47.678 The poem that is life itself. 00:17:48.196 --> 00:17:50.914 Most are content with being artists and 00:17:50.938 --> 00:17:54.090 cultural workers - life in that comfort zone. 00:17:54.129 --> 00:17:59.889 But I think Rimbaud wanted out, and into something far more dangerous: life itself. 00:18:04.881 --> 00:18:09.316 There you are! Hi there, Peaches! 00:18:17.956 --> 00:18:21.143 - Hi there! - She's been staying at a hotel. 00:18:21.182 --> 00:18:24.042 - This looks so cool. - Yeah, it's really nice. 00:18:24.081 --> 00:18:28.574 Many have heard about it, but it's too small for most. The body is so short. 00:18:33.316 --> 00:18:36.561 Want to go out on the balcony? 00:19:45.412 --> 00:19:50.423 Unknown material released when a majority of imaginations meet 00:19:50.462 --> 00:19:53.150 and conjure up something more. 00:19:53.188 --> 00:19:57.278 A third voice or body. 00:19:57.815 --> 00:20:01.339 I wonder if one, as an individual, only has 00:20:01.363 --> 00:20:04.670 access to the unknown through intuition. 00:20:04.708 --> 00:20:07.434 Which, as we know, is rarely used these days. 00:20:07.473 --> 00:20:11.447 Simply because no one knows how to deal with an almost liquid notion. 00:20:11.486 --> 00:20:15.422 Those cherries... Were they discontinued? 00:20:15.460 --> 00:20:18.340 I think so, if we don't have them. 00:20:27.998 --> 00:20:32.798 - I think I'm in a fiction in my life. - You're in a fiction? 00:20:33.316 --> 00:20:36.599 I think I'm in a fiction. Alone in my fear. 00:20:36.638 --> 00:20:40.382 I hurt alone. Not good. 00:20:40.420 --> 00:20:42.321 - Want it? - No, go ahead. 00:20:42.378 --> 00:20:45.124 But you see, I can't really... 00:20:53.890 --> 00:20:57.634 GRANT LIST Ministry of Culture 00:21:15.912 --> 00:21:20.463 - The Arts Council, hello. - Hello. My name is Gritt Dahl. 00:21:20.501 --> 00:21:23.277 I sent in an application for the performance 00:21:23.301 --> 00:21:25.416 project "The White Inflammation". 00:21:25.474 --> 00:21:28.508 Could you give me the grounds for rejection? 00:21:29.045 --> 00:21:32.962 - Would you like to submit a complaint? - No. Just the grounds. 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:35.551 That can be done, but you will have to file 00:21:35.575 --> 00:21:37.916 an application. Please state your name. 00:21:37.973 --> 00:21:41.564 - Gry-Jeanette Dahl.- Dahl... 00:21:42.773 --> 00:21:45.519 - Oh, but there was no rejection. - What? 00:21:45.557 --> 00:21:49.378 - The application was not accepted. - What? 00:21:49.416 --> 00:21:55.215 Let's see. Looking at your CV now. Formal education is not a requirement, 00:21:55.253 --> 00:21:59.055 but must be compensated for by adequate production experience. 00:21:59.093 --> 00:22:01.839 But... 00:22:04.008 --> 00:22:06.562 Sorry, I have to... 00:22:26.108 --> 00:22:29.621 I'm not looking to get huge muscles. 00:22:29.660 --> 00:22:33.653 Just strength, in general. 00:22:33.692 --> 00:22:36.591 You're in safe hands. 00:22:41.352 --> 00:22:43.311 Strength... 00:22:44.252 --> 00:22:48.725 Kick upwards. One, two... 00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:53.525 This is easy enough. 00:22:53.564 --> 00:22:55.868 Push them together. 00:22:58.364 --> 00:23:01.320 - How many kilos? - Just four. 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:05.237 Mental health is a big part of it. 00:23:05.276 --> 00:23:10.882 I see that in all the people I have trained for years. 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:15.740 - That you grow stronger mentally? - Let me show you. 00:23:15.778 --> 00:23:17.660 It's that part. 00:23:19.503 --> 00:23:21.788 What do you do? 00:23:22.306 --> 00:23:27.202 I'm an artist. I work on developing rituals. 00:23:29.295 --> 00:23:32.148 Right now I have a pretty big project. It'll 00:23:32.172 --> 00:23:34.920 be a collective ritual for the whole city. 00:23:34.959 --> 00:23:39.816 If that's what you enjoy doing, then that's great. 00:23:39.855 --> 00:23:41.871 Is it going ok? 00:23:41.909 --> 00:23:46.748 My support network is somewhat lacking. 00:23:47.285 --> 00:23:54.293 You have to file applications to the Arts Council. 00:23:54.332 --> 00:23:58.824 The thing is, they didn't accept my application. 00:23:58.863 --> 00:24:02.664 They told me I did not qualify as an applicant. 00:24:02.703 --> 00:24:07.676 - So you were rejected? - In a way, yes. 00:24:07.714 --> 00:24:11.439 But, dear... There are... 00:24:11.477 --> 00:24:15.413 There are much worse fates. 00:24:15.452 --> 00:24:19.004 So you got one rejection. So what? 00:24:19.042 --> 00:24:21.810 We live in the best country in the world. 00:24:21.834 --> 00:24:23.016 Yes. 00:24:23.055 --> 00:24:27.797 I'm not the one saying that. The UN says that. Don't give up! 00:24:27.836 --> 00:24:33.461 They're so rigid. It's all about pigeonholing people. 00:24:33.500 --> 00:24:36.514 - The Ministry of Culture... - Such a shitty department. 00:24:36.552 --> 00:24:38.511 You need to go knocking on their door. 00:24:38.549 --> 00:24:44.252 Maybe it was a bit too ambitious. It was a massive project. 00:24:44.290 --> 00:24:47.842 With a large budget. Maybe they... 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:52.565 That chapter ends now. Let's work out and strengthen you, 00:24:52.604 --> 00:24:56.655 - both physically and mentally. - All right. 00:24:56.693 --> 00:25:00.591 Listen, life is fleeting. 00:25:00.629 --> 00:25:05.218 It will come to an end. Why spend time being disappointed? 00:25:05.256 --> 00:25:09.308 Right, and what he sings about is exactly what happened to you. 00:25:48.380 --> 00:25:52.508 Hi. I've come to see Lars Øyno, at the Theatre of Cruelty. 00:25:55.176 --> 00:25:57.231 Hi! I was recently in New York. 00:25:57.269 --> 00:26:00.898 I saw The Living Theatre. Brad says hi. 00:26:00.936 --> 00:26:06.620 - Brad Burgess. Do you have a moment? - Sure. 00:26:06.658 --> 00:26:08.655 Thank you so much. 00:26:08.770 --> 00:26:14.588 I saw Amazonas here a few days ago, and I must say, that was very inspiring. 00:26:15.106 --> 00:26:18.159 I especially liked the plastic bag being folded. 00:26:18.197 --> 00:26:21.999 - Right. The lady in the opening scene. - Yeah. 00:26:23.016 --> 00:26:30.562 The way that sequence lingered. The estrangement of something so trivial... 00:26:30.600 --> 00:26:32.540 It's from Poland. 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:38.319 The piece is about Poland after the fall of the Berlin Wall. 00:26:38.357 --> 00:26:41.218 Before 1990, before the fall, 00:26:41.256 --> 00:26:48.168 elderly women often sold plastic bags from the West on the black markets. 00:26:48.706 --> 00:26:52.028 They sat there folding them to make them look nice enough to sell. 00:26:52.565 --> 00:26:54.773 We throw plastic bags away. They're worthless to us. 00:26:54.812 --> 00:26:58.575 But she gives it focus, and cares about that which we throw away. 00:26:58.613 --> 00:27:01.271 Suddenly a plastic bag turns into something 00:27:01.295 --> 00:27:03.490 very... People get to see what is. 00:27:03.528 --> 00:27:05.986 - Or see what isn't. - Yeah? 00:27:06.024 --> 00:27:08.981 It's alchemy. 00:27:09.922 --> 00:27:13.858 That's some of the reason why I'm here now. 00:27:13.896 --> 00:27:16.642 I'm a performance artist myself, 00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:20.712 but I never went to the arts academy, like most do. 00:27:20.751 --> 00:27:27.279 I went from Romerike drama school to LA, and stayed there for a while. 00:27:27.317 --> 00:27:31.272 Then I made some contacts in Berlin, and went a bit back and forth. 00:27:31.311 --> 00:27:37.685 But for the most part I've worked with an independent theater group in Aalborg. 00:27:37.724 --> 00:27:41.621 - They worked more devised. You know. - Right. 00:27:41.660 --> 00:27:44.828 And what I'm doing now, in few words, 00:27:45.365 --> 00:27:52.200 is a project that is more like a ritual. Which in a way... 00:27:52.239 --> 00:27:57.308 I use this expression that I've coined "The White Inflammation". 00:27:57.826 --> 00:28:01.032 Which I believe covers Scandinavia like a veil. 00:28:01.071 --> 00:28:05.640 Like a numbness. A drug, almost. 00:28:05.679 --> 00:28:10.536 An apathy, an inability to act, a comfort that... 00:28:10.575 --> 00:28:14.549 In Artaud's book "The Theatre and its Double", he tells us 00:28:14.588 --> 00:28:19.330 that to Asians, the color white is synonymous with decomposition. 00:28:19.368 --> 00:28:21.192 - Right! - Plague. 00:28:21.231 --> 00:28:24.015 Plague. Well, that makes perfect sense. 00:28:24.053 --> 00:28:31.695 The paradigm shift we're currently facing, the inevitable change, can be... 00:28:31.733 --> 00:28:37.263 We may experience an instinctive fear and aversion, but what if we rather... 00:28:37.301 --> 00:28:40.014 I attempt to create a ritual through which 00:28:40.038 --> 00:28:42.965 we instead embrace it, and enter it together. 00:28:43.004 --> 00:28:46.037 And that's what brought me here. 00:28:46.076 --> 00:28:52.661 Maybe that's something you could be interested in producing? 00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:59.535 Sorry, but I don't produce for others. I have more than enough with my own. 00:28:59.573 --> 00:29:03.548 I totally get that, but most of the work is done. 00:29:04.085 --> 00:29:08.271 It's purely a formality, with regards to the Arts Council. 00:29:08.309 --> 00:29:15.068 I will do all the work, but they're a bit rigid with formalities. 00:29:20.770 --> 00:29:25.205 For that matter, it could also be worthwhile to me 00:29:25.263 --> 00:29:30.216 to get insight into your processes, and how you... 00:29:30.255 --> 00:29:37.148 So if you need help with anything here, I could always... 00:29:52.124 --> 00:29:58.018 Guys, this is Gritt. She's a performance artist with ties to The Living. 00:29:58.056 --> 00:30:00.764 She'll be helping us throughout the play period. 00:30:00.802 --> 00:30:02.799 THE CRUELTY 00:30:09.404 --> 00:30:15.221 - We've got it now. - Wine? That's rare! 00:30:15.260 --> 00:30:19.925 - Was it that good? - Not that it was that good... 00:30:19.964 --> 00:30:22.997 - Oh. Thank you! - To you too. 00:30:23.036 --> 00:30:24.936 How nice of you. 00:30:24.975 --> 00:30:27.778 We don't need to be so quiet by the plastic bag. 00:30:27.816 --> 00:30:32.482 It's almost like the actor is overcome with the silence. 00:30:32.540 --> 00:30:35.708 Like they feel the need to work quietly with the bag. 00:30:36.226 --> 00:30:41.256 That's not necessary. You can counteract the silence by folding the bag vigorously. 00:30:41.295 --> 00:30:44.309 You can mix it up. Meticulous at first, but then... 00:30:44.348 --> 00:30:48.840 This is anonymous. No actors are on display. 00:30:48.879 --> 00:30:53.813 We need to check if there even are any actors down here. 00:30:53.852 --> 00:30:57.365 And that is interesting. Such plays are rare indeed, 00:30:57.404 --> 00:31:03.164 where you must actively look to see if this is an actual act. 00:31:03.202 --> 00:31:07.925 Normally, the actors would display themselves. But that's not the case here. 00:31:07.964 --> 00:31:12.168 People wonder why they keep doing this. 00:31:12.706 --> 00:31:16.584 The sheer infantility will wear the audience out. 00:31:16.623 --> 00:31:20.655 It seems so fucking awful that it becomes kind of a... 00:31:20.693 --> 00:31:24.514 But when it goes over the edge, it may get interesting. 00:31:24.552 --> 00:31:27.509 Because you don't see adults do those things. 00:31:54.965 --> 00:31:57.020 Oh God. 00:31:58.133 --> 00:32:00.744 Hi there. 00:32:03.989 --> 00:32:05.736 Oh! 00:32:13.378 --> 00:32:16.066 - Hi. - Hi. 00:32:17.084 --> 00:32:22.248 - You've been traveling all night? - 21 hours in total. 00:32:23.208 --> 00:32:28.776 Everything went well. I put him out here. 00:32:31.772 --> 00:32:37.493 - Hi there, Peaches! - Look who's home! 00:32:40.085 --> 00:32:43.906 - You're allergic to Peaches! - No, no. It's just... 00:32:43.944 --> 00:32:47.823 - Yes. You're a bit red. - I have a cold coming on. 00:32:47.861 --> 00:32:51.010 If everything goes according to plan, 00:32:51.068 --> 00:32:54.543 there will be a Waldorf school in Senegal by next year. 00:32:54.581 --> 00:32:58.383 - Then it'll be there. - Right. That's fantastic. 00:32:58.421 --> 00:33:03.221 Yes! That thing with you and the Theatre of Cruelty is fantastic too. 00:33:03.260 --> 00:33:06.140 Yes? It's just one of many things right now. 00:33:06.178 --> 00:33:09.116 But I do think Lars is great. 00:33:09.154 --> 00:33:14.837 We share so many... Well, what he's doing is much more uncompromising. 00:33:14.876 --> 00:33:21.557 - But I am familiar with... - Oh right, I have something in my bag. 00:33:21.596 --> 00:33:23.708 - Oh! What? - Here you go! 00:33:24.226 --> 00:33:30.082 An eight-year-old boy made it. Listen, there's this grainy sound. 00:33:30.120 --> 00:33:32.348 - Yeah, I hear it. - So that it won't sound too pretty. 00:33:32.885 --> 00:33:38.626 So it's kind of like a stone in your shoe... 00:33:39.778 --> 00:33:43.791 I guess I should get going. 00:33:43.848 --> 00:33:46.728 I'll pack this down. 00:33:53.237 --> 00:33:58.114 - Thank you so much! - No, thank you. This is win-win. 00:33:58.152 --> 00:34:05.621 - And you'll be going back... - You know... Week 50 or so. 00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:11.554 If you need some time to yourself, the cabin is just standing there. 00:34:11.592 --> 00:34:13.589 Right! 00:34:13.628 --> 00:34:15.548 Let me just... 00:34:16.066 --> 00:34:17.525 Goodbye, then. 00:34:17.549 --> 00:34:21.999 So long, and good luck on your final exam! 00:34:48.783 --> 00:34:52.661 - Hi! Nice to see you. - Yes. 00:34:52.700 --> 00:34:54.754 - Very nice. - You're coming from... 00:34:54.792 --> 00:34:59.420 - Both guitar and ..? - Ukulele and acoustic guitar. 00:34:59.458 --> 00:35:04.104 Lots of luggage? Want a hand with that? 00:35:04.143 --> 00:35:08.060 No, that's all right. Just a few costumes, and... 00:35:08.098 --> 00:35:11.074 - Want to see what my place is like? - Yes. 00:35:24.399 --> 00:35:27.356 Who are you considering for your cast? 00:35:27.394 --> 00:35:33.922 I've been considering Mikkel Gaup. He's one of my favorites. 00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:38.722 Henrik Mestad. Thorbjørn Harr. Kristofer Hivju. 00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:43.580 Wouldn't it be nice to have someone with more feminine sides? 00:35:43.618 --> 00:35:45.557 Maybe Lars Vaular, or... 00:35:45.596 --> 00:35:49.512 - They're supposed to be miners. - What about Trine Wiggen? 00:35:49.551 --> 00:35:54.351 Trine Wiggen is part of another project of mine. 00:35:54.408 --> 00:35:57.903 I'm so sick of how society just sees... 00:35:59.151 --> 00:36:04.796 my syndrome, and not what I'm capable of. I'd like to see a therapist. 00:36:04.834 --> 00:36:07.637 I've never gone to a therapist before. 00:36:07.676 --> 00:36:14.338 So why not see a therapist on stage, to mirror society? 00:36:14.376 --> 00:36:20.175 That's what I was thinking, anyway. Vent out all my frustration. 00:36:20.213 --> 00:36:24.764 Then it will look like you see a therapist to... 00:36:24.802 --> 00:36:27.951 They want to label me, in a way. 00:36:27.989 --> 00:36:31.676 Just like they do with cows. 00:36:31.714 --> 00:36:34.556 They get ear tags, I got mine when I was born. 00:36:34.594 --> 00:36:37.436 I couldn't agree more. 00:36:37.474 --> 00:36:43.292 But why should the responsibility, or the blame, be placed on the individual? 00:36:43.330 --> 00:36:46.920 - Society is scared. - Right! 00:36:46.959 --> 00:36:51.874 That's what my "White Inflammation" is all about too. 00:36:56.597 --> 00:36:57.768 Hello? 00:36:59.324 --> 00:37:01.244 Hi. 00:37:02.434 --> 00:37:05.045 Cool! I'm so on board. 00:37:07.004 --> 00:37:10.978 Yes, we will. Bye. 00:37:11.784 --> 00:37:14.108 I thought it was the fire alarm. 00:37:14.626 --> 00:37:19.522 I want to become less scared of the fire alarm. So I'm practicing with my phone. 00:37:19.560 --> 00:37:22.498 Smart! Who was that? 00:37:22.536 --> 00:37:27.279 That was Anders T. Andersen. He wants to help me with my miner play. 00:37:27.317 --> 00:37:31.234 But... Where do you know him from? 00:37:31.272 --> 00:37:34.152 I met him in NYC, when we were there together. 00:37:34.191 --> 00:37:37.743 He knows what I'm capable of, to put it that way. 00:37:37.781 --> 00:37:41.813 - Which is not the case with everybody. - Do you trust him enough to... 00:37:41.852 --> 00:37:46.325 Yes, I do. 00:37:46.364 --> 00:37:51.413 It's just so important to pick someone with the right outlook on humanity. 00:37:51.452 --> 00:37:56.060 - To have good values when you... - I get that. 00:37:56.098 --> 00:38:01.052 - What about royalties? - What does that mean? 00:38:02.664 --> 00:38:05.621 You know... Rights. 00:38:20.328 --> 00:38:22.959 Not the best view on women... 00:38:22.997 --> 00:38:27.068 What do you mean by that? 00:38:28.028 --> 00:38:34.364 - No female drivers, for instance. - It's just a movie. 00:38:34.402 --> 00:38:38.338 Fine, it's entertainment, but this is just so... 00:38:41.372 --> 00:38:46.268 ...far out! You're usually so politically aware, Marte. 00:38:46.786 --> 00:38:49.973 I'm just trying to enjoy this movie. 00:38:50.012 --> 00:38:51.836 Oh well... 00:38:52.949 --> 00:38:54.908 Sorry. 00:39:02.453 --> 00:39:07.004 - I didn't mean it like that. - Good. 00:39:14.031 --> 00:39:15.797 I'll go brush my teeth. 00:39:20.520 --> 00:39:23.708 A will to replace or redefine the role 00:39:24.226 --> 00:39:29.122 of body and art in social, cultural and political life. 00:39:29.160 --> 00:39:34.191 And a will to imagine and manage change as a profound potential, 00:39:34.229 --> 00:39:37.685 based on a corporeal perspective. 00:39:38.031 --> 00:39:44.444 We need singular voices who remind us of the strangeness of being alive. 00:39:45.538 --> 00:39:48.629 Profound, beautiful and hideous 00:39:48.668 --> 00:39:53.986 and food and the earth we keep beneath us, or rise above. 00:39:54.024 --> 00:39:58.056 Because there are questions we are born to struggle with. 00:39:58.095 --> 00:40:04.642 Questions involving "why" and "for what". 00:40:05.871 --> 00:40:07.868 Back by the watering hole stands a body, 00:40:08.386 --> 00:40:12.418 observing something else, as the aftermath of a past fire. 00:40:12.456 --> 00:40:16.488 It wonders how to unite all of this. 00:40:34.709 --> 00:40:39.548 - Would you like some help with that? - Do you need a ticket? 00:40:40.085 --> 00:40:43.176 - To get in? Yes. - Okay. 00:41:59.036 --> 00:42:01.032 Oh, sorry! 00:42:02.012 --> 00:42:03.874 Did it go well? 00:42:28.988 --> 00:42:32.520 Gritt? Let's have a coffee up here. 00:42:33.711 --> 00:42:36.591 Okay. 00:42:38.511 --> 00:42:41.084 Are you living in the theatre, Gritt? 00:42:41.122 --> 00:42:44.117 What? If I'm living here? 00:42:46.210 --> 00:42:49.858 I lived at my aunt's place while she was in Senegal. 00:42:49.896 --> 00:42:55.522 She came back early, and I didn't have the time to... 00:42:55.580 --> 00:42:59.439 I couldn't find another place, or didn't have the time... 00:42:59.477 --> 00:43:02.319 She's going back, so then... 00:43:02.357 --> 00:43:06.332 I do have other options. This was just the most convenient. 00:43:06.370 --> 00:43:10.805 That's all right, Gritt. But you need to tell me. 00:43:10.844 --> 00:43:14.684 Of course. I'm sorry. 00:43:15.010 --> 00:43:16.988 I have a proposition. 00:43:17.506 --> 00:43:24.514 You stay here, and I will get you some work, to help you get back on your feet. 00:43:27.221 --> 00:43:30.965 My next project is about the abject. 00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:36.072 That which is cast aside. I'm in touch with a refugee center for research. 00:43:36.111 --> 00:43:40.968 If you could help them film their everyday life, that would be a great help. 00:43:51.471 --> 00:43:54.063 Like art? 00:43:54.101 --> 00:43:57.960 I want to collect a group of people from here. 00:43:57.999 --> 00:43:59.996 - Like us, for example? - For example. 00:44:00.034 --> 00:44:02.664 And... 00:44:03.740 --> 00:44:08.616 Hi, Ragnhild! Ragnhild is an artist and volunteer. 00:44:08.655 --> 00:44:10.613 - Gritt Dahl. Hi. - Hi. 00:44:10.652 --> 00:44:17.045 I'm coming from the Theatre of Cruelty. We have a project about the castaways. 00:44:17.084 --> 00:44:21.077 What kind of contribution did you have in mind for this place? 00:44:21.116 --> 00:44:25.820 Well, this is more like research for a play. 00:44:25.858 --> 00:44:32.444 My plan was to gather a group, and let them 00:44:32.482 --> 00:44:35.612 - film their everyday life. - Wow! Did you hear? 00:44:35.650 --> 00:44:39.356 - Many here dream of becoming actors. - Right? 00:44:40.373 --> 00:44:45.999 Our main goal is getting a visual insight. 00:44:46.037 --> 00:44:49.858 Hollywood next! 00:44:52.968 --> 00:44:57.365 - Such a nice project! - It's very nice. 00:44:58.556 --> 00:45:01.493 You're not sure? Who lives in here? 00:45:01.532 --> 00:45:05.026 Nobody? Oh, that's a window? 00:45:05.064 --> 00:45:07.964 Now you can get into the house. That's good. 00:45:08.002 --> 00:45:11.938 - Look at that! You're at it too! - Yeah... 00:45:14.972 --> 00:45:17.775 Jéro Yun and I had never heard of each other 00:45:17.813 --> 00:45:21.346 before being brought together by Copenhagen LAB. 00:45:21.384 --> 00:45:25.282 There we were curated together based on our resumes. 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:31.388 We agreed that we didn't want to meet halfway between fiction and documentary. 00:45:31.925 --> 00:45:34.248 He would film his breakfast, and I would film mine. 00:45:34.786 --> 00:45:37.653 We didn't have much in the way of thematics 00:45:37.677 --> 00:45:40.700 before we started. It came from the material. 00:46:16.522 --> 00:46:18.255 RAKEL SOLBERG: MY DEAR PEACHES PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT. 00:46:18.293 --> 00:46:19.293 Peaches... 00:46:26.818 --> 00:46:31.464 WHO SHOULD I USE TO SELL MY FLAT? AFRICALOVE, HERE I COME! 00:46:31.503 --> 00:46:35.592 Auntie Rakel... What's going on? 00:46:36.476 --> 00:46:37.532 Oh no... 00:46:43.349 --> 00:46:47.036 The burden of living through history. 00:46:48.015 --> 00:46:53.564 Maybe through eternity, and the love for the Earth itself. 00:46:53.602 --> 00:46:58.344 It can be hard to cling on to what we perceive as real. 00:46:58.383 --> 00:47:02.300 Tables and chairs with friends or acquaintances. 00:47:02.338 --> 00:47:05.064 It's hard to not just float away, 00:47:05.103 --> 00:47:09.192 instead of staying on in this world among concepts and melancholy 00:47:09.231 --> 00:47:12.188 without falling into nihilism or apathy. 00:47:12.706 --> 00:47:14.818 Right, let's... 00:47:14.856 --> 00:47:17.775 Are the others coming? 00:47:22.498 --> 00:47:26.074 Nour is at the Directorate of Immigration. 00:47:26.098 --> 00:47:27.298 Okay? 00:47:27.336 --> 00:47:32.021 And he doesn't know about Serwan. 00:47:32.060 --> 00:47:35.957 A couple of the others are getting sent back to Germany. 00:47:39.778 --> 00:47:44.808 - He said that I'm filming a lot. - Yes. That's great. 00:47:45.788 --> 00:47:48.264 "How to connect to ..." 00:47:50.511 --> 00:47:53.314 - It's working. - Yeah. 00:48:02.088 --> 00:48:04.565 - Wood... No. - Flower? 00:48:04.604 --> 00:48:07.541 Wood flower? 00:48:07.580 --> 00:48:08.789 No, wood anemone! 00:48:08.828 --> 00:48:11.708 Then I don't know where resources and perfect life would be. 00:48:12.245 --> 00:48:14.660 Is it acknowledgment in terms of "I get paid 00:48:14.684 --> 00:48:17.122 for what I can", or is it getting respected? 00:48:17.160 --> 00:48:21.903 Maybe perfect life is the complete harmony of everything. It's in the center. 00:48:21.941 --> 00:48:26.626 Something like self-development is about my thoughts and me personally. 00:48:26.664 --> 00:48:29.602 Same thing about my passion and my life experience. 00:48:29.640 --> 00:48:31.791 Maybe life experience is somewhere in between. 00:48:51.644 --> 00:48:54.716 - Where are you headed? - Where's my bike? 00:49:10.037 --> 00:49:13.877 - He said: "That's our life." - Yes. 00:49:13.935 --> 00:49:15.874 How did you say it? 00:49:33.308 --> 00:49:37.403 These moments fall upon us where through 00:49:37.427 --> 00:49:41.948 unusual happenings we suddenly share vision. 00:49:43.695 --> 00:49:47.708 Something clicks into place. It's an almost physical sensation. 00:49:48.226 --> 00:49:49.570 It's not just a metaphor. 00:49:49.608 --> 00:49:54.984 It's an actual sensation, like falling down the stairs or dropping a mug, 00:49:55.023 --> 00:49:57.000 that we somehow refuse to... 00:49:57.039 --> 00:49:59.842 Hey! Excuse me! 00:49:59.919 --> 00:50:02.799 Food waste goes in the other trash can. 00:50:02.856 --> 00:50:06.716 - Oh, it's not... Never mind. - This? 00:50:06.754 --> 00:50:10.652 Normally, we put it in the other can. But I can't see it right now. 00:50:10.690 --> 00:50:15.125 - Oh, okay. - I guess you can just throw it in there. 00:50:15.164 --> 00:50:18.159 Yeah, I guess so. 00:50:21.135 --> 00:50:24.725 It's a mix of the given things in nature... 00:50:24.749 --> 00:50:25.954 The rain. 00:50:25.992 --> 00:50:28.584 The rain, the wind... 00:50:28.623 --> 00:50:30.600 Nature, and that which... 00:50:30.792 --> 00:50:34.077 A third voice or entity, 00:50:34.104 --> 00:50:38.580 where two playful, frolicsome humans through deep listening 00:50:38.605 --> 00:50:42.135 manage to share enough of themselves to build something new. 00:50:42.778 --> 00:50:48.719 You raise a building. The material is complex, yet open enough 00:50:48.958 --> 00:50:51.175 for an almost new place to be localized. 00:50:51.200 --> 00:50:53.533 THE ABJECT That which is cast aside 00:50:53.698 --> 00:50:57.423 Give them to Gritt, so that she can give it to Thomas. 00:50:57.461 --> 00:51:02.204 So that Thomas has them by the make-up table. 00:51:03.336 --> 00:51:07.349 You need to be there two hours before departure. What do you think? 00:51:07.388 --> 00:51:11.208 - No more than 20. - No more than 22? 00:51:11.746 --> 00:51:16.796 - No, 16-18. Won't you bring the posters? - We'll leave them here. 00:51:16.834 --> 00:51:19.752 - Do you have more in Tokyo? - We'll get them made. 00:51:19.791 --> 00:51:23.535 - You'll be staying here, then? - Yes. 00:51:23.592 --> 00:51:28.066 This is a good room to stay in. 00:52:13.436 --> 00:52:19.119 I feel like this room has the right atmosphere for our stories to be shared. 00:52:21.231 --> 00:52:24.706 Lars Øyno, of course, has his project. 00:52:25.992 --> 00:52:28.796 But this is something else. 00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:33.634 We will make this play rather fast. 00:52:35.458 --> 00:52:39.298 And the result does not have to resemble 00:52:39.336 --> 00:52:44.098 any classical play you could watch at our national theatre. 00:52:54.869 --> 00:52:59.266 This will be authentic, documentary... 00:52:59.304 --> 00:53:00.231 This will be you. 00:53:02.184 --> 00:53:08.117 Which is Lars' focus too, with his theme The Abject, 00:53:09.116 --> 00:53:11.784 which in turn was the basis for this. 00:53:11.823 --> 00:53:18.543 What I thought we'd focus on, is that feeling 00:53:18.581 --> 00:53:23.631 of what it does to a person to be in this kind of situation 00:53:23.669 --> 00:53:27.548 To be in a country where you don't truly belong. 00:53:31.330 --> 00:53:35.765 I'm from a village in the north of Syria. 00:53:37.032 --> 00:53:39.893 My family they love football. 00:53:39.932 --> 00:53:43.522 In my village we had one football. 00:53:46.306 --> 00:53:47.343 My football. 00:53:47.381 --> 00:53:53.084 Why could you not just keep on playing football and living your life? 00:53:53.122 --> 00:53:55.292 I was shot. 00:54:05.506 --> 00:54:09.423 - Isis. - Did they gun down the entire village? 00:54:09.461 --> 00:54:11.592 Yes. 00:54:12.456 --> 00:54:15.317 They stole my dream... 00:54:16.162 --> 00:54:18.274 My girlfriend... 00:54:24.860 --> 00:54:28.796 I didn't want to join the army. 00:54:28.834 --> 00:54:31.522 I had almost... 00:54:32.751 --> 00:54:35.612 I was so scared when I crossed the border. 00:54:35.650 --> 00:54:40.143 The Turkish soldiers would start firing if we didn't stop. 00:54:40.181 --> 00:54:44.866 They would fire at will, anywhere. 00:54:46.018 --> 00:54:50.722 I had to run to the other side. 00:54:51.970 --> 00:54:55.810 All of you have voices that fit well. 00:54:55.848 --> 00:55:03.528 With theatre, it's important that your voice reach all the way to the back rows. 00:55:17.909 --> 00:55:20.828 He had just finished his teacher training. 00:55:21.346 --> 00:55:25.282 He was about to start teaching, but what happened? 00:55:29.084 --> 00:55:34.018 He had to move to Turkey since he didn't want to join the army. 00:55:38.799 --> 00:55:40.949 And now we're here. 00:55:42.812 --> 00:55:45.346 All right. 00:55:46.690 --> 00:55:53.180 I worked with this phrase called "The White Inflammation". 00:55:53.218 --> 00:55:57.039 That focuses on kind of a poison 00:55:57.077 --> 00:56:01.896 that lays all over Scandinavia, maybe all over the West. 00:56:01.935 --> 00:56:06.831 Those "tunnels" - job, family... 00:56:10.479 --> 00:56:14.204 I feel we have to... And there is... 00:56:14.242 --> 00:56:17.295 That's where we come in with our play. 00:56:40.124 --> 00:56:43.388 - Please take off your shoes. - Oh. Sorry. 00:56:43.925 --> 00:56:46.959 - That's fine. - Are you actors now? 00:56:46.997 --> 00:56:48.783 Nearly. 00:56:51.010 --> 00:56:53.660 I'm going to give you words to work on. 00:56:53.698 --> 00:56:56.559 As a base for your physical work. 00:56:57.653 --> 00:57:02.396 Asal, I thought of the word "overwhelmed". 00:57:02.434 --> 00:57:07.349 And the sentence I want to give you, is: "I'm overwhelmed by what I have to carry." 00:57:07.388 --> 00:57:11.996 - When it just becomes too much. - So I carry many things? 00:57:12.034 --> 00:57:15.836 You can also look upon it as a picture. 00:57:15.874 --> 00:57:18.869 Like: "You've got a lot to carry, as a person." 00:57:19.426 --> 00:57:25.263 You've got a lot of loss and sorrow and responsibility on your shoulders. 00:57:26.184 --> 00:57:29.045 I'm so overwhelmed that I fall. 00:57:31.330 --> 00:57:33.269 And... 00:57:35.036 --> 00:57:37.820 I'm dead. 00:57:38.799 --> 00:57:43.848 I'm a whale that's being hunted. 00:57:45.615 --> 00:57:50.338 - Do you know what a whale is? - It's a big, big, giant fish. 00:57:50.376 --> 00:57:54.984 - It's not actually a fish, it's... - It's a big fish! 00:57:55.023 --> 00:57:59.016 Okay? I'm a whale being hunted. 00:57:59.055 --> 00:58:03.068 It would be a good idea to write down a project description. 00:58:03.605 --> 00:58:05.756 - What it's about. - Sure. 00:58:05.794 --> 00:58:11.439 And describe what they will get out of it, regarding what they're a part of here. 00:58:11.477 --> 00:58:16.508 It will of course be rewarding for them, but also so important to the audience. 00:58:17.045 --> 00:58:19.138 To hear their stories. Right. 00:58:19.176 --> 00:58:22.916 The center is also concerned with in what 00:58:22.940 --> 00:58:26.972 way taking part in this benefits these guys. 00:58:27.010 --> 00:58:30.677 I think it would be a good idea to include that. 00:58:30.716 --> 00:58:33.634 In addition to the importance of the story told. 00:58:36.418 --> 00:58:38.261 - Cool shirt! - Thank you. 00:58:38.300 --> 00:58:41.391 I didn't know about the connection 00:58:41.429 --> 00:58:47.170 between "fitness" and "witch" until this summer. 00:58:47.208 --> 00:58:48.263 Right, I see. 00:58:48.288 --> 00:58:52.872 - How could I not see that for so long? - A flame has been kindled. 00:58:52.911 --> 00:58:54.677 Yes. The flame burns. 00:58:54.716 --> 00:58:57.768 We went to this refugee center... 00:58:58.306 --> 00:59:03.356 I'm just checking that you do things the way I taught them to you. 00:59:03.413 --> 00:59:08.962 Or I'd be a lousy teacher. Or you a lousy student. One of the two. 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:14.991 Just keep it up while I work a little with Sigrid. 00:59:15.029 --> 00:59:18.716 - Around three, was it? - Shoukat? 00:59:18.754 --> 00:59:23.343 And then it just keeps snowballing. We've maxed out on the refugee grants. 00:59:23.381 --> 00:59:29.352 The activity grants, that is. And I have access to a theatre. 00:59:29.391 --> 00:59:35.842 Go to the next exercise. Do the next set, then we'll talk some more. 00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:40.815 - We can't just chat. - Chatting is strictly forbidden here. 00:59:42.696 --> 00:59:45.672 I can start challenging myself now. 00:59:45.711 --> 00:59:51.260 Or try other exercises, so I don't stay on the same level forever. 00:59:52.431 --> 00:59:55.042 - Here you are. - Thank you so much. 00:59:55.080 --> 00:59:58.863 - See you the day after tomorrow. - Yes. 01:00:16.354 --> 01:00:20.194 - Yeah? - Could this be something? 01:00:20.232 --> 01:00:23.976 I don't know what, exactly, but this does feel like... 01:00:24.015 --> 01:00:27.068 - This stuff is perfect. - Both symbolic and practical. 01:00:27.605 --> 01:00:31.656 - For the faceless ones. - Right, the faceless ones. 01:00:31.695 --> 01:00:34.594 - It certainly removes the... - Identity. 01:00:34.632 --> 01:00:37.455 This feels so grounded. 01:00:37.493 --> 01:00:43.176 There's so much noise in the art world. 01:00:43.215 --> 01:00:48.149 "Who got grants, which awards have you won", and so on. 01:00:48.188 --> 01:00:53.717 It becomes so elitist, and overshadows what we have to offer. 01:00:55.503 --> 01:00:59.669 It's pretty ridiculous how so many things fall from above. 01:01:00.226 --> 01:01:07.176 I have a project I've been using to liberate amateurish ecstasy. 01:01:07.215 --> 01:01:09.154 - "Amateurish ecstasy"? - Yeah. 01:01:09.192 --> 01:01:15.836 I use it when I enter a new room, to take in the room. 01:01:15.874 --> 01:01:21.365 The point is to become more present and more sensitive. 01:01:22.306 --> 01:01:25.512 I have a YouTube video here. 01:01:28.220 --> 01:01:30.370 This is an autistic doppelganger. 01:01:31.964 --> 01:01:37.954 She communicates with objects in nature through movement, touch and sounds. 01:01:37.992 --> 01:01:42.888 This is her language. This is how she communicates. 01:02:19.100 --> 01:02:24.149 The observation goes like this: As a consequence of a willingness, 01:02:24.188 --> 01:02:28.988 or that fires and flames simply dig into the dance, 01:02:29.525 --> 01:02:34.460 or the body, as a representation of structures we see, yet don't see... 01:02:34.498 --> 01:02:37.628 The body cannot help but feel a little cheated. 01:02:38.146 --> 01:02:41.199 Cheated by an overhanging dominance of the intellect. 01:02:45.096 --> 01:02:48.072 You're not alone 01:03:18.850 --> 01:03:20.655 Asal? 01:03:21.596 --> 01:03:25.263 - What is this? - The shower. 01:03:25.301 --> 01:03:27.490 I'm not sure if that comes across. 01:03:27.528 --> 01:03:33.999 It was not quite what I had in mind, but like you said, we could also... 01:03:34.037 --> 01:03:38.933 We could simply have a sequence where, for instance, Serwan... 01:03:38.972 --> 01:03:46.364 goes about his life, or maybe that just goes on in the background while we... 01:03:46.402 --> 01:03:49.903 You live your life here. You take a shower, 01:03:49.927 --> 01:03:53.372 go to the bathroom, get dressed, sleep... 01:03:55.138 --> 01:03:58.268 - Let's see. Is this... - For the show? 01:03:59.112 --> 01:04:03.874 That's great! All right, cool! 01:04:03.912 --> 01:04:07.868 Great. Keep on doing that. How are things going here? 01:04:08.405 --> 01:04:14.357 Great! I can do something really cool here. Let me find the clip. 01:04:14.396 --> 01:04:19.292 - He looks so small. - See how well it goes with the sound? 01:04:22.901 --> 01:04:28.700 May I take your picture? Smile, because this is hilarious. 01:04:28.738 --> 01:04:30.850 Asal? 01:04:30.888 --> 01:04:36.591 - Yeah? - We can't use that one. 01:04:36.629 --> 01:04:40.143 - Ragnhild wanted it. - That won't do. We can't... 01:04:40.181 --> 01:04:44.252 I could've been clearer about it, but we can't use anything we find here. 01:04:44.290 --> 01:04:47.996 We were only using the backside. 01:04:48.034 --> 01:04:52.776 That won't work. It belongs to Lars, the owner. 01:04:52.815 --> 01:04:55.599 - All right. - It belongs to The Cruelty. 01:04:55.637 --> 01:05:00.380 Do not touch anything that we didn't bring with us here. 01:05:00.418 --> 01:05:05.122 That will belong to the Theatre of Cruelty, and we must respect that. 01:05:05.180 --> 01:05:08.156 All right? Good. Otherwise - great! 01:05:08.194 --> 01:05:11.132 Let's try that. But then you must tighten it up. 01:05:13.685 --> 01:05:16.815 Oh, look at you! 01:06:06.773 --> 01:06:13.282 It's no big deal. In a way it's a good thing. There's a truth in that expression. 01:06:14.357 --> 01:06:17.045 - And that one! - All right. 01:06:17.429 --> 01:06:21.192 - There. - All right. 01:06:21.231 --> 01:06:26.722 - You use that as dipping sauce? - On the salad. With tomato and cucumber. 01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:28.661 All right. 01:06:30.504 --> 01:06:32.770 I think this will do. 01:06:38.453 --> 01:06:41.314 Hi, Lars! Hi! 01:06:43.906 --> 01:06:46.037 Yes! Yes, it was just... 01:06:46.076 --> 01:06:48.975 It started at the refugee center. 01:06:49.013 --> 01:06:54.908 I met some truly extraordinary people. They had such powerful stories. 01:06:55.445 --> 01:07:01.436 Then it snowballed a bit. They thought it was really cool idea. 01:07:01.474 --> 01:07:07.157 The refugee center workers thought it was a great activity for the asylum seekers. 01:07:07.196 --> 01:07:09.288 I was never actually... 01:07:09.826 --> 01:07:12.168 No! No, no, no. 01:07:12.706 --> 01:07:18.677 Yes, all right. That was a mistake, and that should never have happened. 01:07:18.716 --> 01:07:23.612 I can guarantee you that won't ever happen again. It was that one time. 01:07:23.650 --> 01:07:29.026 I've been crystal clear that anything belonging to the theatre is off limits. 01:07:29.064 --> 01:07:30.965 No one has... No. 01:07:32.213 --> 01:07:34.959 No! It's not like we've... 01:07:34.997 --> 01:07:39.874 No, you have to... If you'd met these people, you'd understand me. 01:07:39.912 --> 01:07:44.655 Their stories are incredible. 01:07:44.693 --> 01:07:47.669 It's so important to share them! 01:07:48.226 --> 01:07:51.452 But... Lars, listen to me! 01:07:51.490 --> 01:07:56.866 You'd love these people, and if you'd heard their stories, you'd agree... 01:07:56.904 --> 01:07:59.189 Of course I should've called you! 01:07:59.746 --> 01:08:03.701 I tried calling you, okay? Your phone was switched off! 01:08:05.621 --> 01:08:09.461 Sorry. Yes. Of course. 01:08:10.306 --> 01:08:15.298 With regards to Artaud and The Cruelty... 01:08:15.336 --> 01:08:22.152 It reactualizes all of The Theatre of Cruelty, or Artaud's ideas... 01:08:22.191 --> 01:08:27.068 Don't you see what I mean? This is all in line with your goals for the theatre! 01:08:27.605 --> 01:08:31.676 No... No! Please! 01:08:54.543 --> 01:08:56.828 - Okay... Hi. - Hi. 01:08:57.346 --> 01:09:01.301 - Need a hand? - No, we're good. 01:09:01.340 --> 01:09:05.429 I have an important message. 01:09:05.468 --> 01:09:09.058 I just spoke to Lars. 01:09:09.096 --> 01:09:13.109 Apparently, the municipality council signed an agreement with Urbanium 01:09:13.148 --> 01:09:18.524 about Vega Scene taking over Cruelty. Lars was never in the loop. 01:09:18.562 --> 01:09:22.325 - What? - Yes. It's horrible. 01:09:22.364 --> 01:09:28.066 Right, so... This is what everybody has been dreading. 01:09:28.104 --> 01:09:31.311 - What about... - Not Hausmania. 01:09:31.349 --> 01:09:34.997 - They're taking over the premises? - According to Lars, 01:09:35.036 --> 01:09:40.642 they have to leave due to some sort of realignments. 01:09:40.700 --> 01:09:46.460 - When? - Now. We have to be out by tomorrow. 01:09:46.498 --> 01:09:52.392 - What? That won't work, Gritt. - It's insane! How can they do that? 01:09:52.431 --> 01:09:56.252 But relax. I will find a way. 01:09:57.231 --> 01:10:00.168 We have to put this on hold. 01:10:01.973 --> 01:10:05.698 Not even on hold. We will find a way. 01:10:05.736 --> 01:10:11.612 We will make it happen, but it won't be quite like we imagined. 01:10:11.650 --> 01:10:17.256 For now, let's eat. 01:10:17.295 --> 01:10:23.804 Then we will have to pack up, but I will fix this. 01:10:23.842 --> 01:10:27.740 You have the funds, so we only need to find another place. 01:10:27.778 --> 01:10:35.381 Lovely. Fantastic. Did you send out invitations, Ragnhild? 01:10:49.800 --> 01:10:53.621 Back at the watering hole stands a body observing something else, 01:10:53.679 --> 01:10:57.500 as the aftermath of a past fire. 01:10:57.538 --> 01:10:59.477 It wonders how to unite all this. 01:10:59.516 --> 01:11:03.125 - Are you okay? - Yeah. 01:11:03.164 --> 01:11:09.135 This body is a witch, since there's no escaping the fact that we're all witches. 01:11:29.141 --> 01:11:31.004 KAIROS 01:11:31.042 --> 01:11:34.152 And I, witch, dig my heels in 01:11:34.191 --> 01:11:40.930 against that current which very much shuns motion as a craft, 01:11:40.968 --> 01:11:43.637 as a profound and time-consuming practice, 01:11:43.661 --> 01:11:46.479 a practice unhampered by production targets. 01:11:46.517 --> 01:11:50.588 All my criminal sides light the way 01:11:51.106 --> 01:11:57.269 For the woods and fields shall rejoice 01:11:58.901 --> 01:12:05.525 Where wild dogs 01:12:05.564 --> 01:12:11.381 and desert beasts convene 01:12:12.245 --> 01:12:16.469 Where the arrow worm builds its nest lays it eggs 01:12:16.508 --> 01:12:21.941 dancing where the owl hatches its plans, blinks 01:12:21.980 --> 01:12:26.703 Lilith, Lilith 01:12:26.741 --> 01:12:34.556 Who darkens my plan with playful words? Who sees me when I turn away? 01:12:34.613 --> 01:12:39.125 Purple plums! and cold diamonds 01:12:39.164 --> 01:12:42.120 Pearls? and spasms in my image! 01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:47.151 The demon lady hums and spills in a cyclical blood game 01:12:57.519 --> 01:12:59.708 - Lilith? - Never heard of Lilith? 01:13:08.156 --> 01:13:09.250 Three, two, one. 01:13:09.922 --> 01:13:11.861 Hey. 01:13:11.900 --> 01:13:15.663 I'm your power animal. 01:13:15.701 --> 01:13:20.559 The candy crocodile that comes with the cover version of Sweet Harmony. 01:13:20.597 --> 01:13:24.418 I lie there like a vast landscape, lighting up the night. 01:13:24.456 --> 01:13:27.548 Am I your savior from all minor evils? 01:13:28.066 --> 01:13:31.004 I let you float in rivers of mother's milk. 01:13:31.042 --> 01:13:33.922 I remove you from the slight Norwegian distaste. 01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:36.092 You blink to clear your eyes. 01:13:36.130 --> 01:13:40.546 You mumble to yourself eventually, in a trance. 01:13:40.584 --> 01:13:43.580 You can't be alone in this. You need witnesses! 01:13:43.618 --> 01:13:47.573 "Father", you say. "I think I had an epiphany!" 01:13:47.612 --> 01:13:52.124 Let's start over. None of this ever happened. 01:13:52.162 --> 01:13:57.039 Your great-grandfather is proud of you. Your mother loves you. 01:13:57.077 --> 01:13:59.823 You're listening to "A Twin Seeks Its Pod". 01:13:59.861 --> 01:14:06.466 - I am Gritt... Dahl. - Who's never heard of Lilith! 01:14:06.504 --> 01:14:11.458 In Genesis, God created male and female, as male and female he created them. 01:14:11.496 --> 01:14:14.185 In Jewish mythology, Lilith was the first 01:14:14.209 --> 01:14:17.180 woman, made equal from the same clay as Adam. 01:14:17.218 --> 01:14:19.891 She fled, gave up her safety for the free 01:14:19.915 --> 01:14:22.805 and wild, and then this story about the rib. 01:14:22.844 --> 01:14:24.840 She's demonized in Judaism. 01:14:24.879 --> 01:14:28.834 According to Jewish writings, when men have nightly emissions, 01:14:28.872 --> 01:14:32.444 it's Lilith riding them before stealing their sperm. 01:14:32.482 --> 01:14:38.588 Me being here now is such serendipity. I work with performance and rituals... 01:14:39.106 --> 01:14:43.138 - Serendipity? - Destined to happen. 01:14:43.176 --> 01:14:45.980 Destined coincidences. 01:14:46.018 --> 01:14:51.586 Like Kairos, "the right moment for something". 01:14:51.624 --> 01:14:54.459 Chronos is ordinary time, while Kairos... 01:14:54.483 --> 01:14:55.522 Kairos, right. 01:14:55.580 --> 01:14:59.516 It's all about recognizing the meeting of crossroads. 01:14:59.554 --> 01:15:02.376 This is a crossroads, then. 01:15:02.415 --> 01:15:07.368 I was just thinking, because I had this dream first. 01:15:07.906 --> 01:15:10.268 - I then started unravelling it. - What dream? 01:15:10.805 --> 01:15:14.012 The one about the White Inflammation. You can look at it like... 01:15:14.050 --> 01:15:16.651 Like after the Black Death. You'd think 01:15:16.675 --> 01:15:19.695 they'd want to save the world, or themselves. 01:15:19.733 --> 01:15:23.669 But they saw it as Judgement Day. 01:15:23.708 --> 01:15:27.509 "Quit whatever you're doing, go to town, drink and fornicate." 01:15:27.548 --> 01:15:31.906 ..becoming a priest was easy-peasy, since they were dropping like flies. 01:15:31.944 --> 01:15:36.725 Now it feels like I'm getting closer to the knot in the ball of yarn. 01:15:39.586 --> 01:15:46.325 - Right now? You feel that? - Yes, that's what I meant by serendipity. 01:16:48.130 --> 01:16:50.933 Those who have lived here longest, get the top floor. 01:16:50.972 --> 01:16:57.538 I'm in a bit of a flux right now. I have it... outdoors. 01:18:44.271 --> 01:18:50.031 Simultaneously I seek a peaceful and argumentative co-existence for myself, 01:18:50.069 --> 01:18:56.808 in-between theory and practice. The arguing regarding which theory 01:18:57.346 --> 01:19:01.628 and how to formulate it to encompass witches, trolls 01:19:02.146 --> 01:19:08.194 and bodies with dreams of profound, tangible changes. 01:19:14.895 --> 01:19:19.714 - Hi. - Hi. I'm sorry for... 01:19:19.752 --> 01:19:24.284 ..back when we created societies and developed civilization, 01:19:24.322 --> 01:19:30.255 this was due to us developing reasoning and language to be able to communicate. 01:19:33.269 --> 01:19:34.863 Hi. 01:19:40.584 --> 01:19:43.733 You disappeared at some point? 01:19:43.772 --> 01:19:48.399 - Yes. Any water here? - Water? Of course. 01:19:48.437 --> 01:19:50.588 My nerves are so frayed right now. 01:20:15.183 --> 01:20:17.372 ASAL: HI, WHEN DO WE MEET? 01:20:28.623 --> 01:20:31.810 - Hello! - Hi. 01:20:31.848 --> 01:20:35.458 - Nice to see you! How are you? - Good. 01:20:35.496 --> 01:20:41.045 - Do you live around here? - No, I was at a party up there. 01:20:41.084 --> 01:20:47.976 In the women's collective? I'd love to go there some time. 01:20:48.015 --> 01:20:51.816 I played Peer Gynt for the umpteenth time last night. 01:20:51.855 --> 01:20:54.888 I think it was women only there. 01:20:55.426 --> 01:20:58.748 What are you up to these days? 01:20:59.285 --> 01:21:02.204 - What's it called again? Research. - Research? Cool. 01:21:02.242 --> 01:21:06.082 Something new I'm working on. 01:21:06.120 --> 01:21:10.940 - The White Infla... The castaways and... - The white ..? 01:21:10.978 --> 01:21:14.108 The White Inflammation, but also about Scandinavia. 01:21:22.383 --> 01:21:27.432 - How does one get admitted here? - May I have your social security number? 01:21:30.120 --> 01:21:36.744 You want to do something... Make a contribution! 01:21:36.783 --> 01:21:43.752 Instead I'm just drifting around, spoiling everything I touch! 01:21:45.346 --> 01:21:48.629 It wasn't supposed to be like that, it just... 01:21:52.488 --> 01:21:55.388 I should just stop, and do something else! 01:21:55.925 --> 01:21:59.804 But what would that be? I don't have any education... 01:22:00.860 --> 01:22:04.949 So you have quite a lot going on, then. 01:22:04.988 --> 01:22:08.828 Your living situation is complicated. What about your surroundings? 01:22:09.346 --> 01:22:13.416 Do you have someone to talk to about the difficult things? 01:22:13.455 --> 01:22:17.986 - My mom is in Gran Canaria. - What was that? 01:22:18.024 --> 01:22:22.095 - My mom is in Gran Canaria. - She is? 01:22:22.152 --> 01:22:24.783 Does she live there? 01:22:24.821 --> 01:22:26.972 Yes. 01:22:27.663 --> 01:22:33.538 - What about your father? - He... We're not in touch. 01:22:34.402 --> 01:22:39.490 But have you ever experienced hearing voices those around you can't hear? 01:22:39.528 --> 01:22:42.389 Or seen things those around you can't see? 01:22:42.428 --> 01:22:45.173 Both yes and no. 01:22:46.152 --> 01:22:49.839 Yes, because in a way it feels like I do that all the time. 01:22:49.877 --> 01:22:54.677 So maybe I hear things differently, or respond differently to them? 01:22:54.716 --> 01:22:58.383 Otherwise, people wouldn't behave like they do. 01:22:58.421 --> 01:23:01.493 Have you thought about taking your own life? 01:23:01.532 --> 01:23:06.255 Yes, sure. But it's always been that way, 01:23:06.312 --> 01:23:10.076 so that's nothing new. That's just... 01:23:10.133 --> 01:23:12.944 that it would be a relief to let go. But I'm 01:23:12.968 --> 01:23:15.740 sure it's like that for everyone, at times. 01:23:15.778 --> 01:23:17.871 What stops you? 01:23:19.829 --> 01:23:23.343 From taking my own life? 01:23:26.242 --> 01:23:29.026 What do you live for? 01:23:36.053 --> 01:23:39.912 I think we're done here, unless you have more to add? 01:23:39.951 --> 01:23:41.909 - From the list? - No. 01:23:41.948 --> 01:23:46.364 Our impression of your situation, 01:23:46.402 --> 01:23:50.588 is that you are clearly going through a crisis. 01:23:51.125 --> 01:23:54.428 An admission... 01:23:54.965 --> 01:23:59.804 would probably not be our best choice today. 01:23:59.842 --> 01:24:01.781 What do you mean by that? 01:24:01.820 --> 01:24:07.484 I think you can solve your issues... 01:24:09.442 --> 01:24:12.264 out there, in your life. 01:24:12.303 --> 01:24:17.333 You are familiar with the system, with regards to what help you can get? 01:24:17.372 --> 01:24:21.135 You have a number of available social assistance options. 01:24:21.173 --> 01:24:25.052 It's important to stress that you're not alone in this. 01:24:27.720 --> 01:24:32.405 Putting a kindergarten between two blocks is an idiotic move by the politicians. 01:24:39.150 --> 01:24:42.456 EXCITING THEATRE WORKSHOP AT THE THEATRE OF CRUELTY WITH REFSTAD REFUGEE CENTER 01:24:46.844 --> 01:24:48.860 REMOVE TAG 01:24:52.642 --> 01:24:55.192 Did you use The Cruelty without permission? 01:24:55.216 --> 01:24:57.672 A very upset Lars just called the center. 01:24:57.711 --> 01:25:01.570 Hope there's a reasonable explanation, regarding the grants and all. 01:25:17.832 --> 01:25:20.111 TONJE: HI, GRY-JEANETTE! SO YOU'RE IN THE COUNTRY? 01:25:20.135 --> 01:25:22.039 WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE YOU DURING HÆLMIS. 01:25:23.718 --> 01:25:27.375 THE HARVEST FESTIVAL 01:26:42.428 --> 01:26:45.308 - Dear God, it's been so long! - 20 years! 01:26:45.826 --> 01:26:49.973 - I wasn't sure if you'd come. - I did write that I would. 01:26:50.012 --> 01:26:52.930 - Oh, right. - It was just a bit hard to... 01:26:52.968 --> 01:26:55.426 Right. That circular feeling. 01:26:55.676 --> 01:26:59.362 - Peek-a-boo! It's Gry-Jeanette! - Gritt! 01:26:59.400 --> 01:27:03.183 Let's get you some lasagna! Something to drink? 01:27:03.221 --> 01:27:05.333 Would you like beer or wine? 01:27:05.372 --> 01:27:08.213 You may not like it. 01:27:08.252 --> 01:27:12.764 - I brew my own beer. - I'll say! Wow. 01:27:12.802 --> 01:27:16.796 I'm sorry that we started without you. The kids get so hungry. 01:27:16.834 --> 01:27:19.088 Sorry for being so late. 01:27:19.112 --> 01:27:23.304 Not your fault. We're used to cold dinners. 01:27:23.343 --> 01:27:29.237 Did you ride a bike here? Did you take the old Moss Road? 01:27:29.276 --> 01:27:33.845 I would, but today I came by train. Or replacement bus. 01:27:40.680 --> 01:27:43.714 Quite a mall they've built here. 01:27:43.752 --> 01:27:50.165 It was like an octopus spreading its tentacles. 01:27:50.204 --> 01:27:54.351 It's very handy to have one of those here. 01:27:57.826 --> 01:28:03.644 And very handy that we can drive right in. We're often in a bit of a hurry. 01:28:03.682 --> 01:28:05.640 Yeah, often in a hurry. 01:28:05.679 --> 01:28:08.712 Gritt is an actor! 01:28:08.751 --> 01:28:11.708 Are you a celebrity? 01:28:12.245 --> 01:28:16.085 Do you go to lots of auditions and such? 01:28:16.124 --> 01:28:21.058 Nope. Only in the very beginning, before I found my niche. 01:28:21.096 --> 01:28:24.168 So you gave up on the big dream? 01:28:24.706 --> 01:28:28.028 You're no longer aspiring to become a famous actress? 01:28:28.546 --> 01:28:30.562 What makes you say that? 01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:36.476 Reality catches up with most people, and you have to adjust. 01:28:36.514 --> 01:28:40.085 I do performance. Two completely different worlds. 01:28:40.124 --> 01:28:41.468 Performance? Okay. 01:28:42.005 --> 01:28:46.882 - It's about staging an event... - There, there. 01:28:46.920 --> 01:28:51.855 - Can you make a living doing that? - Gritt has done many exciting things. 01:28:51.893 --> 01:28:56.655 - Worked abroad, and... - But it does require... 01:28:56.693 --> 01:29:00.303 a more moderate lifestyle. 01:29:00.341 --> 01:29:06.332 Financially. Less materially oriented. 01:29:06.370 --> 01:29:08.885 You have to sort of... 01:29:08.924 --> 01:29:12.879 - Do you have children? - No. 01:29:12.917 --> 01:29:15.663 No children of my own. 01:29:15.701 --> 01:29:23.439 I simply wouldn't dare. Considering what we're entering into. 01:29:23.477 --> 01:29:26.680 The upheaval. The impending catastrophe... 01:29:26.704 --> 01:29:28.066 What catastrophe? 01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:34.114 The climate catastrophe. The ecological catastrophe. The apocalypse. 01:29:34.152 --> 01:29:36.975 We're not quite there yet. 01:29:37.013 --> 01:29:41.832 - I do get what you mean. - We need to think outside the box more. 01:29:41.871 --> 01:29:46.536 Yeah, bringing children into the world is stupid when everything's going to hell. 01:29:46.575 --> 01:29:53.045 - Sorry about putting you here, kids. - There's a lot of research on this. 01:29:53.084 --> 01:29:57.058 Please take Torje. 01:29:58.133 --> 01:30:02.108 - So that we get some... - Let's get you changed. 01:30:03.816 --> 01:30:06.773 Sorry about that, Gry-Jeanette. 01:30:06.812 --> 01:30:08.751 Gritt. 01:30:08.789 --> 01:30:13.301 Why do you speak that dialect if you're from around here? 01:30:13.340 --> 01:30:19.119 Good question. I used to live in a place called The Valley of Saron. 01:30:19.157 --> 01:30:22.805 - Heard of The Valley of Saron? - No. 01:30:22.844 --> 01:30:27.740 It's a valley where everybody's Christian, and they all believe in God and Jesus. 01:30:27.778 --> 01:30:31.733 My six half-sisters and me started a group called "Seven Sisters", 01:30:31.772 --> 01:30:37.320 We sang in the Sunday church service. Our father was the pastor. 01:30:37.359 --> 01:30:41.333 That was pretty intense. 01:30:41.372 --> 01:30:45.308 When I was 12, my mom divorced my dad. 01:30:45.826 --> 01:30:49.090 We moved here. Our apartment building was called "Gøsjeblokka". 01:31:05.199 --> 01:31:09.077 ..is intelligent and creative, and grants high status. 01:31:09.116 --> 01:31:16.757 It's about five guys courting this one lady, and then she picks one of them. 01:31:19.426 --> 01:31:22.690 Don't discuss all the exciting stuff without me! 01:31:22.728 --> 01:31:26.184 ..and just as I finished, 01:31:26.223 --> 01:31:30.255 I realized I had squeezed out a little Hitler on Mathias. 01:31:30.293 --> 01:31:31.388 That guy. 01:31:31.944 --> 01:31:34.133 It wasn't easy to make them laugh. 01:31:34.172 --> 01:31:38.933 - What about him? - I knew him a little. 01:31:38.972 --> 01:31:41.794 Oh! Of course you know some of those people. 01:31:41.832 --> 01:31:44.789 I have his sperm in my freezer. 01:31:46.498 --> 01:31:49.205 I have his sperm in my freezer. 01:31:49.244 --> 01:31:53.218 Usually... You should listen to this too, Vilja. 01:31:54.140 --> 01:31:58.882 You know Eve and Adam? There was a woman before Eve, 01:31:58.940 --> 01:32:01.685 and her name was Lilith. 01:32:01.724 --> 01:32:05.948 In Jewish Mythology, it's said that Lilith... 01:32:06.485 --> 01:32:10.383 steals the sperm from the nightly emissions of men. 01:32:10.421 --> 01:32:15.298 Wait, stealing? Which also resonates well with Artaud... 01:32:22.805 --> 01:32:24.764 Are you okay? 01:32:24.802 --> 01:32:26.972 Yes. 01:32:27.586 --> 01:32:33.365 - How's your love life? Anything going on? - I gave that up. 01:32:33.404 --> 01:32:36.456 You can't give that up! You didn't, did you? 01:32:36.514 --> 01:32:40.277 Being in a couple, a relationship, isn't for everyone. 01:32:40.316 --> 01:32:47.112 You're complicating matters for yourself now. You've always made things hard, 01:32:47.151 --> 01:32:53.525 but giving up love may be what makes it hardest to be you right now. 01:32:53.564 --> 01:32:56.463 I can tell that you're not doing so well. 01:32:56.501 --> 01:33:00.226 I know that you're a good person, and easy to love. 01:33:00.264 --> 01:33:06.140 But when you don't let anyone in, that makes it hard to fall for you. 01:33:06.178 --> 01:33:09.805 Why do you always have to do that? Choosing 01:33:09.829 --> 01:33:13.148 the difficult paths instead of just... 01:33:13.666 --> 01:33:18.677 giving yourself some slack. All this overthinking of yours... 01:35:47.669 --> 01:35:51.260 THE HERMIT 01:36:22.959 --> 01:36:26.108 Whistles 01:36:26.664 --> 01:36:32.520 Does the dream have a father? 01:36:32.559 --> 01:36:39.317 Adam said she was too wild 01:36:42.255 --> 01:36:47.919 All my criminal sides light the way 01:36:47.957 --> 01:36:52.757 for the woods and fields shall rejoice 01:44:11.612 --> 01:44:16.239 And when life flings the unexpected at us... 01:44:16.277 --> 01:44:22.172 To belong in this extremely individualized society ours is turning into... 01:44:22.229 --> 01:44:26.012 Our own vanity, and what we'd like to leave behind, 01:44:26.069 --> 01:44:29.775 is connected to the fact that life changes. 01:44:29.813 --> 01:44:36.245 There is light and darkness, pain and joy. Tenderness... 01:44:55.599 --> 01:44:59.535 Next: The hunger issues of the world are increasing. 01:44:59.573 --> 01:45:06.044 The goal of abolishing extreme poverty before 2030, has become more difficult. 01:45:08.981 --> 01:45:12.104 The search for the last missing person 01:45:12.128 --> 01:45:15.759 after the Troms avalanche will resume today. 01:45:15.797 --> 01:45:21.615 Four skiers where taken by an avalanche at Blueberry Hill this January. 01:45:21.653 --> 01:45:24.970 Three were found, but despite four weeks of 01:45:24.994 --> 01:45:28.412 tireless searching, the last victim was not. 01:45:28.450 --> 01:45:30.965 Now, summer is here, and... 01:45:56.117 --> 01:45:58.172 Cheers. 01:47:07.042 --> 01:47:12.783 This is an elixir. A potion I've been experimenting with. 01:47:12.821 --> 01:47:18.696 - Exciting. Green and pretty. - Yeah, the color is all right. 01:47:18.735 --> 01:47:21.634 It almost looks a bit poisonous! Exciting. 01:47:21.672 --> 01:47:24.303 - Thank you so much. - You're welcome. 01:47:24.341 --> 01:47:29.064 And thank you so much for all your... aid. 01:47:29.103 --> 01:47:31.042 You're welcome. 01:48:15.144 --> 01:48:18.082 Hello. Guten Tag. 01:48:18.120 --> 01:48:20.962 Bonjour. Hola. 01:48:21.000 --> 01:48:24.149 Salaam aleikum. Konnichi wa. 01:48:24.188 --> 01:48:26.856 Tjänare. Hei. 01:49:03.548 --> 01:49:09.192 When we have eradicated all biological life as we know it, including ourselves, 01:49:09.231 --> 01:49:13.973 something else will take over and lust for life. 01:49:19.733 --> 01:49:24.648 I like to think that life itself is a thinking being. 01:49:26.568 --> 01:49:32.962 A being spawning concepts as a mechanism for survival. 01:49:33.000 --> 01:49:37.013 To ensure the continuation of life. 01:49:39.068 --> 01:49:44.405 And that life itself has a remembrance of the past, 01:49:44.444 --> 01:49:49.589 and that chaos takes on a shape by recalling the past embodied in us. 01:49:51.183 --> 01:50:05.119 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.