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A Year along
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Morten Skallerud
Betzy Kjelsbergs vei 24b
N-0486 Oslo, Norway
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photo by:
Knut Skoglund
"A YEAR ALONG THE ABANDONED ROAD"
"A Year along the
Abandoned Road" is a portrait of a deserted fisherman's village
in Northern Norway called Børfjord - a place with an incredible
personality in the middle of a magnificent Arctic nature.
The
12 minute short film was filmed in 70mm Super Panavision, using
a specially developed "nature animation" technique. The
result is a magic flight in one single shot, along the remains of
an internal village road. At the same time a whole year passes by
at 50 000 times normal speed!
Most of the year, the village
of Børfjord lies empty with virgin snow between cold houses.
People show up only during a short and hectic summer season. But
the cycles of nature go on as they have always done, totally independent
of what people might do.
Music for the film was written
by the Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer Jan Garbarek.
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photo by:
Svein Andersen
"A Year along the Abandoned
Road" has been to more than 300 film festivals since it was
released in 1991, and has won 12 different prizes. In 2002 it was
elected "Best Norwegian short film ever" in a vote among
Norwegian film people, and the pop group A-ha used it as a basic
for their music video "Lifelines".
The film is still
in cinema distribution (as a preshow) within Norway, Germany and
France.
Film prints exist in 70mm (5perf,
with 6 track magnetic or DTS sound), and 35mm Anamorphic (Scope,
with Dolby stereo sound). Being intended for the big screen, "A
Year along the Abandoned Road" has not yet been distributed
on video. But we may release it together with some other short films
on BlueRay-DVD within not too long.
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