"LIMERENCE" - A Norwegian artfilm, with beautiful photography and fashion.

Gundrosen

Gundrosen

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Hi,

Me and my girlfriend have written and directed this movie together. It is our first movie. And in our crew we tried to use people with little or no previous film experience. It was a great learning curve for us and we are really looking forward to starting on our new project "Hyperspace"(working title)

We wanted to make something visually stunning, combining art and fashion in a cinematic way. The dress in the movie is from the Norwegian Designer Leila Hafzi and costs more the the whole production. The budget of this film was around $3500, including pre, and post production work.

Credits that follow are in Norwegian. Sorry about that. There is no synopsis. We want you to make your own interpretation of the movie.

So please, boost up the volume, make sure the little HD button is pressed and watch this fullscreen.

(BTW, there is a little nudity in the film, so it might not be safe for work, I dont really know, but figured it is wise to mention it)


En IDAK produksjon.
www.IDAK.no

Skrevet og Regissert av Ida Skjefstad og Isak Gundrosen
Produsert av Mats Førland
Foto og lys av Eivind Egeland
Scenografi og styling av Ines Ertvaag Chitussi
Lyd og Musikk av John Derek Bishop
Klippet av Silje Tjomlid

Hamilton Linares Liboy - Mann
Claudia Bull - Kvinne

Takk til Filmkraft, Vestad Lighting, Høyer Stavanger,
Jon Helge Hesby, Ann Elise Nygård, Gunnar Gundrosen og alle som har støttet oss gjennom hele prosessen.


Check out a few behind the scenes clips here:
Behind the scenes

If you liked the film, you might want to check out the "remix" of the film as well. I have edited this version myself(and with no previous experience, it shows) But we will work further on this version, and the goal is to have both versions playing simultaneously on display in a gallery.
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LIMERENCE SOLANACEAE
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Thank you!

The flower is of personal significance. I have been drawn to it for some time now. And when it bloomed during production we had to shoot it.
It is a "datura", a highly spiritual flower and one of the "deadly nightshades" in the "solanaceae" family. Used in many cultures to make contact with the divine. It is however extremely toxic, and could easily kill you so we dont recommend anyone trying it!
"Datura intoxication typically produces effects similar to that of an anticholinergic delirium (as contrasted to hallucination): a complete inability to differentiate reality from fantasy; hyperthermia; tachycardia; bizarre, and possibly violent behavior; and severe mydriasis with resultant painful photophobia that can last several days. Pronounced amnesia is another commonly reported effect"
Wikipedia

If you watch the remix that is in a way made to show the film from the man's perspective, and my thought behind it was that this version of the film is his experience from a datura trip. I have never ingested the flower myself, but based on reports from others, it could very well play out to be something like the movie describes.
 
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Really like it. Great effort for your first film.

I like the whole death and rebirth theme. Reminded me a bit of Anti-Christ in lots of ways...particularly the use of the oppressive sound design over images of nature.

Nice, modern telling of the wood nymph story.
 
Thanks! Anti-christ, was of some inspiration. The whole sound design of the film is done by a very talented local artist, this was his first try at movie sound design, but I think he did a wonderful job, capturing the "feel" we wanted in the movie. Check out his musical work on his website www.bishop.no it's great!
 
An OK idea, not bad. But I thought there was too much unmotivated camera movement throughout, like f.ex. the guy is at the sewing machine, working on the dress - why exactly does the camera have to move? very distracting and amateur feeling, as if you don't have enough confidence in the image and content for it to just speak for itself and you must move the camera... or maybe the operator had ants in the pants and just had to, had to, had to move. And really, it's pretty off-putting to throw in the definition of "limerence" - as if people don't know; besides, it's not 1950, people have access to google, it takes less than a second to check.

But overall, nice effort, some good images. When I saw the actress in the water, I felt cold, ouch! :)
 
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