John Skoog

John Skoog

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John Skoog

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Bakken
Director
In three long, uninterrupted one-takes shot over a single summer’s day and night, the camera moves slowly through the park while the guests alternately react to the lens or try to ignore it. A gang of Pierrot clones mingle with the visitors. The film is an joint creation between students of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Danish Film School, initiated independently by the students. Using Bakken as a frame - historically, architecturally and socially - all the contributors helped develop the concept for both the film and the performative interventions in front of the camera, which are sometimes inseparable from the hedonistic and condensed semi-fictional universe that an amusement park is.
(31 mars)
Director
A texting John Skoog (Ridge, GFF 2019) takes a poetic look at The Invisible Man and the last cinema screen that showed film in Denmark before lockdown.
Ridge
Producer
The story is composed of fragments of lives lived in northern Scania. Some of them are mundane, while others border on the magical. But like shadows over the landscape, some protagonists are distinguished: Beata, a seasonal worker who comes to Sweden for the first time; Aaron, a young man with a broken heart returning to the place where he grew up, and Billie, a girl lost in her first summer vacation. As the film follows their lives, which slowly merge with the landscape.
Ridge
Screenplay
The story is composed of fragments of lives lived in northern Scania. Some of them are mundane, while others border on the magical. But like shadows over the landscape, some protagonists are distinguished: Beata, a seasonal worker who comes to Sweden for the first time; Aaron, a young man with a broken heart returning to the place where he grew up, and Billie, a girl lost in her first summer vacation. As the film follows their lives, which slowly merge with the landscape.
Ridge
Director
The story is composed of fragments of lives lived in northern Scania. Some of them are mundane, while others border on the magical. But like shadows over the landscape, some protagonists are distinguished: Beata, a seasonal worker who comes to Sweden for the first time; Aaron, a young man with a broken heart returning to the place where he grew up, and Billie, a girl lost in her first summer vacation. As the film follows their lives, which slowly merge with the landscape.
Alien Tourist
Imagine: An alien has landed on a foreign planet, where life once existed. The alien moves around aimlessly through dark shifting nature, occasionally coming across a frozen figure, a human, poised in time and action, in a deserted wilderness where the sunlight is now out of reach. ALIEN TOURIST comes together as a conglomeration of fragments - of images, places, frozen moments and echoing sounds that present the viewer with a vision of our world, now gone.
Shadowland
Director
Short film exploring various American film locations which have substituted for other locations all over the world.
Reduit
Producer
The mapping of a desolate house in southern Sweden encased in iron and cement, standing as a monument of one man's loneliness and paranoia.
Reduit
Director
The mapping of a desolate house in southern Sweden encased in iron and cement, standing as a monument of one man's loneliness and paranoia.
Förår
Writer
A 12-year-old girl armed with a loaded hunting rifle walks down the main street of a small town. This film recreates the memory of that day. Things happened, but it's hard to remember in what order.How people got from one place to another. What people said.
Förår
Director
A 12-year-old girl armed with a loaded hunting rifle walks down the main street of a small town. This film recreates the memory of that day. Things happened, but it's hard to remember in what order.How people got from one place to another. What people said.
Federsee
Producer
A anti-ethnographic film that looks at the traditional folklore surrounding the celebration of Fasnet (carnival) in the small Schwabian town of Bad Buchau which is haunted by the violent story of a father drowning his family in the nearby lake, Federsee.
Federsee
Writer
A anti-ethnographic film that looks at the traditional folklore surrounding the celebration of Fasnet (carnival) in the small Schwabian town of Bad Buchau which is haunted by the violent story of a father drowning his family in the nearby lake, Federsee.
Federsee
Director
A anti-ethnographic film that looks at the traditional folklore surrounding the celebration of Fasnet (carnival) in the small Schwabian town of Bad Buchau which is haunted by the violent story of a father drowning his family in the nearby lake, Federsee.
Late on Earth
Editor
A girl is having a smoke. Her moped has broken down. A guy is out walking too many dogs. A bunch of girls are playing football near a canyon. Dusk is falling and the magnificent cinematography lends a feeling that something greater than ourselves is at hand.
Late on Earth
Writer
A girl is having a smoke. Her moped has broken down. A guy is out walking too many dogs. A bunch of girls are playing football near a canyon. Dusk is falling and the magnificent cinematography lends a feeling that something greater than ourselves is at hand.
Late on Earth
Director
A girl is having a smoke. Her moped has broken down. A guy is out walking too many dogs. A bunch of girls are playing football near a canyon. Dusk is falling and the magnificent cinematography lends a feeling that something greater than ourselves is at hand.