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Movies

Wide Blue Yonder
Director of Photography
An anti-authority rogue in an old folks' home breaks all the rules and causes mayhem honoring his friend's dying wish to be buried at sea.
Andre omgang
Director of Photography
Andre omgang is the story of a father and his two sons trying to adjust to life's later summers; the father becomes a member of a singles' club, Sverre joins a swingers club, and Erik finds a new woman to live with. The three of them are passionate supporters of Skeid Football Club.
Mozart and the Whale
Director of Photography
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Alt for Egil
Director of Photography
A pizza delivery boy must balance the needs of his sick mother, his mentally retarded friend, and the comatose girl of his dreams.
Cool & Crazy On The Road
Cinematography
A follow up to the original "Cool and Crazy" about the mens choir in Berlevåg in Northern Norway. Here they go on a trip to the United States, after being famous as a result of the first movie.
Elling
Director of Photography
When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two years, the men are released and provided with a state-funded apartment and stipend with the hope they will be able to live on their own.
Når mørket er forbi
Cinematography
"Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trouble. International buyers have started trawling the market, and Josef realizes that the vital natural resources are in the hands of organized crime.
Absolutt Blåmandag
Cinematography
John and Siri Lill are a couple who have been together for most of their forty something years, but are yet to be married. He works for a newspaper, and is a heavy drinker. She is a respected hairdresser, working for Birger, a commom friend. John, usually, bottle-in-hand is an ace at being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Tired of John's drinking, Siri decides to leave him and move to her parents' house. John's drinking then worsens, and their apartment becomes a mess. Siri decides to return to her and John's place, and that's when the Absolute Hangover really begins with a vengeance.
Only Clouds Move the Stars
Director of Photography
Eleven year old Maria has lost her little brother to cancer. Having disappeared into herself, her mother is no longer there for Maria and her father struggles to keep the family together. Maria meets Jacob, who is the same age as she, but with a completely different attitude. Jacob is outgoing, exciting, funny and has wisdom way beyond his tender years. He gradually pulls Maria out of her shell and enables her to come to decisions which will affect her entire life.
Zero Kelvin
Second Unit Cinematographer
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.
Stella Polaris
Director of Photography
Knut Erik Jensen's personal visual poem, an Elegy for a culture that no longer exists. Stella Polaris is a personal document in fiction form of a bygone era and culture in the northernmost part of Norway. At the same time described the current Finnmark in the scene from our own time. The story is narrated by a woman's eyes, both as children in the busy fishing village and as an adult in the present. She returns to the birthplace and remember how life was before the fishing village was closed. Love story between her and her childhood friend is central to the action. 'Stella Polaris' is in the form of associative told with an unconventional dramaturgy.
Bussene
Cinematography
Larry likes to look for usable wreckage in a bus graveyard. One day he makes a nasty discovery.
Det rare
Cinematography
A young boy is waiting for the bus. For a long time the bus arrives, but it is almost completely full. Just one seat is available, one seat in the middle of four beautiful girls ...
The Wedding Party
Director of Photography
A great crazy-comedy from Wam & Vennerød. Bryllupsfesten (English: The wedding party) is a 1989 Norwegian comedy film written by Petter Vennerød, and directed by Vennerød and Svend Wam, starring Knut Husebø and Eli Anne Linnestad. Businessman Carl Otto "Totto" Holm (Husebø) is on the verge of bankruptcy, and plans a staged robbery of the family's Munch engraving.
Karachi
Director of Photography
Sara Philips is pressured into smuggling 2 kg heroin into Norway. She meets up with the narcotics agent Ted Hansen and lets him use her in a scheme to catch the powerful people in the drug cartel. While hiding in Ted's safe house, Ted himself tries to catch the badguys. Fatigued and frustrated with an inefficient police department, untouchable criminals and Sara's sexual provocations, he's on the verge on giving up. However, suddenly Ted gets a clue. A clue leading him to Karachi.
Prinsen av Fogo
Cinematography
Nine year old Carlos lives in Fogo in Cape Verde with his poor grandmother and some relatives, while his mother has gone to rich Norway to earn money to build a house for them in Fogo. But Carlos is impatiently awaiting his mother.
På stigende kurs
Director of Photography
Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last.
X
Director of Photography
Jon Gabriel is in his mid 20s when he meets 13-year-old Flora. X depicts the evolution of their relationship as they struggle to survive in the cold and dirty cityscapes of Oslo in the '80s.
Nattseilere
Camera Operator
Hvilken vei skal du?
Cinematography
A man, a woman, see each other, flirt, have sex, stay together, be together, have trouble, slip apart again.
Twilight's Last Gleaming....
Cinematography
Arve Nor is exposed to a boat accident alone on the sea, taking a settlement with his own identity in his last moment on earth.
Victoria L.
Cinematography
The middle aged widowed Victoria has had to quit job due to work injuries. Helping people is her new goal in life. One days she meets young Carl, suffering from a difficult past, giving her an unforgettable experience.
Julia Julia
Cinematography
Julia washes train coupes for a living. When she meets the married Karl-Henrik, the secretary of the Minister of Justice, she falls in love and gets him involved in criminal activities
Darker Than Night
Second Unit Director of Photography
Ellen and Rolf met 17 years ago, and since then has spent every day and night together. Still together, life shifts between quarrels and passionate love.
The Stone Wood Witches
Director of Photography
Anarchistic fable where we follow the teaching of a modern witch, reconstructed by historical and anthropological knowledge, inspired by the books by Carlos Castaneda.
Bortreist på ubestemt tid
Second Unit Director of Photography
Judith
Director of Photography
A young girl perishes in a life of drug use
Norwegian Building Blocks
First Assistant Camera
A young couple decides to build their dream house, but run into numerous complications in the process. Everything from useless carpenters to building control gets in their way. Norwegian comedian Rolv Wesenlund plays 7 different roles in this movie.
Stadier
Cinematography
Stadier is about letting yourself go.
The Olsen Gang
Camera Operator
Egon Olsen is the leader of the Olsen Gang. While he was in the slammer, he planned how he would steal the fantastic golden figure Keizeroppzatsen.