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Does it exist, the radical staged documentary? Yes, it does. It has been created by Danish filmmaker Jon Bang Carlsen. We will screen his film DEJA VU and the director will meet with our students.
As one of Denmark’s most innovative and original filmmakers, Jon Bang Carlsen is known for having developed his own genre – the radical staged documentary – creating films that shift between documentary and fiction. Graduated from The Danish Film School in 1976. Worked as a writer, director, performer with the groundbreaking Danish theatre group "Solvognen" from 1971 to 1978.
About DEJA VU
The film originates years ago in my childhood home in rural Denmark when I did a dreadful act, that still reverberates within me. My father hung a painting of Jesus above my bed to protect me. Every evening before closing my eyes I begged the man on the cross to look after my family. When my family collapsed in spite of all my prayers I blinded his gift. I still remember the smell of the burning canvas and the shock of suddenly seeing wallpaper instead of Jesus' loving eyes. Since then I have travelled the world with my camera to find new ways of looking at life. All the thousands of shots I have designed while hiding behind the camera are both a presentation of various characters, fictional as well as factual, in different landscapes over more than four decades, but at the same time they constitute a picture book of my own thoughts while trying to find a way through life.