Bakken

Overview

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.

Directed by Nanna Buch, Theodor Nymark, Amin Zouiten, Niels Østergaard, Andreas Tang, Mikkeline Daa Natorp, Ömer Sami, Sofus Agger, Anna Rettl, Bertram von Undall, Amr Hatem, Thomas Dyrholm, Signe Raunkjær, Yujin Jung, Adrian Skarstad, Claes Hedlund, Mikkel Kruse, Mary Cvathe, Rikke Nørgaard, John Skoog, Louis Vernal

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