SØEN I SPEJLET (THE LAKE IN THE MIRROR)
Shortfilm | DK (2009) | 22min | 16mm
Once a year the students of Sorø Academy held a ritual out in the woods, burning effegies of their teachers on a bonfire. The narrative of the film evolves around the character of a former student that revisits the place of his school days meeting with a group of young students. What first seems to be the fictionalization of the former student’s memory, becomes more and more the documentation of the staging of the ritual – the alumni himself being the director. But as soon as the ritual sets off, all turns to a different state of realness, as the anger and emotion of the young students boil up to an uncanny level of authenticity.
Writer | Director: Johanna Domke
Editor: Angelika von Chamier
Art Director: Katrin Gerheuser
Music | Sound Design: Bilgehan Öziş
Funded by: Kunstrådet, Vestjyllands Kunstmuseum
Premiere: Future Shorts Kopenhagen (Dezember 2009)
Other Festivals: Rencontre International Madrid (April 2010)