(Eng: The Hammer of Witches)
2025
Genre: Short-film
Director: Marin Håskjold
Producer: Una Mathiesen Gjerde
In the far North, a group of women are facing charges of witchcraft. If sentenced, they will be executed by the state by burning. In seeking a scapegoat for a sunken merchant fleet, the prosecuting authorities are eager to go beyond mere questioning. Based on real court documents from 17th century Norway, what at first glance might appear as absurd, turns out to not only portray historical events but also mirror our own present.
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2020 - in production
Genre: Series
Director: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Zayne Armstrong
Producer: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Zayne Armstrong
Co-Producer: Una Mathiesen Gjerde
Days takes the form of a soap opera, but rethinks many of the tropes of the genre in order to portray the trials and tribulations of the life of the contemporary neo-liberal laborer. Started in 2018 by artist-filmmakers Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard and Zayne Armstrong, the project aims to counter the effects of precarity by using the experimental serial film project to world-build a new version of their city, both as a fiction and reality.
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(ENG: What is a woman?)
2020
Genre: Short-film
Director: Marin Håskjold
Producer: Marin Håskjold
A discussion occurs in a women's locker room when a trans woman is asked to leave. Someone argues that a woman is something your born as, not something one can become. The discussion escalates as more people get involved. All with different takes on what makes a woman.
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