Days
Producer: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Zayne Armstrong
Co-producer: Una Gjerde
Production Company: Amfititre Produksjon AS
Director: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Zayne Armstrong
Script: Marin Håskjold
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.
Days (pilot)
2022
Genre: Dramatic Feature Film (70 mins)
Producer: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Zayne Armstrong
Co-producer: Fotogalleriet Oslo (Antonio Cataldo, Una Mathiesen Gjerde)
Director: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Script: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong, Lene Berg, Seán Gallen, Jan-Peter Horstmann, Zain Saleh
TRAILER
A number of gig economy laborers' lives intersect one evening in a Berlin bar. A property investor and her assistant allow a possessed GPS to guide them to new exploitative deals. Finding out that her studio sublet might be prematurely coming to an end, Alexandra is launched into an existential crisis about how abstract her role is in her own artistic practice. The gallerist Stefanie so badly wants Alexandra to start doing performances in a storefront space, that she’s getting her ex-girlfriend Hortense evicted, and has tricked a hacktivist to cover her paper trail under the guise of abolishing capitalism. Newcomer Beni tries to confront her social anxiety so she can get out of listening to crass zodiac advice at Marlie’s hostel. Aspiring journalist Charli has not only overstayed her welcome on Nan’s sofa, but she’s also leading on Phillip while fishing for a story about his failed handball career, but personal trainer Nuran is concerned that her exposé might expose his double life. But what did Hortense promise to Hans last night while high and why is it messing up everyone’s bank accounts?
Charli & The Factory
2024
Genre: Dramatic Short Film (33 mins)
Producer: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Co-producer: Amfitrite Productions / Una Mathiesen Gjerde
Director: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Script: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
At a gym, aspiring journalist Charli is distracted from taking photos to accompany an article about lover Philipp’s failed handball career, when a FitWatch explodes and rips off a runner’s hand. While ‘following the money’ Charli goes to a hospital to talk to the runner, but the manager of the gym, Victoria, intervenes to spin the narrative into obscure marketing talkIs the FitWatch manufacturer alone in the negligence of health and safety testing? Did Philipp know that this wasn’t the first explosion? Is Charli’s publisher in on the corruption? A story that looks at the dangers of terms and conditions and the extent of the consumers' ignorance of technology, and how one journalist’s drive to get a good story can turn into an effort to save the lives of aspirational health tech users.
Beni: Under the Influencer
2024, in production
Genre: Dramatic Short Film (30 mins)
Producer: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Co-producer: Amfitrite Production / Una Mathiesen Gjerde
Director: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Script: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Running from past embarrassments, influencer Beni has come to town in order to overcome stage fright and find a new self as a serious thereminist, but it’s not paying off fast enough and debt is racking up. When hairdresser Shawndee shows up with a dubious total-make-over contraption, Beni must give up the digital world that has thus far defined reality.
If These Walls Could Talk to Marlie
2024, in production
Genre: Short Film
Producer: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Co-producer: Amfitrite Production / Una Mathiesen Gjerde
Director: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Script: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
After being outed as a hoax mind-reader on her last podcast, Marlie starts recording episodes for “Earning My Ears”, where she dedicates herself to the lost art of listening. But when her new anti-astrology guest turns out to have a spying compulsion that is more than the stars can shed light on, how can she twist and turn these flaws into redemption? Will Marlie discover more about her subject or her own dilemmas?
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