Morten Hovland

Sæterbakken skriver Sauermugg

Morten Hovland

Stig Sæterbakken

In 1998, the Norwegian author, Stig Saeterbakken decided to write a novel in one week. Neighbor and director Morten Hovland was allowed to film the project, which became not just about the act of writing the novel Sauermugg, but also involves the authors thoughts on philosophy, literature, art and life in general. Stig Saeterbakken died on January 25Th 2012, and as such this film serves as a rare portrait of one of the most assured and uncompromising voices of contemporary Norwegian literature.

Supernova

Morten Hovland

Gard B. Eidsvold, Ansgar Korsæth

A boy and his father spend a day at the beach and discuss life, death and the exploding sun.

Idyll

Morten Hovland

Marit Andreassen, Ingar Helge Gimle

Two tourists on a beach suddenly witness our indifference wash ashore. A film with a different perspective on the anxiety we feel and the dilemma we're faced with when confronted with other people's suffering.

Shit Happens

Morten Hovland

Jan Fredrik Pindsle, Eli Bergman

Konrad and Roger robs a bank, but shit happens when Konrad discovers that Linda works there...

Medium Raw

Morten Hovland

Bartek Kaminski, Henriette Steenstrup

A gray man enters a steak house. He is caught in a sizzling jealousy drama between the chef and the waitress.

Ottar Gladtvet - en norsk filmpioner

Morten Hovland, Jan Anders Diesen

Ottar Gladtvet (1890-1962) was included in the film's first blooming at the turn of the century. He decided early on to become a movie man, and he was a projectionist and theater director before he was twenty. The family bought their first cinema in 1906 and ran for a while two cinemas in Oslo. Later Gladtvet also became a cinematographer and film director, and he was the country's largest producer of commercials before World War II. This film tells about Gladtvets life as a film man, and his film making between 1910 and 1940.