Ane Hjort Guttu

Manifesto

Ane Hjort Guttu

Yamile Calderon, Maiken Håvarstein

A small art academy in fused into a huge university as one out of many institutes. They have to follow all the university´s administrative procedures. But secretly, the students and staff decide to self organize as an independent art school. They create their own courses, programmes and leadership, secretly and without the university´s knowledge.

The Lost Dreams of Naoki Hayakawa

Daisuke Kosugi, Ane Hjort Guttu

Daisuke Kosugi

Art director Naoki Hayakawa works 16 hours daily in a creative, neo-totalitarian advertisement company in Tokyo. The working pressure causes a mental condition between sleep and wakefulness where he has strange and wonderful dreams.

Tiden går

Ane Hjort Guttu

What can we do when art fails? Or when film fails art? Time Passes is Ane Hjort Guttu’s response to such questions. Inspired by Peter Watkins’ Edward Munch, the result is a brilliantly incisive film about not only the artistic process but also time, power and the possibility of living a life of dignity.

Møbler er ikke bare møbler

Ane Hjort Guttu

Møbler er ikke bare møbler (Furniture isn’t just furniture) is centered around an ongoing dialogue between a woman and a man who have settled inside the display exhibitions of an IKEA warehouse. They alternately read aloud from the marketing catalogue and discuss their relationship in a language mainly composed of hackneyed phrases.

Untitled (The City at Night)

Ane Hjort Guttu

UNTITLED (THE CITY AT NIGHT) consists of an interview with an anonymous artist, who has for twenty years worked on one single work: A huge archive of abstract drawings representing episodes the artist has witnessed through nightly walks in the city.

Dette er alle steder

Ane Hjort Guttu

Damla Kilickiran, Gülay Kilickiran

The Arab spring is a backdrop for the dialogue between two women in the suburb Tensta in Stockholm, and the film puts forward a connection between the global protest movements of the past three years and the riots in the Swedish suburbs.