Thomas Østbye

6 forestillinger om frihet

Thomas Østbye

Kjell Solberg, Rune Johansen

6 Conceptions of Freedom is a study of Alexander Kiellands plass in Oslo, looking at the social and physical frames of imagination. Its a documentary that explores loneliness and powerlessness in our ideal of freedom. Is freedom a question of uncertainty or happiness, action or condition?

Imagining Emanuel

Thomas Østbye

Emanuel Agara, Asgeir Føyen

Emanuel's identity is unknown, and his life has been put on hold for eight years. He claims to be from Liberia, but the Norwegian authorities believes he's from Ghana. He can't be returned to a country he's not registered in.

Human

Thomas Østbye

The documentary film HUMAN study what’s human – out of context. Without familiar purposes and surroundings, the film plays our labeling instinct against the factual meeting with another person. How close can we get to another human before it gets inhuman, – or maybe too human?

Out of Norway

Emanuel Agara, Thomas Østbye

Emanuel Agara

In 'Out of Norway' Emanuel (from Imagining Emanuel 2011) is refused to travel from Norway back to Liberia. So now he must flee again - in the other direction! Follow his video diary, and you will see that it is not as simple as it seems.

Drømme kan du gjøre senere

Thomas Østbye

Documenting a phone call to the "Norwegian directorate of immigration", this film is about a group of asylum seekers that have been six years in Norway without basic human rights.

Take #2

Thomas Østbye

Marie Blokhus, Celine Engebrigtsen

Two ladies in a room: A casting agent and an actress. This hybrid documentary deals with empathy, acting and authenticity. Marie starts: When I enter into a role, I imagining that every individual has a core, with the same potential emotional life.

Ting

Thomas Østbye

Things is an attempt to approach the world without filling it up with preconceived ideas and purposes. An attempt to film things, without reducing them into mere means to build a story or statement. Things is on one hand a series of seemingly objective recordings without subject or superstructure, on the other hand it is Østbye’s most intimate and personal work, with no official theme or story to hide behind.

Enhver har rett til

Thomas Østbye

Direct Cinema study of the first Norwegian Climate Lawsuit and the hard hitting Supreme Court ruling. In this case environmental organizations sued the Norwegian state over petroleum lisencing in the Barents sea.