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with Ulf Nielseng / 8 min loop / 2500 x 800 / 2015
U. T. shows a man running along a river in a larger delta. The surroundings change from dense forests, pasture fields to open fields, the landscape narrows and ends at sandy banks which are eventually dissolved by the sea. The scene is a one-take shot with a hand held camera. The film is about the life span and the fading of it, but it's also about the performance in the production itself.
director Jannicke Låker / DoP Jannicke Låker / assistant and boat driver dolly Gard Olav Frigstad / Jannicke Låker © 2015
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with Marika Enstad og Josef Torner / 12 min / 1920×1080p / 2014
Boogie With You is a 12 minutes long drama. The film shows a yong man in the home of an middle aged woman, that he met late night after closing time. The very drunk woman holds a inconsistent monologue about women’s rights, solidarity and the Norwegian petroleum. The work is about loneliness and power games.
director Jannicke Låker / screenplay Jannicke Låker / DoP Hilde Malme / sound Erik Ljunggren / consultants Per Teljer & Helga Fjordholm / producer Jannicke Låker © 2014
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9 1/2 minutes is a video letter from a Norwegian woman to her husband abroad. He works as a relief worker in for example Africa. The video starts with idyllic scenes from the Nordic landscape and continues at home by the dinner table laid for two. The woman has received a letter from her husband where he mentions a dark girl. The letter will be the subject during the dinner. After some glasses of wine the situation starts to change and the woman gets aggressive and paranoid, and it ends in racialist outburst.
9 1/2 minutes / 9' 30'' / color / Norwegian language / English subtitles / original mini DV/ master mini DV / screening format DVD / Jannicke Låker©2000
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with Jan Dietrich / 9 min / 1920x1080p / 2013
ABLAZE is about Joe, an alcoholic homeless man that has been living his life on the streets for a couple of decades. His main goal is to fill his stomach with garbage from McDonalds and booze. Joe has no dignity and his attempts on social contact are often returned in brutality. The tittle means “on fire”, and the theme is about the absolute loneliness.
director Jannicke Låker / screenplay Jannicke Låker / DoP Jannicke Låker/ sound Erik Ljunggren/ cast Jan Dietrich, Roman Kanonik, Toni Schneider, Norbert Stöß, Erla Haraldsdottir / producer Jannicke Låker © 2014
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with Lo Kauppi / 35mm (1:1,85) / 36 min / Distribution Norwegian Film Institute
As you read this is a half hour short film, uncompromisingly depicting the last three days in the life of a woman. We observe her trough an almost static camera, inside her apartment. With its insisting angle and carefully composed frame of light and colours the film can almost remind of a painting, where an alarming story is being told.
Eva is a successful and serious-working journalist, good looking with a loving boyfriend. The depiction of her home reveals a creative atmosphere in a “Berliner-altbau” apartment. Counterpointing this ‘still frame’, which constitutes Eva’s reality, are the sounds of everyday-life outside – children running in the stairs, the newspaper arriving through the door slot, traffic and people in the streets, a drunken man singing, a woman shouting. The everyday-liveliness from outside re-enforces the isolation Eva has set herself in, as she approaches the point of no return. Carefully stripping the story of drama, sentimentality and the preconceived ugliness of an unhappy life – what remains for the audience to observe, to identify with? This is not a film about “the others”. Nor does it give any answers, but it raises questions around a subject which has increasing actuality in Western society.
director Jannicke Låker / DoP Hilde Malme / sound Erik Ljunggren / set design Olav Myrtvedt / consultants Per Teljer, Bo Krister Wallström, Egil Kolstø / producer Helga Fjordholm / / Fjordholm Film Production/
Distribution Norwegian Film Institute /Jannicke Låker & Fjorholm Productions © 2011
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with Marika Enstad/ 9 min / 1920x1080p /2008
Sunday Mornings is a video about a woman coming home after a heavy-drinking night out. The scene is 9 minutes and describes the woman’s slow-moving journey from the front door of her flat to the bedroom. The video shows an independent person that finds herself in a comical but humiliating state. As a result of tiredness and a heavy consumption of alcohol, the woman is, through a banal incident, exposed for a mortal situation in her home.
director Jannicke Låker / DoP Jannicke Låker & Per Teljer / sound Anita di Bianco / consultant Per Teljer / Jannicke Låker © 2008
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with Bendik Grossman, Hilde Tørdal, Paul Giangrossi, Per Teljer og Jannicke Låker
The video ” Sketch for a rape scene ” had the intention of being a work that shows the production of an action scene. The male actor has problem in performing his roll as an abuser. And an awkward situation between the director and the actor arise. In his roll as an abuser, the man becomes a victim of the director’s mental violence. The scenes are repeated, over and over again, interrupted new take etc. The result/ outcome shows the repetitions of the scenes.
Ironically the video changed character during the production that shows the “stunt” in my works. The director was supposed to rule during the production, but in the real situation, the power instead alternated between the actors. During the editing of this material I discerned that the staccato, fumbling and unprogressive action had the value of being rather strange and humorous.
Sketch for a rape scene / 12' loop / Norwegian language/ eng text / 720x576 (4:3) DV / Written, directed and edited by Jannicke Låker / Jannicke Låker ©2003
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with Lore Calvies / 6 ½ min / 1920x1080i / 2007
We are outside. It is night. In the darkness, we see a woman running. We hear the wind, distant traffic and her heavy breathing. She is staggering. She is bleeding from her nose and mouth. Something has happened, something brutal and violent. She is no longer young. She places herself in relation to time. She takes her place in it. There is a before and an after, of which nothing is told. The video is monotonous, repetitive. From what is she running? What is she leaving behind? The location is Spreewald Park in Berlin at night. It's shot from the back of a car where my focus is on the driver instructing him on the speed level. The actress follows the car, she's not to fall out of the frame. I focus on acting as a process, and on the moment where acting and fiction turn into reality.
director Jannicke Låker / DoP Jannicke Låker / driver dolly Paul Giangrossi/ consultants Per Teljer / Jannicke Låker © 2015
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with Ulrike Hanke Hänsch
DoB Jannicke Låker
Sound Jannicke Låker
Sills Bo Krister Wallström
Film format HDV 1920x1080i
duration / varighet 2'51''
Year of production/produksjonsår 2007
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with Jan Dietrich.
Team on Set: Jannicke Låker Per Teljer and Claudia Reinhardt. Special Effect Make-Up by Tamar Aviv and Jörn Seifert. DoP Jannicke Låker. Directed and edited by Jannicke Låker. Jannicke Låker © 2006
Playing Dead shows a young man lying in a puddle of blood in front of his wheelchair, presumably the victim of a murder, immobile, dead. A banal tune crackles out from the static of a transistor radio– this, too, a reference to horror films. Upon closer inspection, we become aware of the forcefully suppressed breathing and the lying man's effort to maintain this uncomfortable position. The scene shifts, the actor struggles with his role, trapped in his make-up and the carefully assembled special effects scenario, completely at the mercy of the director and the camera. He is only playing dead, yet his suffering is real.
Valeria Schulte-Fischedick (based on excerpts from BE-Magazine #13, Ed. Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, 2006, pp. )
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VideoStar is an ironic self-portrait made for an exhibition at Stenerenmuseet in Oslo. The video is a home-video interview and exposes myself by the kitchen table attacking the internal art society. I express my frustration with curators, art-critics and my physical health or aging looks in relation to my career. The video is shoot with a fisheye lens and the voice is pitched down.
VideoStar / 12' / Norwegian language / 720x 576 PAL / Jannicke Låker©2003
Quotes:
-while Tracey Emin is exposing herself, Jannicke Låker likes to expose others...
Jan Kokkin, Morgenbladet September 2003
Jannicke Låker’s videos are manipulative, repugnant, malice and immense tasteless. Låker creates a distorted picture of the everyday life and the evil of gloominess, at the same time as she‘s investigating the outlying lands of the burlesque comedy. She is making a travesty of those who are unsuccessful, lonely and dumb. In her collection of characters there are no heroes, only antiheroes, and in the bottom there’s a desire of exploiting herself as much as she exploit others.
Excerpt from a text by Tone Hansen 2002
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with Kenneth Olafsen
The Dell show a man standing in the middle of a field in the night. Inspired by the moon and darkness the boondocks tries out his skill in martial art. He’s shouting out in paranoia to the enemies lurking in the bushes. His unsteady moves reminds of boy-rooms activities and Bruce Lee films.
The Dell / 8' / loop / color / Norwegian language / original mini DV/ master mini DV / screening format DVD / Jannicke Låker©2002
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with Anders T Andersen
Beautiful People is a black humorous portrett of a man from the upper part of the soziety in Norway. He is explaining to a “pal” in a hotel lobby, why women from “down there” are wearing burka. In his eager, to explain, what is actually going on under the “disguise “ the man's mind drifts out in sexual fantasies and desires. The film is about prejudice but also about exoticism revealed by a simple mind.
Team on set: Terje Nicolaisen as pal / DoP Jannicke Låker / Camera 2 Åslaug Krokann Berg.
BP #1 / 5min / colour / stereo / Norwegian language / English subtitles / original mini DV/ master mini DV / Written, directed and edited by Jannicke Låker / Jannicke Låker©2002
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with Jannicke Låker
Marotte means big dolls for puppet shows. The film shows madness, schizophrenia and paranoia.
Marotte / 3 minutes / sound, bw and colour / 720x576 PAL / camera Per Teljer
/ directed and edited by Jannicke Låker / Jannicke Låker © 1998
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Between my Legs
From a video-performance series called non editing video works.
Between my Legs / 2 minutes / sound and colour / recorded with VHS compact / 720x576 PAL / directed by Jannicke Låker / Jannicke Låker © 1998
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Spiderwoman
From a video-performance series called non editing video works.
Spiderwoman / 1 minutes / sound and colour / recorded with VHS compact / 720x576 PAL / directed by Jannicke Låker / Jannicke Låker © 1998
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21 okt 1997 is an ironic home made video interview with myself preparing for an exhibition at UKS in Oslo.
OBS! Sound will be restored!
21 okt 1997 / 4 minutes / sound and colour / recorded with VHS compact / 720x576 PAL / Jannicke Låker © 1997
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Sitting Duck
Sitting Duck / 8 minutes / sound and colour / recorded at Hi-8 / 720x576 PAL / Jannicke Låker © 1997
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no. 17 / 12 minutes / sound and colour / recorded at Video8 / 720x576 PAL / Jannicke Låker © 1997
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“Girls” shows a fight between two classmates at the square in Trondheim. The situation is arranged, but as the fight develops the fiction turns into reality.
Jenter (Girls) / 7 minutes / sound and colour / recorded with Video8 / 720x576 PAL / Jannicke Låker © 1997
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with Jannicke Låker
Solitude is the first script-based movie, where I play both the roles of my sister and myself.
The film depicts scenes from my own youth in the 80's.
Solitude / 5 minutes / sound and colour / recorded with VHS compact / 720x576 PAL / camera Per Teljer / written, directed and edited by Jannicke Låker / Jannicke Låker © 1996
