pd.no/lokale_nyheter/article7499516.ece From pastoral to the movie set Lately Torvær shared the green grass in Oklungen with the Vikings, zombies, bikers and black metal folks. The capricorn has in fact hijacked a role as an extra in Telemarks first feature film, Saga. - Is everyone ready? Camera goes - here you go! shouts director Jørn Steen. The main character, and the international black metal star, Ted Skjellum walking down the grassy slope with a phone to the ear. He has long hair, sunglasses with mirrors and heavy, worn leather jacket. Right behind him comes Trym Sigurdsen carrying two shields and a bunch of swords. - Ok. Well, says Ted and pass Torvær which is chained after having refused to follow orders to graze inside the enclosure. Now the set primadonna chewing leisurely on a mouthful of grass and watching the rockers approaching the camera. Behind it stands the director shirtless with a t-shirt over his head as protection against the sun. - I think it would be nice if you point up there, Ted, suggest the actress instructor Anne-Sophie Erichsen and illustrates the movement. - So you both look up and to the camera, she explains to nodding from the guys. Based on saga Saga is a film about filmmaking. Its about a rock video director who decides to shoot a Viking movie on a lowbudget and get with the friends from black metal and motorcycle community. The story is based on The legends of Øyrbyggjene, an Icelandic saga that reviews disputes between individuals and families in the 1000s. - In one of these we find Torolv Bægefot. He was a resource person in his time, but also some lousy cunning and quarrelsome guy who sulked him self to death, says Steen who are self-proclaimed Viking enthusiast and sworn biker fan. In this movie he realized the dream stage: Vikings on motorcycles. The script he has wrote with his daughter Hedda Hørran. She is a trained photographer and has a year behind on authors program in Bø. - Ive been with my dad at work since I was one year, says the 25 -yearold. - Since we have been cooperating much. It has been a long process to develop the script, but then we found initially, we worked every time I came home. He had already envisioned the pictures. So it was up to me to write it down and create a dialogue so natural as possible. Like night and day In the next recording scene sitting Bægefot, in Trond Hannemyr figure, and look beyond the Viking village built into the depths of Oklungen green forests. Five cameras and a drone working together to capture atmospheric images: children run barefoot after another and play. The men swordsfight and chopping wood. The women embroider and bear heavily. The hens cackling, perspire freely and everything is seemingly pure and simple idyllic Sunday afternoon. - But it quickly becomes gloomy when the sun goes down and the smoke machine turned on, revealing Steen. For wrangler Bægefot are obviously not rest in his grave, and Saturday night was the scene where he is resurrected from the dead as the modern zombie, recorded. The pictures are kept secret to premiere in 2015. Has already excited fans waiting for the film abroad. So far the director an oral distribution agreement with connections in South Korea, Japan and the United States. - Its been a hectic weekend, admits Steen. - It spins a little head now. Short way to the location Recording began in June and ends in September. It is mainly laid to lower Telemark, to avoid the costs of hotel accommodation and service. The only long-distance is Ted Skjellum, aka Nocturno Culto, from Tynset. He is known from bands like Darkthrone and Sarke, and have a fan base that already in the late 80s wrote a letter from East Timor, Panama and the Soviet Union. Now he is a guests on Eidanger for summer. - Ive stood a lot on stage and made at the time an art film. If you dig well in NRK archives you will find possibly a few music videos too, says Skjellum. - But this is my first time on a film of such a large format. I had to implement some simple actor trying to advance, and it went well. I was praised, smiling the rocker. - Now Ive got time to prepare myself mentally. It gets you when you live deep in the woods and spend a lot on a stump and think. Not a bead of sweat reveals that the filming takes place in the all-time hottest July. - Below, I notice that people talk about swimming all the time. Im not used to that. Its sort of winter that comes, and I do not like having the whole body under water. It will stay with a shower, smiles Skjellum. - I bought myself a summer shirt on Downtown, but on the set I have to run the same style. Leather jacket and black pants. This summer has just gone too fast. There are so many wonderful folks attending. Im impressed. Fantastic is the word that recurs across the board. It usually gets the adjective with its name, landowner John Bassebo. He has made his property available, helped with carpentry and lend more or less well-behaved animals. - The sheep make sure that it is not completely overgrown here, but they ran home again yesterday. They thought maybe it was too hot, laughing farmer who last year was seconded to 300 participants on a back to basics festival. - Its fun that happens in Oklungen. Its boring to be out here alone. People in the village are tolerant, and it has only been positive feedback, he said. - Ive had the summer of my time, adds Skjellum from the side.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:49:11 +0000
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