Movies: Bjørn Melhus

When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered ...

Although photographer Horn has been back from Scotland for a while, he still has to think about his irritating and fleeting encounter with a stranger on his journey. Due to a mix-up, some of the stranger's valuables are sent to him....

Melhus slips into the role of the captain of a space ship, accompanied by a bold man and a boy in his communion suit. Threatened by a dark power and while stars are exploding in the background, all three perambulate in dialogues, cut from different s...

The film [dramatic music continues], which uses subtitles of audio descriptions from various war films, is a reflection on our current media consumption and the increasing normalization of war....

In a post-apocalyptic world not dissimilar to the present, SUGAR, a humanoid robot that can feel, think and dance, is sent out to bring a human touch back to humanity. SUGAR finally encounters a HON (Human Organism Normal), a post-influencer who, in...

Referencingthe death scene of Sol Roth, played by Edward G. Robinson, in the 1973 movie Soylent Green, and old man on a hospital bed moves through an endless hallway and reflects in a monologue on the 11years of his life and how husmands were able to...

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Doors of Reception is a collage of door sounds from various science fiction films, creating an abstract sound painting of opening and closing colour fields. A recurring theme of the genre is passing through doors and being locked in or locked out on ...

An exorcist ritual in a hotel room at night falling on Which a spasm-ridden medium predicts "sudden destruction"....

“The End Time” was developed for the exhibition Spectral Afterlives at Sprengel Museum Hannover on occasion of the publication of “Spectral Afterlives – Bjørn Melhus and his Media Doubles” with an essay by Elisabeth Bronfen. The focus of the 4-chann...

Against the backdrop of an unfathomable megalopolis, in a story that follows the associative qualities of a dream logic, the protagonists quote from concepts of neo-liberal elitism, and a mix of religious delusions and hallucinations of the apocalyps...

In reference to the trailer of Psycho (USA 1960), narrated in German by Alfred Hitchcock himself, a gardener with a chainsaw guides us through the premises of the Herbert Gerisch Foundation in Schleswig-Holstein 51 years later. The visit ends, just l...

In the video installation “Again & Again” Melhus tells—not without humor—the story of a person engaged in an inner dialogue on the subject of reproduction, only to be rejected by the clone whose qualities are superior to his own. The possibility of m...

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Toast, buttered or not, is an example of commodification of food. Symbolic of a society where time is money, the toaster allows for instant gratification. Just be careful not to burn it....

With her green bow in her hair, a naïve Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz embodies an aspect of the artist’s own personal context. She is dreaming about going beyond the confines of her urban surroundings, amongst thousands of flickering windows in apart...

A short story about new bodies, the power of denial, and a state of no sunshine. Two infantile bodies float in a cyberspace ball, connected by two subconscious bodies in the background. The attempt at unification and metamorphosis is interrupted by o...