Kristoffer Borgli :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Kristoffer Borgli

About the artist

Kristoffer Borgli (b. 1985) was born and raised in a small suburb outside of Oslo. A skateboard and a videocamera dominated his youth. He went on to film school and is now directing full time. His music videos have screened at festivals all over the world, earning him awards from the Canadian International Film Festival and the Norwegian Grammy ("spellemann"), to name a few. His short film collaboration with The Golden Filter screened at the SXSW short film competition. A lot of his work has a combination of visual poetry and a daring story, always interesting to watch.

Films

Whateverest, 15'

First the musician Todd Terje speaks: YouTube clips of someone called “Inspector Norse” inspired his dance track of the same name. In real life, Inspector Norse is Marius Solem Johansen. The 27-year-old lives with his sick father in a dismal little Norwegian town, where he runs a tanning studio. Marius hoped to make the big time with his music, but had to accept that no-one was interested: “Whateverest” represents the huge pile of his unfulfilled dreams and plans. A life in the superlative of whatever. The camera is watching when this lonely nerd dances round the supermarket, or when he rampages, completely stoned, through the night-time town dressed as a Christmas tree. An exemplary tale of a lost generation, as only life could write it?