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| Carl Størmer and his Detective Camera |
| Original title |
Carl Størmer og hans detektivkamera |
| Type |
Documentaries |
| Director |
Evald Otterstad |
| Short summary |
Carl Størmer is one of Norway´s pioneering photographers, known as the “Northern Lights photographer”. This film fictionalises Størmer´s very first and rather unique photography project, his spy photography of 1890s Kristiania (Oslo). |
| Summary |
Carl Størmer 1874 - 1957. Mathematician and Northern light researcher, professor at University of Oslo. He is best known for being the first to capture the northern light photographically. He is regarded as one of the top scientist at the University in his lifetime. And he was regarded as a “personality” in town, highly esteemed for his humor and his witty remarks. In the 1890’s, as a young student in Kristiania (later Oslo) he used a hidden camera, capturing people he met on the street, especially the celebrities and lovely young women. What was he aiming at? This was in every way an irregular activity at the time. |
| Narrator |
Terje Strømdahl |
| D.O.P |
Carl Størmer |
| Editor |
Evald Otterstad, Ingeranna Krohn-Nydal |
| Composer |
Caliban Quartet |
| Producer |
Evald Otterstad |
| Production company |
Aminda Produksjoner | Box 87 | N-1321 Stabekk
evaldo /at/ online.no |
| Country of origin |
Norway |
| Release date (national) |
2009-03-06 |
| Technical information |
| Format |
DIGIBETA |
| Colour |
B/W |
| Length in min's |
20 |
| Festival participation |
2008 Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad
Screened as Work in Progress
2009 Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway
2009 Eurodok, Norway
2009 Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
2009 Plus Camerimage, Poland
2010 Flickerfest, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia
2010 FIFA - Intl Festival of Films on Art, Montréal
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Director biography:
Evald Otterstad (b.1956) Norwegian Independent filmmaker that have made both short films and feature films, mostly documentaries. His documentaries are in the tradition of poetic and philosophic films, and he explores his themes and subjects in a personal manner. Evald Otterstad also works as a film theorist and do lectures on film making and film science.
Filmography:
Carl Størmer and his Detective Camera (2009)
Dead Madonna, Dagny Juel Przybyszewska (2005)
Cultural Landscape (2004)
Cigarettes (2000).
Thoughts About the City (1999)
The Photographers (1998)
Uncle Oscar (1997)
Aminda's World (1992)
But the Weekends are ours (1994)
The Track Meet (1995)
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