Norwegian Films
Panta Rei
Original title Alt flyter
Type Documentaries
Director Lars Nilssen
Short summary Jan Wanggaard was a World Champion windsurfer in the 1980´s. He left the sport at the peak of his career to study industrial design. He then moved to Lofoten, where he has lived since 1989. The film follows Wanggaard during three years, from conception to implementation of the art project Planet Lofoten – an installation of the solar system in Western Lofoten on a scale of 1:200 million.
Screenplay Lars Nilssen
D.O.P Lars Nilssen
Editor Carl Jurgens
Composer Aggie Frost, Per Martinsen
Sound Lars Nilssen, Mads Staff Jensen
Producer Lars Nilssen
Production company Sherpa Film Norway as | Neuberg gt. 14b | N-0367 Oslo |
Tel + 47 22 55 40 10 | e-mail: lars @ sherpafilm.no
Country of origin Norway
Release date (national) 2006-01
Release date (international) 2006-06
Technical information
Format DVCAM
Colour Colour
Length in min's 54
International sales Sherpa Film Norway as
Distributor (Norway only) Sherpa Film Norway as
Festival participation 2006 Tromsø Film Festival
2006 Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad
2006 Hemsedal Mountain Film Festival, Norway
2007 Int'l Festival of Films on Art, Montreal
2007 Kontakt - Ukranian Documentary Film Festival - Norwegian special
2007 Mountainfilm in Telluride, USA
2007 Festival de Cine de Huesca, Spain
2007 Internationales Berg und Abenteuer Film Festival, Austria
2007 Festival du Film d'Environement de Paris, France
2008 Mountain Film Festival, Zakopane, Poland
Prizes received 2007 Int'l Festival of Films on Art, Montreal: Award for Creativity
URL http://www.sherpafilm.no

© 2003 Norwegian Film Institute

 

Director biography:
Lars Nilssen (born 1958) has made several award-winning shorts, including Finale (1989), The Dive (1992) and The Circle of Life (1997). The latter won the Dolby Award at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in 1997. He has also made one feature length documentary, and has shot and directed twenty-one programmes about Bård and Lars going fishing for NRK. He has also directed numerous music videos and published three books.