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Documentary film Dear Deer

Just because they're nice doesn't mean they like you

Jacques Derrida’s staring cat Logos, a bowing deer, domestic servants, a headstrong mare and the director’s 19 years younger boyfriend are some of the characters we meet in the essayfilm Dear Deer. The distanced and slightly voyeuristic documentary footage, mainly shot in Argentina and Japan, is accompanied by a voiceover in which asymmetrical relations, trans-species empathy, embarrassment and shame are discussed in a both investigative, descriptive and confessive manner.

Production and distribution

Production Year:
2019
Production country:
Germany
Co production country:
Norway
Financing company:
Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond
Producer:
Endre Aalrust

Director

  • Endre Aalrust

    Endre Aalrust (b. 1973) is Norwegian artist and film maker. He lives in Berlin and Hamar, and studied at the University of Oslo and National Academy of the Arts in Bergen. Recent solo exhibitions : Urc de Triomphe, Kunstbanken, Hamar, (2015), The Rise and Fall of Rise and Shine, Gallery Erik Steen, Oslo (2011), Free Lunch, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York (2010), Sofa So Good, Galerie Sandy Brown, Berlin (2009). Endre Aalrust has shown videos in film and video festivals such as Rencontres, Paris/Berlin/Madrid (2003/2011), Viper film and Videofestival, Kunsthalle Basel (2004), European Media Festival, Osnabrück (2002) and screenings in Caracas, Moscow, Prague, Stockholm, Berlin, Leipzig, Bergen, Buenos Aires and Oslo.

    Complete filmography:
    2015 - Portrait of Man (Experimental documentary)
    2015 - Death in the Afternoon (Experimental Documentary)
    2011 - Carnal Incontinence (Experimental Documentary)
    2008 - Object > Fitting > Fit Object disproportionally (Fiction)
    2007 - Win Win (Fiction)
    2004 - Ornamentik der Aufklärung (Fiction)
    2002 - As if there's always free Cheese in the Mousetrap (Fiction)
    2001 - Happy Together (Fiction/ 2-screen video Installation)
    1999 - Poker (Fiction)

    Endre Aalrust

Crew

Director:
Endre Aalrust
Screenplay:
Endre Aalrust
Cinematographer:
Endre Aalrust
Editor:
Endre Aalrust
Composer:
Bjørn Hatterud
ProductionDesigner:
Endre Aalrust
Sound Design:
Endre Aalrust
Sound Recording:
Endre Aalrust
Script:
Endre Aalrust
Narrator:
Tomas Sinclair Spencer

Technical information

Genre:
Essay
LGBT
Format:
DCP 2k
Screen ratio:
16:9
Length in min's:
19'
Language:
English

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