De Udstillede
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jesper Jargil
Lotte Aske Fredskov
Claus Lowert
Niels Peter Johansen
Joachim Holbeck
Janus Billeskov Jansen
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In 1996, acclaimed filmmaker Lars Von Trier undertook an ambitious experiment in power and control. For two months, 53 actors inhabited 19 rooms of a Copenhagen museum, improvising a complex melodrama in which Von Trier and a colony of ants in New Mexico dictated their moods and motivations. The film focuses on the participants in this highly manipulative performance. Mentally exhausted, the actors lose themselves in the experiment, and the boundaries between fact and fiction begin to shift. As reality and theater blur together, the high concept art piece becomes a mesmerizing portrait of people whose lives-fictional or not-are being turned inside out.
Director
Jesper Jargil
Film Details
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (European Film Market) February 9-20, 2000
Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (Documentary: Imagining Reality) August 13-27, 2000.
Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival March 1-11, 2001.
Shown at the Mill Valley Film Festival in Mill Valley, California October 5-15, 2000.
35mm
color
dialogue Danish
subtitled English
