Short film

Cinematography

The Story:

In 2005 HC. Andersen (born 200 years earlier) was celebrated all over and Janet wanted to contribute to this by making an experimental version of “The Ugly Duckling” – set in a lawyers’ office! The acting style and movement were to be derived from the area of dance which Janet undoubtedly knows well and loves. The first time I met up with her was at a dance school where she tried to show me what she had in mind in terms of how the film should be shot. After a while of me making rolls and wavey movements of the body, I told her that with the cameras we were to use a lot of this simply would be impossible to do, but assured her that I would shoot it (for free), cause the idea and set up were so screwed up – or to put it differently, the whole thing was so delightfully innocent of the (more often than not) limiting knowledge of how (illusionistic) films should look like...

Anyways, I turned up with Andrea & Jesper, and it was great fun. We got to try out the most unusual angles (and lenses) and overall had a laugh. The actor was simply superb and had a level of energy that would put Bubber to shame.