In the works and Rutger

Lately I have been working a lot. In the last 3 weeks I have been on 5 different jobs. It all started out when Jais at Picturewise called me and asked if I wanted to be 2nd assistant on a Rutger Hauer shoot. I couldn't say no and ended up doing some focus pulling as well. Got a nice picture with the icon. He's very nice by the way. The project had an insanely talented Director to it called Sil Van der Woerd, and a great DOP from the UK, Keidrych Wasley. Who took this awesome shot.

Second job was 2 days later. A 2 day commercial with DOP Morten Rasmussen that I hadn't met before. He is a very experienced Photographer. Check him out on his website. As a fun coincidence we both studied in Prague. But 30 years apart.

Third job was just shooting a plate for an interesting short film that will be produced in Aarhus in August. Nice to meet the people there they made some stuff before. Check out Lonetower for more.

Fourth job was exciting for me. A 35mm shoot in Copenhagen for some guys who finished the Super16 course a few years ago. Very efficient shooting, and fun to work with a 35mm.

And I just finished working a new commercial project that I think will be quite big in Danish TV in the fall.

I saw two films lately. The Expandables and Machete. The short story. Expendables sucked bigtime and Machete rocked. I love Robert Rodriquez' way of making a gritty action film. With a low budget look at times but great actors and awesome action scenes it's well worth the watch.

Bet you didn't expect this!

Yes, writing again. Crazy.

So basically I'll try and keep it work/film related here. But for now a few quick updates since film school.

I graduated with cinematography as a specialty. You can see my final project here. I moved back to Denmark to be with Sigrid and start my career in the film business here. Sigrid and I got a beautiful son. His name is Eivind Örn and he is 10 months old now. Sigrid has one year left of school and then a half years internship.

Film businesswise it's been kind of slow. But I did get together with Marcus and Víði from Film school and we wrote this awesome short script and got it produced. So we spent almost a month in the Ukraine shooting our film Seven Years of Winter. We had one shooting day in Chernobyl. That was 2 days before the tsunami hit Japan and a huge nuclear disaster evolved there.

Here in Denmark I have been working as a camera assistant / focus puller. It has been a slow climb but now I am getting some work finally. Picturewise has helped me a lot and became coproducers on Seven Years of Winter. The work mostly involves commercials and shortfilms. I had the pleasure to work on a short film for the Festival week in Aarhus which starred Rutger Hauer. A great shoot and I can't wait to see the results as it was all green screen.

I am working on a few story ideas at the time and hope to be producing something by the end of the year.

Otherwise if you need it on the screen I'll gladly help out.