Chernobyl Mon Amour
Art / Documentary / Video installation
Following two state-employed guides in Priyat, Ukraine, Dennis and Maxim and their subjective perspectives and relationship to The Zone.
The project touches on the mysterious ability of both man and nature to adapt to the radioactive air.
Total runtime 20 minutes.
Work as editor.
Director: Siri Hermansen
Exhibition at Stenersen Museum (Norway 2012/2013)
Screened at Norwegian Short Film Festival (Norway 2012)
and Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam (Netherland 2012)

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Detroit, Land of Freedom
Art / Documentary / Video installation
A film that explores what can grow out of the financial catastrophy that has ruined The Motor City, Detroit during the past decades.
Warning: Animal slaughter
Total runtime 32 minutes.
Work as editor.
Director: Siri Hermansen
Exhibition at The 15th Seoul International New Media Festival (Korea 2015)
Exhibition at Stenersen Museum (Norway 2012/2013)
Island of Memories
Art / Documentary / Video installation
A three channel video intallation. The film investigate how memories and traumas of the Second World War have been transferred and received by the 3rd generation descendants of German families. We get an insight into human processes of adaption, where negotiation mechanisms enter into force for the descendant to carry their family heritage.
Work as editor.
Director: Siri Hermansen
Picture above: Installation at Galleri F15, Jeløya, Norway. (Photo by Momentum)
Selected documentary films

Skaugum Cultery
Promotional short documentary
The traditional cutlery brand with the "royal" name Skaugum makes handmade cultery with traditional methods and with the same design since 1943, the year the company where founded in Geilo, Norway.
Forks and knives hotter than ever!
Runtime 4:21 - no subtitles
Production company: R&R
Director/DOP: Rune Hov

Dreaming In The Stone-bed Walley
Art / Documentary / Video installation
A non-verbal short-film revolving around two realities related to the fundamental necessity of sleep within the Israel controlled Jerusalem and the bordering zone of the Palestinian controlled Bethlehem.
Two muted men presents two different perspectives on adaption to the conflict and of how new survival strategies emerge in order for human and nature to survive within this territory.
Work as editor.
Director: Siri Hermansen
Exhibition at Seoul International New Media Festival (South Korea 2018)
Martine - Siste Kapittel / Murder In Mayfair
Investigative documentary
In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen was killed after a night out in Mayfair. Hours after her death, the only suspect in the case, Farouk Abdulhak, the son of one of Yemen’s richest and most powerful men, fled the UK to Yemen.
Nawal Al-Maghafi seeks answers to what happened to Martine and uncovers how money, political power and Yemeni law protected Farouk once he had absconded to Yemen, which has no extradition treaty with the UK.
Directed by Gard A. Andreassen & Nawal Al-Maghafi
Production company: BBC, BBC Arabic & NeedToKnow
Work as Director of Photography.
Runtime: 4 x 45 min, 1 x 60 min.
► Watch "Martine - Siste Kapittel" on TV2
► Watch "Murder In Mayfair" on BBC
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