SHORT FILM2020

Hysterisk

Short film · Writer / Director

Short film · 19 minSelected stills

Premise

A young filmmaker approaches the most important production of her career while the pressure begins to fracture the relationships around her.

Direction

Hysterisk turns the demand to stay composed into an intimate psychological portrait, moving between professional control and private instability.

Film

A 19-minute Danish short film built around restrained performances, cool domestic spaces and the mounting pressure of a film set.

Visual sequence

Selected scenes

A visual sequence from the film’s movement between private pressure and professional control.

Karen smoking on a balcony in Hysterisk — 01

Karen lighting a cigarette outside in Hysterisk — 02

Close-up of Karen in warm interior light — 03

Karen sitting on a sofa in cool blue light — 04

Karen reclining on a sofa in Hysterisk — 05

Karen in the shower with another character partly visible — 06

Karen in conversation with an older man — 07

Karen distressed in the shower in Hysterisk — 08

Festival circuit

Festival recognition

Best Short Film at Toronto Female Feedback Festival 2021 and Official Selection at Femfilm Oslo 2022.

Hysterisk festival still with laurels from Toronto Female Feedback Festival and Femfilm Oslo — 01
**Hysterisk on the festival circuit**
Best Short Film · Toronto Female Feedback Festival 2021 / Official Selection · Femfilm Oslo 2022

Project details

01—03

Role

Writer
Director

Recognition

Best Short Film · Toronto Female Feedback Festival 2021
Official Selection · Femfilm Oslo 2022

Credits

Produced by Anna Lomholt MadsenDOP Jonas Bech VestergårdEditor Melissa Pauline Maegaard OlsenProduction design and costumes Marie HavSound Emil Vilhelmsen and Sam Hodgkins

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