Other Projects

Heartpiece

Video Art, 19 min

Shot in the UK, June 2005

Screened at Red Dress Events, September 2007

Directed by

Philip Thorne, Øystein Ulsberg Brager

Performed by

Kelly Bland, Samuel Metcalfe

Assistant Director

Nick Kinghorn

Heartpiece is an enigmatic silent film based on a text by the German writer Heiner Müller. In an environment of broken bricks and red rose beds a twisted love story takes place. His heart is a brick. And she is determined to get it out by surgery.

You can see stills from the film here.

Cabaret Within

Short film, 30 min

Shot in Germany 2005

Screened at Red Dress Event, September 2007

Danson Festival, July 2007

La Viande Gallery, May 2007

Rose Bruford, October 2005

Directed by

Philip Thorne, Øystein Ulsberg Brager, Matthias Bollwerk

Performed by

Sammy Metcalfe, Anjorka Strechel, Julia Baukus, Nina Baukus

Musicians

Verena Lauer, Greg Last

Sound Technician

Owen Swanson-Low

Graphic Design

Anders N. Pedersen

Made in only three days without money or sleep, but with top hats, penny farthings and typewriters, Cabaret Within is the surreal outcome of a weekend of kamikaze filmmaking.

Cabaret Within was made in collaboration with Bastion Films.

You can see stills from the film here or have a look at the film's IMDb page here.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Performance

Performance at BAC Freshly Scratched, London, July 2007

Workshoped in Norway at NISS, August 2008

Devised by

Philip Thorne, Øystein Ulsberg Brager

Produced by

Michael H. Sciarrone

Graphic Design

Anders N. Pedersen

Now You See It, Now You Don’t is an attempt to salvage the world with an overabundance of confetti.

Imitating Eloquence

Performance, work in progress

Maddid's Nordic Festival, The Space, London, July 2009

TrafoFestivalen, Bingen Scene, Kristiansand, Norway, February 2008

Idea and direction by

Øystein Ulsberg Brager

Kristiansand version written and performed by

Øystein Ulsberg Brager

London version written and devised by

Astor Agustsson and Øystein Ulsberg Brager

London version performed by

Astor Agustsson

Artistic collaborator
Philip Thorne

Music for Kristiansand version by
Simen Lyndgren

Part performance, part game, part ritual; Imitating Eloquence is a discovery of how easy it is to lie. How near death is. And how hard it is to be a voice over.

7 Tales of Time

Collection of seven short films, 1h 45 min

Original title: 7 Fortellinger om Tid

Shot in Groruddalen, Norway and Värmland, Sweden 2005

Screened at Rose Bruford, October 2005

Initiated and directed by

Philip Thorne, Øystein Ulsberg Brager

Cast includes

Luke Waldock, Eirik Skåden, Kine Marie Halvorsen, Christoffer Hag Maure, Amir Mirzai, Jo Adrian Haavind, Kaja Schau Knatten, Odin Skaugen, Hartvig Hansen, Trude Nereng

Graphic Design

Anders N. Pedersen

The films were made with support from Trafo.no.

You can see stills from the films here.

INSTED letters

Summer 2008 INSTED asked 4 members to start a letter exchange about their preparation for their performances at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival and BITEF; Philip Thorne were to exchange letters with Sanja Mitrovic and Øystein U. Brager with David Overend. You can read the letters on Imploding Fictions blog, or find them on www.insted.eu. The letters were also printed in little booklets for the performances in Amsterdam.

Click here to read the letters between David Overend and Oystein U. Brager.
Click here to read the letters between Sanja Mitrovic and Philip Thorne.

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