Bjørn Melhus, born in 1966, lives in Berlin. Solo exhibitions in the Kunsthalle Rotterdam; Denver Art Museum; Kunsthalle Bremen. Group exhibitions in the Centre de la Photographie Genf 2013; Biennale di Venezia 2011; ZKM Karlsruhe 2007 et al. German Short Film Award in 2011 for “I’m not the Enemy”.
I’m Not the Enemy
(GER 2011, HD, 13’30”, English)
I’m Not the Enemy is the story of a soldier who returns home after a war only to feel like a stranger. At the mercy of a psychotic family situation, he feels detached from a society which doesn\’t know anything about the real state of war and perhaps doesn\’t even care. Is it ever possible to return from war?
Freedom & Independence
(GER 2014, 15’, English)
World Premiere
Money and faith, religion and capitalism, the bold theses of the self-proclaimed inventor of American Objectivism, Ayn Rand, and the religious rhetoric of US-American apocalyptic films. In his latest film – a mix of musical and science fiction, elaborately filmed in Istanbul gated communities and a Berlin morgue – Melhus lets muscle men, zombies and other dolls dance – all embodied by himself, of course.
