Sudden Destruction

film type experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2012 runtime 4'00 colour
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) languages Englisch Subtitles Deutsch

A man in a hotel. A newscaster. A corpse under a bed sheet which suddenly awakens and postulates the advent of sudden destruction. Speech is gushing out in the rhetoric of the apocalypse taking itself to the absurd. The quotes are taken from YouTube videos of self-proclaimed evangelist prophets.

director Bjørn Melhus Besetzung / Cast Bjørn Melhus Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Bjørn Melhus Schnitt / Editing Bjørn Melhus Produktion / Production Bjørn Melhus Drehbuch / Script Bjørn Melhus Tongestaltung / Sound Design Bjørn Melhus Bildgestaltung / DOP Yuki Jungesblut
Festivals
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
Europäisches Kurzfilmfestival Köln UNLIMITED, Germany
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Production
  • Limboland Productions/ Bjørn Melhus
  • Bjørn Melhus
  • Straßburger Str. 58
  • 10405 Berlin
  • +49 30 28484660
  • http://www.melhus.de
Distribution
  • Limboland Productions/ Bjørn Melhus
  • Bjørn Melhus
  • Straßburger Str. 58
  • 10405 Berlin
  • +49 30 28484660
  • http://www.melhus.de
Sales
  • Limboland Productions/ Bjørn Melhus
  • Bjørn Melhus
  • Straßburger Str. 58
  • 10405 Berlin
  • +49 30 28484660
  • http://www.melhus.de

Bjørn Melhus

Born 1966;
his work expands on the possibilities for a critical reception of cinema and TV;
Bjørn's practice of fragmentation, destruction and reconstitution of well-known figures, topics and strategies of the mass media opens up a network of new interpretations and critical commentaries

Filmography
1990 AMERICA SELLS
1991 DAS ZAUBERGLAS
1995 WEIT WEIT WEG
1997 NO SUNSHINE
1997 BLUE MOON
2001 THE ORAL THING
2003 AUTO CENTER DRIVE
2005 CAPTAIN
2007 THE MEADOW
2008 MURPHY
2009 HECHO EN MEXICO
2010 CENTER OF THE WORLD
2010 AFTERLIFE
2011 I’M NOT THE ENEMY
2011 DAS BADEZIMMER
2012 SUDDEN DESTRUCTION
2014 FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE
2017 MOON OVER DA NANG
2020 SUGAR
2022 HOMESICK