Film still of the film Meeting My Father Kasper Tophat, directed by Lea Glob, Visions du Réel 2012

Meeting My Father Kasper Tophat

Mødet med min far Kasper Højhat

Lea Glob
Denmark | 2011 | 28 min
Language : Danish
Subtitle : English

“I never met my father. All I know is that, once upon a time, he was a handsome man with a red beard and a big ship tattooed on his chest. One day, the police informed me he was dead. He had killed himself after 14 years in prison.” Controlling distance and emotion, Lea Glob has made a film which is an amazing tribute to her father and a universal story of how things are handed on.

“I never met my father. All I ever knew was that he was a handsome man with a red beard and a big ship tattooed on his chest. One day, I was told by the police that he had died. He had committed suicide after 14 years in prison. This film is the story of my father, a bank robber and a magician” (LG).

By arranging objects on a tray, Lea Glob draws a sort of map of her relationship with her father. The tray gradually fills up with symbols referring back to a distant, long-gone reality. Only the filmmaker’s voice forms a link with the enquiries she made to find out about her father and the life he lived, marked by suffering and loneliness.

Mastering distance and emotion, Brechtian staging and first-person investigation, Lea Glob has made a film that is more than a passing-out exercise. Mødet med min far Kasper Højhat is both an amazing film of remembrance and a universal story of how things get handed on.

Carlo Chatrian

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