Bjergene

Christian Einshøj
Denmark | 2023 | 87 min
International Premiere
Languages : Danish, Norwegian
Subtitles : French, English

The Mountains paints the subtle portrait of a family going through the process of mourning by way of a specific act: filming their loved ones. With a mindful and sensitive touch, Christian Einshøj puts present-day conversations about life and cinema into dialogue with archival home video footage shot by his father over a period spanning thirty years, delivering a deeply moving film.

The act of making moving images has a highly personal and subtle purpose in this film, essentially functioning as a journey towards the mourning of a loved one. At the outset of The Mountains, the filmmaker Christian Einshøj is going through his father’s home video archive. This filming practice, which spans more than 30 years and started as a way of capturing a loved one’s last moments, somehow morphed after this loss into a continued, perhaps unconscious mourning process. How does one film when one is mourning? How does filming become intertwined with mourning? Alongside a highly mindful selection from this archival past presented in The Mountains, Christian Einshøj embarks on a filmed journey to attempt to draw closer to his siblings and parents and reconcile a family that has drifted apart over the years. This time, the camera might have an additional, complementary function: creating spaces for bonding via the tropes of fiction and fantasy, in the idiosyncratic manner of the cinematic device.

 

Dimitri de Preux

The Mountains, 2023
Haunted, 2018
How I Live, as You Wanted to Know, 2014

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Screenplay
Christian Einshøj
Photography
Christian Einshøj
Sound
Sune Kaarsberg
Editing
Christian Einshøj
Music
Toke Brorson Odin
Production
Mathilde LippmannMade in Copenhagen
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