Torstein Blixfjord is a Norwegian artist who works with film, performance, poetry and photography. He began directing theatre in 1990 with a series of adaptations of plays by Strindberg and Ibsen, to whose work Blixfjord has often returned. Following these productions, he went on to work with multimedia, and later to direct film in 2000. He is best known as a film director and producer.

As Film Director

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2014 Darwish: A Soldier Dreams Of White Lilies, a final performance by Mahmoud Darwish[1]
2012 Bird in a Box
2009 id - Identity of the Soul[2] at the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar
2008 Christmas Eve, a film based on Henrik Wergeland's poem of the same name for the opening of the Wergeland Year[3][4]

Multimedia Work

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2008 id - Identity of the Soul[2] on a 9 date tour of the West Bank
2006 Terje in Yokohama, Japan
2000 Fisk at Grimstad Shortfilm Festival with Paal Schjerven and Olav Celius
1999 Fountain House Blues at Fountain House, New York City, with images by Charlie Gross[5] and music by Briggan Krauss
1996 Telefonterroristen - Radiodrama
1994 Shalom-Salaam Peace Concert in Oslo Spektrum
1994 Terje Vigen by Henrik Ibsen at the National Theatre (Director of Multimedia)

As Theatre Director

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1993 The Evangelic Poets at the Agder Theatre
1992 Easter by August Strindberg at the Black Box Theatre
1991 The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen at Northwestern University Theatre
1991 The Vikings at Helgeland by Henrik Ibsen at Tyrili Teatret, Oslo
1990 Mother Love by August Strindberg at Northwestern University Theatre

Producer

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In 2012 Blixfjord produced Jorgen Friband's feature documentary Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth,[6] which premiered in Norway on 14 April 2012, and will be released in the UK later this year.

In 2004 Blixfjord was Executive Producer of Brixton Stories[7]- a series of short films that featured the London borough of Brixton. Brixton Stories was produced by Arts Alliance and Insight News Television.

References

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  1. ^ Darwish Film
  2. ^ a b "IDENTITY of the SOUL the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and Henrik Ibsen". www.identityofthesoul.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Wergeland-året 2008 offisielt åpnet / Aktuelt / Root folder - Ekstern". Archived from the original on 30 November 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  4. ^ "Hyllest til Wergeland". 31 January 2008.
  5. ^ "Fountain house - Charlie Gross Photography".
  6. ^ "リンパマッサージとは". shakespearethehiddentruth.com. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Home Page". www.brixtonstories.co.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
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