Kim Hiorthøy Movies

A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are humiliated when offered a present of one million kroner from a...

A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.

Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.

Bauta is a short documentary that explores public, monumental buildings in Norway - stone and concrete buildings. By the public they have the desire to be torn down, or are not given particular aesthetic value. But what about when people are out of the buildings and they get to stand for...

A visual journey through Norwegian modernist church architecture. A short documentary film that pays tribute to the Norwegian church and post-war postmodernist architects for its daring reform of the 50-70's innovative church building. Raw concrete and cold clean lines in a functionalist style were...

21-year-old film student Kim Hiorthøy wonders if it is possible to live in the moment, and if the way to find out is to make a kind of verity movie about it - as if he was in Paris in the 60s and not in New York in 1994.

Storm is 10 years old. When her father disappears and her mother starts making instructional videos with an Eastern European self-help guru, Storm must decide which rules life to adhere to lest the world should fall apart.

A sister and a brother and the fear of fornication.

A group of people have moved to Alaska. They are searching for a higher level of freedom.

A secret underground group whose final goal and purpose is unclear. We do not know what they are preparing for, as they perform different tasks.

An “autobiographical self-activation musical around hypnosis and friendship”. Made in collaboration with musician Kevin Blechdom, the musical “Countdown to Nothing” tells the story of two women meeting around a tree, somewhere, maybe in a park. One of them is flying around, can’t put her...

What You Do – A practical guide. This book shows you how to use your model A1. Using one hundred and twenty three illustrations, it shows how even the hopeless can make a film.

7 is a concert film of the Norwegian band supersilent. Recorded in Oslo in August of 2004, it is the first video release by the band after four records (1-3, 4, 5, 6), all released on Norway's Rune Grammofon label. This is completely improvised music, sometimes very noisy, sometimes very quiet and...

A short documentary about a filmmaker's life and her relationship with her body.

Pål and Catherine would like to have a baby, but their efforts are hampered by bureaucracy.

A one take steady cam shot takes you threw the abandoned fabrics and streets of the little post industrial town Odda Norway.

Henrik gathers some friends at a cottage by a lake, deep in the forest. How will these city folk cope with the countryside? And how will they react to each other, way out in the wilderness?

A survey of the postmodern space, or an experimental game with the video media? Better angry than serious!