Introduction Long films:
In mid 2003 I met producer and script writer Tom B. Jenssen which had this idea about corpse eating vampire woman from the viking era. The original Valkyries was nothing near our blood vampire hungry bitch. The story was simply named Valkyrie or later became internally referenced as Valkyrie Vampyris.
For some years the Valkyrie (Vampyris) project was alive, but after so many revisions of the original script and
the fact that we based it on the original Valkyries somewhat troubled me in the aftermath. I was not too
sure about the reference to Valkyries and the fact that we had created a own tweaked monster out of this.
So in Aug 2007 I just simply forced myself to abandon Valkyrie (Vampyris) before it could do more hurt to
itself than good in the end. Something unique and not seen before must be created. The Valkyrie (Vampyris) script was
not based on a new monster, it was simply put; a tweak of something well known in Viking history.
And let me point out that Valkyrie 2008 (starring Tom Cruise) practically STOLE our title and that our movie is
not in any way related to German Nazi's! We officially presented our movie project as Valkyrie during the Amanda
Film Festival 2004, to FilmKraft Norge in 2006 and was part of the line-up of Parkland Pictures at the Cannes Film Festival 2006-2007 not to forget the official coverage in the newspapers 2003 here, here and here.
Anyway, after the obsoletion of Valkyrie (Vampyris) in 2007 came the idea of Ylva - the girl, the woman, the wolf as a superseded equivalent to the original concept of Valkyrie (Vampyris). The outline of the Ylva script is based on ingredients found in the script, but there is no more Valkyries to be seen or heard of. The script for Ylva was never written as a result of lack of time and other projects getting priority.
In 2005 I came up with the idea for the world's most expensive movie concept ever to be conceived in movie history, it was
called Moon Fever and 40-60% of it should be shot on location on the real moon, so one can imagine if that will ever happen
right? I just liked to play with the concept, some words and the outline of a poster. No script was ever written, or any specific
details of the movie was never written down.
Creating feature films requires all of your day and night time for about 1-2 years, so its hard to quit a very good job to take a risk of failing and therefore I never dared to take the chance....yet.
There is also other unique ideas for feature films in my scrapbook, but I won't reveal any of those here.
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Introduction Short films:
It started off in 1995 with my version of the Nightmare On Elm Street movies, and we named our short film project Freddy is back. Today it consists of broken scenes and absolutely no clear indication of story line, but the most cool scenes
has been added to the website for the world to see. This is bascically the first indication of my dedication to movie making.
But, the effort needed to pull off a longer short film of this kind with about 10 actors, no salery and just for fun delayed this
movie into eternity and thus it was never finished. To cope with this loss, I started making script ideas for a short film called
Knut Mollvik - an interview with an artist/a tragedy in 1996-1997 with only two actors playing each two characters themselves. It worked very good and it was a good exercise how to pull that off.
After the success of Knut Mollvik, I wanted to do much more complex splatter/gory scenes and thus Violence amongst neighbours was written, shot, edited and conceived during 1998-2003. It featured only 3 actors, but even that made
the short film drag into long shooting time.
Violence amongst neighbours ignited the idea of extending the movie into a full feature movie project, but that was never
realized because I chose to work on Valkyrie Vampyris instead.
Creating short films are a very nice way to explore the dream and possibilty of creating a full feature movie and
is always a natural choice for all movie makers.
There is no future plans for creating more short films as I feel that time is over and the need for something larger like
feature films is much much more interresting.
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Introduction Music videos:
It started off in 1992 after seeing The Prodigy's cool music video Out of space on MTV and we were so fans of those
early Prodigy videos. With this in our mind, my friend's summer turned out to become a very fun experience where we had nothing to do during a weekend and shot some stuff.
Then sometime in 1992, we did a quick music video based on Tony Scott's Greenhouse Effect and some weeks later, we also did a music video were we used SL2's - On a ragga trip as background music. Those two first
music videos don't have any specific concept or planned outline, all scenes were just created on the fly - us dancing around
and doing some kind of lip sync or rhythm sync. Mostly it consisted of waving arms and legs around doing crap shit.
After those two funny video's, we were ready to do a more concentrated music video remake of Prodigy's Firestarter in 1996
which was edited and shot on-site during 8 hours and made to look more or less like the original was. It turned out to be very good and funny based on the technological limitations we had at the time.
In 1998 I discovered the world of Adobe Premiere and video capturing onto PC, and thus saw the huge possibilties it offered over doing VHS-TO-TAPE editing and started planning the remake of Prodigy's Poison video which turned out to become a 3 week project that featured a incredible attetion to details and similarity to the original music video. It was also a big success and one of the coolest things I have ever creativitly created.
After 1998, there was no specific plans to do more music videos, as I moved onto movie making, music making and a lot of other
creative projects.
What the future hold for my music video career would possibly to create a video for local bands with some of my unique ideas
hidden deep inside my scrapbook, but I won't reveal any of those ideas here.
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Index 
Starting off in 1990 at the age of 16 with an old VHS big size shoulder camera, moving onto VHS-C in 1991, then to Super-VHS in 1997
and eventually to a shoulder DV camera in 2003 which was later sold in 2005. From 2005 until today I've had no ongoing projects and
do not own a camera as I moved on with other creative projects. 