The house

(1989) 40 min. 35 mm

Gerda lives alone in the house in the country after the death of her husband Sigurd. Her sister Marie who lives in the city and work as an actress, comes to see her for the first time in 15 years. Gerda brings her sister to greet the horses as the sun rises.

A HOUSE= center of the world, the big mother, regressus ad uterum (escalating into the dark before rebirthing)

The House is Mona J. Hoels exam film at the Dramatic Institute in Stockholm. It won the main prize at the Internatiobnal Student film festival in Munich, Germany, 1989.

Credits

Actors

  • Mona Malm
  • Jane Friedman
  • Loa Falkman

Producer

  • Irene Tostar

Script

  • Mona J. Hoel

Music

  • Birgitta Egerbladh

DOP

  • Ulf Aneer

Edit

  • Hélène Berlin
  • Mona J. Hoel

Set design

  • Eli Bø
  • Kari Skjolden

Sound

  • Per Nyström
  • Peter Larsson – assistent

Costume

  • Nina Sandström

Special effects

  • Veslemøy Fosse Ree

Produksjonsassistent

  • Saara Werner

Director

  • Mona J. Hoel