From her production company in Copenhagen, Maribo-born Oscar-nominated Danish film producer SIGNE BYRGE SØRENSEN shares her thoughts on what she learned to do producing her new film, The End, her first narrative feature and a six-country co-production. Signe talks about film as a collaborative art form, what she looks for in projects, the public support of film in Denmark, and the practical benefits, especially for documentaries, of award campaigns and film festivals.

Signe selects a work by Loui Michael from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS7159

(Photographer: Pascal Bünning)

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From his home in Copenhagen, a city he's called home for more than a decade, Texas-born Oscar-nominated American-Danish filmmaker JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER talks about his new narrative film The End (2024), an apocalyptic musical. Joshua discusses The End alongside his Oscar-nominated documentary films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), and how the three provocative and divisive projects are mirrors to challenge us to look at ourselves.

Joshua selects a work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1639

(Photographer: Pascal Bünning)

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On a stay in Los Angeles from Copenhagen, Søborg-born Danish entrepreneur and artist TONNY SØRENSEN recalls his 32-year-long stay in Los Angeles, initiated by his 1991 World Championship title in taekwondo, his acting aspirations, to leading the clothing brand Von Dutch Originals to international heights. He discusses communities he created outside of LA, including one based on Freetown Christiania, leaving LA, success and failure, and his current focus on his photography.

Tonny selects a work by André Derain from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMSr14

(Private photograph)

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