Bakken

In three long uninterrupted onetakes shot over a single summers day and night the camera moves slowly through the park while the guests alternately react to the lens or try to ignore it A gang of Pierrot clones mingle with the visitors The film is an joint creation between students of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Danish Film School initiated independently by the students Using Bakken as a frame historically architecturally and socially all the contributors helped develop the concept for both the film and the performative interventions in front of the camera which are sometimes inseparable from the hedonistic and condensed semifictional universe that an amusement park is