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Call Sign Valhalla

A fiction entirely made with real footages captured on site and broadcasted on Telegram by soldiers, Call Sign Valhalla is a a raw, unfiltered look at the realities of modern warfare.

  • Pierre de Mûelenaere
    Director
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Call Sign Valhalla
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Documentary, fiction, war, Found footages
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Belgium
  • Country of Filming:
    Ukraine
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • The North Film Festival
    Stockholm
    Sweden
    Best Documentary Short Award
  • International Experimental Film Festival
    Athens
    Greece
    World premiere
    Official selection
  • Premis Zoom
    Barcelona
    Spain
    Official selection
  • San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival
    San Francisco
    United States
    North American premiere
    Official selection
  • Festival Internacional De Cine Y Multimedia
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    South American premiere
    Official selection
  • Film Maudit 2.0
    Santa Monica, CA
    United States
    June 14, 2024
    Official selection
  • The Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Pierre de Mûelenaere

Living and working in Brussels, Belgium, Pierre de Mûelenaere is a videographer, printmaker, musician, publisher. In 2023, he began making films. His debut, Call Sign Valhalla an experimental film about the war in Ukraine has been so far selected for the International Experimental Film Festival 2023 in Athens, the San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival and 21th Zoom Festival 2023 în Barcelona. Other works includes Wonderfully Desolate (2023) a music video selected at 14th Palena Film Festival 2023 and 12th La Mida no Importa 2024 at MACBA Barcelona. As a musician, member of Orphan Swords and Maze & Lindholm, he has released on numerous record labels including Bedouin Records (GR/JP), Aurora Borealis (UK), Desire Records (FR), Clan Destine (UK) and more. In 2022, he released Thunder & Lightning, a book of woodblock inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.

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Director Statement

“In a world of go-pro cameras, weaponized commercial drones, wireless internet and email service like Telegram what was once science fiction has now become reality. Battlefield images are widely available, often accompanied by music added by the soldiers. As citizens, should we confront these images? As artists, what can we make of these testimonies? Through the war film genre, I decided to present a vision of real war, as a way of sharing the terrible experience of the soldiers who take part in it and the populations who suffer from it.”