Private Project

Girlfriend Experience

Kath (25) is selling sex in Oslo, alongside her best friend, Andrea. When Andrea decides to walk away, Kath tries to ignore it and maintain their business on her own. But the presence of Andrea is following her, and Kath is forced to face her grief.

  • Ingvild Dahlgren
    Director
  • Julie Macus
    Writer
  • August Colding
    Producer
  • Zoe Rodgers
    Key Cast
    "Kath"
  • Frederikke Dahl Hansen
    Key Cast
    "Andrea"
  • Jan Gunnar Røise
    Key Cast
    "Trond"
  • Marius Solberg
    DOP
  • Olivia Mai Scheibye
    Production Designer
  • Ester Drage Lindberg
    Sound Designer
  • Darta Sturite
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    26 minutes 24 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 4, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    40,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Norway
  • Country of Filming:
    Norway
  • Language:
    Danish, Norwegian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - The Norwegian Film School
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Ingvild Dahlgren

Ingvild is a 30 year old Norwegian director who moved to Denmark at 19 to attend the art school Fatamorgana. After this she made several films in Copenhagen with support from, among others, “The Danish Art Foundation”.

At the Norwegian Film School, she has experimented in how she can keep the realness from documentary, while playing with time and form in a way that becomes part of the narrative itself to make an inner experience. An example of this is her graduation film “Girlfriend Experience”, which is based on a documentary she made about two, young sex workers in Oslo in 2017.

Ingvild will continue to play with genres and cinematic forms to tell about complex, interpersonal relationships to investigate how we make escapist solutions to deal with the times we are living in.

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Director Statement

Can you live without care from others?

Eight years ago I stood as a young documentarist in front of two young women in Oslo, while they were planning the sale of the sexual service called "Girlfriend Experience". For 400 euros you could buy an hour with two "girlfriends" who could be whatever kind of girlfriend you wanted them to be. They were experts in understanding your needs, and I realized that they were selling much more than sex: They sold human contact and care.

In Girlfriend Experience I am inspired by the meeting I had with those women, their environment and their story. It's a film where we go on the inside of their close relationship, and the main characters experience of losing just that. Because what happens to the "Girlfriend" when she's the one who needs human contact and care?