FRISKABTE - live documentation (English subtitles)
”My name is Kim, and I am a working class gay guy”. That is how Kim Mejdahl describes himself. He continues: “Inspired by author Glenn Bech’s novel Farskibet (The father ship), I want to create a music installation, because I have lived the life described in the book and share the same experiences”.
FRISKABTE is a physical room where one can feel the shame lingering after the pages of the book. A novel about a homosexual boy and man’s life in the aftermath of a father’s suicide and the ideal of masculinity he tried to live up to. It is a story about the life project it can become to step out of one’s social heritage and look for a new one.
FRISKABTE is Kim Mejdahl’s artistic interpretation of Glenn Bech’s brutal lyrics mixed with Mejdahl’s private life. Power prose, songs, baby photos, home video, electronic soundscapes, maybe a glimpse of the Danish artist Michael Kvium. The music is created in corporation with the polish queer musician Femmexy and on stage with Kim Mejdahl is Henriette Sennenvaldt. Expect electronic queer epic poetry: Lamentations pared with a trance party in hell.
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Runtime:1 hour 9 minutes 21 seconds
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl (b. 1989) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2019. Slaptstick humour and gothic horror meet up in Mejdahl's multifaceted work that often has its starting point in the artist's personal life story. Be it music album releases, film productions or large solo exhibition projects, Mejdahl's practice explore the topics of trauma-healing, climate crisis, spirituality, and gender identity.