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Atelier

2017 · 30 min

A quiet, uneasy chamber piece where isolation and clashing personalities simmer against an eerie, sheep-haunted landscape.

Directed by: Elsa María Jakobsdóttir
Genres: Drama
Starring: Rosalinde Mynster, Anna Rothlin, Oscar Töringe

Overview: A young woman comes to a remote island to get away from it all, taking refuge at a modern studio utopia. Her stay is jarringly interrupted by an acoustic installation artist. Tension between the contrasting personalities rises as differing lifestyles and expectations clash. Meanwhile nature and mysterious sheep close in on the labyrinthian house.

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Directed by: Elsa María Jakobsdóttir
Genres: Drama
Starring: Rosalinde Mynster, Anna Rothlin, Oscar Töringe

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
trauma
loneliness
identity
art
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	0
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	0
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Elsa María Jakobsdóttir
Written by: Elsa María Jakobsdóttir
Starring: Rosalinde Mynster, Anna Rothlin, Oscar Töringe, Marijana Janković
Cinematography: Annika Aschberg
Runtime: 30 min
Country: Denmark
Languages: Danish, English, Swedish

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