
Kim Hiorthøy
Camera
Known For

A sister and a brother and the fear of fornication.
Lust

A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.
The Angel

A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are humiliated when offered a present of one million kroner from a relative. A warm and nuanced film about people who all mean well, but end up hurting one another.
I Belong

Storm is 10 years old. When her father disappears and her mother starts making instructional videos with an Eastern European self-help guru, Storm must decide which rules life to adhere to lest the world should fall apart.
The Rules for Everything
Pål and Catherine would like to have a baby, but their efforts are hampered by bureaucracy.
Hovmod

Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.
The 7 Deadly Sins

Bauta is a short documentary that explores public, monumental buildings in Norway - stone and concrete buildings. By the public they have the desire to be torn down, or are not given particular aesthetic value. But what about when people are out of the buildings and they get to stand for themselves? Bauta provides a new experience of space and architecture.
Bauta

What You Do – A practical guide. This book shows you how to use your model A1. Using one hundred and twenty three illustrations, it shows how even the hopeless can make a film.
What You Do
A survey of the postmodern space, or an experimental game with the video media? Better angry than serious!
All as Nothing at All

A visual journey through Norwegian modernist church architecture. A short documentary film that pays tribute to the Norwegian church and post-war postmodernist architects for its daring reform of the 50-70's innovative church building. Raw concrete and cold clean lines in a functionalist style were in line with society's development, but in stark contrast to what the church had previously represented. The film portrays 25 of these churches from all over the country
Ad Astra

A group of people have moved to Alaska. They are searching for a higher level of freedom.
This Is Alaska

A one take steady cam shot takes you threw the abandoned fabrics and streets of the little post industrial town Odda Norway.
Odda

A short documentary about a filmmaker's life and her relationship with her body.
My Body
21-year-old film student Kim Hiorthøy wonders if it is possible to live in the moment, and if the way to find out is to make a kind of verity movie about it - as if he was in Paris in the 60s and not in New York in 1994.
Nervous

7 is a concert film of the Norwegian band supersilent. Recorded in Oslo in August of 2004, it is the first video release by the band after four records (1-3, 4, 5, 6), all released on Norway's Rune Grammofon label. This is completely improvised music, sometimes very noisy, sometimes very quiet and ethereal, and always very beautiful.
Supersilent 7
Henrik gathers some friends at a cottage by a lake, deep in the forest. How will these city folk cope with the countryside? And how will they react to each other, way out in the wilderness?
The Lodge

An “autobiographical self-activation musical around hypnosis and friendship”. Made in collaboration with musician Kevin Blechdom, the musical “Countdown to Nothing” tells the story of two women meeting around a tree, somewhere, maybe in a park. One of them is flying around, can’t put her feet on the ground while the other is tangled in flesh web. With the help of hypnosis, they will solve their problems by traveling through their psychedelic subconscious (www.argosarts.org).
Countdown to Nothing

A secret underground group whose final goal and purpose is unclear. We do not know what they are preparing for, as they perform different tasks.
We're Different Now
A short video about two clerks' relationship with fake knives, Coca Cola, and packing liver.