Lene Berg

"Th Head of a Woman" - "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)" - Oscar Wilde.

Deeply personal portrait of the actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård where he discusses acting.

Gomp: Tales of surveillance in Norway 1948-1989 is a film from a staged hearing focusing on the surveillance of dissidents during the Cold War. Through its unique set of characters, the film depicts a complex image of Post War Norway as well as various aspects and consequences of being surveilled. Produced as a live event, it is simultaneously a documentary, a work of fiction and a piece of political theater.

Was it an accident? A love triangle? A drunken brawl or just something completely different?

Reconstruction of the arrest of the artist's father

The love story of a couple caught up in the gentrification of a neighborhood that is wiping out a seminal African-American cultural legacy and displacing its original residents. In 2008 Norwegian artist and filmmaker Lene Berg moved in with her partner, a Black New York publisher, who will be referred to as D. After giving a statement to the police about being harassed by his neighbor in Harlem, D. was arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned. But for what exactly? His arrest initiated a journey over the course of which D.’s faith in the American justice system put everything he cherished in life at risk.

A nice supper with eight vociferous BDSM workers who tell disconcertingly joyful stories from their professional lives while being served by a silent, bare-assed man. When the subject turns towards murder and genocide, darkness threatens. But the mistresses of severity and grace shall save the day.

In 1975, renowned Norwegian filmmaker Arnljot Berg was arrested in Paris and charged with the murder of his third wife. Forty years later, his daughter Lene Berg is visited by the ghost of her now long-deceased father. He claims that she remembers everything wrong and that it’s time to ask the right questions. But what is it that he wants her to remember? And what are the right questions?

The Man in the Background is a story about the paradoxical role of the couple Josselson in the post-war western cultural battles and the exploitation of culture during the Cold War.

In 1921, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray reputedly shot their first film together in New York with the dada artist Baroness Else von Freytag-Loringhoven. The film was lost and all that remains is one still-image, conflicting written accounts and a title: Elsa, Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven, Shaving Her Pubic Hair. Lene Berg’s Shaving the Baroness is a restaging built on rumours and conflicting sources, and can be seen as a tribute to the so-called Dada-Baroness. As no original exists, Berg attempts to recreate the lost filmscene with two actors. A real situation is played out, one that cannot be rehearsed and where the director has little control. We are voyeurs of an intimate exchange something perhaps originally intended as a provocation and which might have changed the baroness’s life and destiny.