Magnus Bjørnstad
Directing
Known For
Digital sets and assets from a cancelled animated film make up short tableaus set in “the land of the devil”; The northernmost part of 17th century Denmark-Norway, where brutal witch-trials took place.
Bivrost
A silent collage of un-edited images taken from Google Earth, with pictures ranging from straightforward landscapes to more abstract, organic and cosmic imagery.
Impressions
A meditative journey through an ancient and desolate land enveloped in an ever darkening mist.
The Darkening Veil
Exploring a rare neurological condition in which people experience disorienting and often uncomfortable sensory distortions of time and space, Hearing Squares is an attempt at visualizing the indescribable, using experiments with film grain, warped audio and nebulous AI-generated backdrops.
Hearing Squares
Brief moments of impermanence conjure forth the soul of the moment. “Something Is Other” explores the concepts of sensory memory, Associative Synesthesia and Ideasthesia, where fleeting moments of sensory input can evoke vague and often unnamed emotions, concepts or memories.