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Screens, sound and film for the special exhibition at Sønderborg Slot.

  • (Client)

    Museum Sønderjylland

  • (Where)

    Sønderborg Slot

  • (When)

    Special exhibition,
    from April 2023

  • (What we did)

    Digital
    Film
    Media production
    AV

  • (About)

    When the First World War broke out in 1914, Sønderjylland was part of Germany. Denmark stayed neutral, but around 35,000 men from the region were called up to fight in German uniform. Roughly 6,000 never came home, and 4,000 returned disabled.

    At Sønderborg Slot, Museum Sønderjylland tells their story through eleven rooms, each with its own theme. Flowerhaus created the entire digital layer of the exhibition.

Guests by the entrance wall
A guest with a field telephone to the ear
The red corridor
The wall with the faces of the soldiers
The room about the call-up in 1914
A film screen in the passage next to the tank
The full-size tank
An actor on one of the life-size screens
A cavalry uniform mounted on a horse
Letters and photographs on display
The room with the chandeliers and the projected map

(Fourteen monologues)

Here are three of them. Each one is a letter written by someone from Sønderjylland during the war, performed by an actor exactly as it was written. The films are in Danish.

Anne Maren Wind
Haderslev, August 1915
Peter Grosbøll Frank
Moulin-sous-Touvent, Western Front, December 1914
Søren P. Petersen
Lens, Western Front, June 1916

(Fourteen letters, fourteen actors)

These are the faces that carry the voices through the castle.

One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen
One of the fourteen actors on screen

(On set)

We filmed all fourteen monologues over a few days in March 2023 in a blacked-out studio. One actor at a time, looking directly into the lens, dressed in authentic clothing from the period and lit by a single lamp. No set and almost no props. In the exhibition the screens are mounted in full height, so you stand face to face with the person telling their story.

Clara Herman (@claraherman) as Ingeborg Andresen, filmed during the shoot
Behind the scenes from the film shoot
Behind the scenes from the film shoot
Behind the scenes from the film shoot
Behind the scenes from the film shoot
Behind the scenes from the film shoot
Behind the scenes from the film shoot
Behind the scenes from the film shoot
Behind the scenes from the film shoot

  • (Credits)

    Film: Flowerhaus
    Photography: Jeppe Vinum
    Exhibition architect: Troels Lærke, MSJ

  • (Next)

    All work

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