Tarjei Work News

Trying to answer a question of what is Tarjei up to these days?

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Past Work and Projects

2026

January-March  skyt meg, Rogaland Teater

2025

December  skyt meg, Rogaland Teater

October CATILINA (Short), writer and director

August Salsa (TV Series), Season 3, DRTV

2024

October Regi Grand Prix,  Xante Xenekunst, one of the directors

September Når snøen har smeltet (Short)

August Jeg følte jeg måtte være her (Short), script

June Tyst (Short), script contributor

June Kulde (Short)

Myggen (Short), writer

2023

October Furia (TV Series), Season 2, Viaplay

October  Kunsten er død (Short), script

July  Olav den Heldige - Frøyas kjærlighet, De Heldige

June Barbra Streisand-effekten (Short)

May Royalteen: Princess Margrethe (Feature)

May Huldredans (Short), actor and one of the writers

January Munch (Feature), script consultant

2022

October Forbannelsen (Feature)

September Olsenbanden – Siste skrik! (Feature)

August Døgnfluer 20 - Den Evige Natt, En spillefilm laget på ett døgn; artistic director

June 20.November, Oslo Nye Teater

2021

October Supergullrekka, Det Andre Teatret

September Hemale Education (Short)

May-June/August-September/December  20.November, Oslo Nye Teater

April  Revnen: Grotten (Radio play), NRK Radio

February Maxitaxi Driver (TV Series), NRK

2020

December Mens vi venter får vi gå...i jul og, Oslo Nye Teater  

November  Gledelig Jul (Feature)

September- October Macrophobia, Oslo Nye Teater, assistant director  

autumn Til ungdommen (film)   

July REAL LIFE PT. 9: Ekte Kjærlighet

June Mens vi venter får vi gå, Oslo Nye Teater,  idea, concept, script and  participation

June Vi burde ha vært på film(We Should Be a Movie) (short), writer and actor

April  Til ettertiden (sammen hver for seg) , Oslo Nye Teater

January - March Til ungdommen, Oslo Nye Teater

Kylie’s first kiss(Short)

2019

December Døgnfluer 14 - Snøfnugg, En helaftens julefilm laget på ett døgn!;  actor

December  De Norske Vennskapslover(Book/ Anthology); one of the authors

November-December Snøfall, Oslo Nye Teater

October-November Skitten Snø(TV Series), Miso Film

September On/Off (Short)

September  Hva kjærlighet er (Music video), No. 4

September Den i midten (Music video), No. 4

September- October Min Briljante Venninne, Oslo Nye Teater

August Ocean (Short)

June Døgnfluer 13 - fire konserter laget på ett døgn; Creative team

February Strømmeland (TV Mini-Series(episode: Louis Theroux - Norwegian Pets)), NRK

January - March En sporvogn til begjær, Oslo Nye Teater

January Døgnfluer 12- syv filmer laget på ett døgn; script writer

2018

December Femti/50, Det Andre Teatret

November Henrik Rafaelsen (Music video), Tredjeprøve

October-December  Snøfall, Oslo Nye Teater

October En affære (Feature)

July Fru Guri av Edøy, Smøla

June Døgnfluer 11-  Årets nest lyseste natt (Short); actor 

June Woman2Man - The final inter-chorus! ,  En gjeng med idioter

April-May Nyanser av gris, Antiteateret

January-March Grease, Chateau Neuf

2017

December Woman2Woman - a pussycal, En gjeng med idioter

September Melk (TV Series), Anagram

August Emoji filmen(Norwegian version), voice of Alex

June Woman2Woman - a pussycal, En gjeng med idioter

April Skam (TV Series), Season 4, NRK

March-April Det går bra, Antiteateret

2016

December What Would Jesus Do, Antiteateret

October Skam (TV Series), Season 3, NRK

March Skam (TV Series), Season 2, NRK

The Penetrators 2016 - Hanzee (Tarjei Sandvik Moe)

2015

September Skam (TV Series), Season 1, NRK

April  Don’t worry (Music video), Madcon feat. Ray Dalton

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Tarjei is the co-writer of the play “RAPING DENMARK <3 (or: how I rose and conquered the kingdom)- A frontal attack on the Danish self-understanding(original title: "RAPING DENMARK <3 (eller: hvordam jeg rejste mig og erobrede kongeriget))

It will be performed from February 8th 2027 - February 27th 2027 at Betty Nansen Teatret in Frederiksberg, Denmark

About the play

Denmark is under attack! An attack staged by a Norwegian who has come to set fire to our national self-image.

Following a series of provocative political performances in Norway, Norwegian theater provocateur Even Torgan now turns his attention to Denmark. His theory is simple: We are more radicalized than we think.

At the Danish School of Creative Writing in Copenhagen, a group of young writers come together, determined to change the world through words. But when questions of racism, freedom of expression, identity and Danishness divide the class, the school turns into a battleground.

RAPING DENMARK <3 (or: how I rose and conquered the kingdom) is a theatrical assault on the Danish self-image. An examination of radicalization, cultural guilt and political silence.

It is about a Denmark that celebrates itself as free, open and tolerant, while the boundaries of what we can say about "the others" are constantly shifting. Because who has the power to define Denmark? And who gets to be the good guy in the story about the intolerant?

Even Torgan has made a name for himself as the rising enfant of Norwegian theatre. At Edison, together with and playwright Tarjei Sandvik Moe, he invites the audience directly into the performance and confronts us with an uncomfortable question:

Is Denmark as tolerant as we tell ourselves? Or has radicalization already moved in without us noticing?

Creative team

Cast: Viktor Medom, Christopher Nallo, Iben Alida, Yas Wadi, Nina Ellen Ødegård, Anna Linding Rydeng* and Elias Hammer Larsen* (*students from the Danish National School of Performing Arts)

Director: Even Torgan

Script: Tarjei Sandvik Moe and Even Torgan in collaboration with the cast

Set and lighting design: Oscar Udbye

Sound design: Troels Møller

More info

Tickets

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Filmfrelst #675: David Robert Mitchells «The End of Oak Street»

Tarjei was part of the Montages editorial team podcast, Filmfrelst episode 675. Together with Lars Ole Kristiansen he discusses the season's latest American blockbuster, namely David Robert Mitchell 's dinosaur film The End of Oak Street .

Mitchell debuted with the melancholic coming-of-age film The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010), and followed it up with his big breakthrough a few years later: It Follows (2014) became the definitive horror film of the decade and contributed greatly to starting the wave of "elevated horror" that A24 has been at the forefront of. 

After the setback with the (revised) Under the Silver Lake (2018), Mitchell has been uncomfortably quiet – despite the fact that a long-delayed sequel to It Follows is reportedly on the way. But now he's back in the cinema, out of the blue, with a type of film few expected: Think Jumanji (1995) meets Jurassic Park (1993), but in the eighties. Anne Hathaway in the lead role is up for an Oscar, as usual, the children are exquisitely cast and the period coloring is so well-crafted and subtle that you almost forget it. Is David Robert Mitchell back in great form?

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Tarjei at the opening of XVI International Ibsen Conference with professor Klaus Müller-Wille and Norwegian ambassador to Switzerland, The Holy See and Liechtenstein, Kjersti Rødsmoen.

source: Norwegian Embassy in Bern 

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Tarjei talking about his short film "Catilina" after it's screening at XVI International Ibsen Conference in Zurich yesterday.

sources: UiO - Centre for Ibsen Studies, FG Nordic Studies University of Basel (social media)

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Short film "CATILINA" will be screened in Zurich, Switzerland as part of XVI International Ibsen Conference. After the screening there will be Q&A with Tarjei.

Film will be screened on Wednesday 24th June at 18h at the auditorium of the main building of the University of Zurich.

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During the last month's seminar at UiO Tarjei talked about the short film "Catilina" and his process while making it. Without spiling the film here are my highlights:

-He found inspiration in Agnar Mykle book "Lasso rundt fru Luna(Lasso Round the Moon)" and Karl Ove Knausgaard's books "Ute av verden (Out of the World)" and his fourth Min kamp book

-Originally his script was written with male main character named Agnar, but after casting all other actors he realized that the right actor for his main character is an actress

-He choose the play Catilina because he saw parallels between the character Catilina(main character of Ibsen's play) and the main character he wanted to create and parallels between young Ibsen writing Catilina and where he was as a person and an artist when he read the text

-He talked about having some trouble in film school because he couldn't limit himself in his writing

-The biggest impact the play Catilina had on him and the film is by inspiring him; the start of the play “I must, I must, a voice deep in my soul urges me on. I will heed its call with courage and strength for strength, for something better, something nobler than the present life”  became his mantra

-Short film is outside industry frameworks because of it's length. Film festivals rarely accept short movies longer than 30-40, and feature films shor---ter than 70; Catilina is 45 minutes long

-He was scared that he ended his career with this decisions, but he just found out about 2 year Art grant

-Deleted his social media because he is practicing being dead ( to better understand his decision, read Plato's "Phaedo", where Socrates says that "philosophy is the exercise to death". This is known as "art of death" and is practiced by detaching from material desires and focusing on wisdom and truth)

- Sees his film as a story about misunderstanding each other, because people see the world from different places. I quote: "The philosophical life and the real life, the ideals and the reality, can be experienced as irreconciled, irreconcilable dimensions. "

-Big fan of Ibsen ( thinks he is Dostoyevsky of playwriting), Plato ( Phaedo is referenced in film a few times) and Socrates

-He cried after finishing last Karl Ove Knausgaard book ( not because it was that good of a book, but because there is no more books to read)

-If he could change anything he would change its beginning and end😅

-About his future plans: working on a political play as a writer that will be on stage in Denmark early next year, is collaborating with another director, hopes to maybe write more shorts

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Hamza Kader posted cast and crew of Skyt meg with a lovely message on his Instagram.

"It was a joy and an honor to be a part of this amazing production with this amazing cast❤️

Thank you to the entire production team, Rogeland Teateret and everyone who was a part of the journey. And a special thank you to Even Torgan❤️"

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Photos from shooting short film Catilina in Skien from Varden's article.

Photos: Maja Stange, Tone Flaaterud 

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Last week 1069 artists received a Norwegian State Artist Grant(Statens kunstnerstipend). Tarjei was one of them! He was awarded a 2 year working grant for younger/newly established artists.

The Norwegian State Artist Grant is a grant that goes directly to the artists. The grant is awarded from one up to ten years (342,193 kroner per year) or as an one-off grant, and is aimed at artists at different stages of their careers.

This year, 5,459 artists applied for grants with a total of 12,936 applications. Only 5% of applicants in his category got awarded a grant.

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Photo of Tarjei during the talk after screening of his short film Catilina in Skien.

Festivalen nærmer seg slutten: – Nådd mange i år

«Ibsen i mars» er en månedslang festival i Skien, hvor det holdes en rekke arrangementer knyttet til dramatikeren.

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Gymnasium for underkastelse: Pillion

«Pillion gir raust nok plass til både fullblods britisk forstadsliv og fullblods pikk langt oppi nebbet. Som livet, jo!»

«PILLION provides generous enough space for both full-blooded British suburban life and full-blooded cock far up the beak. Like life, yeah! »

Tarjei writes about last year's most talked about LGBTQIA+ film, Pillion, which can now be experienced in Norwegian cinemas

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(+) – Det blir bra å komme tilbake til Skien

Lese nyheter i dag? Varden gir deg nyheter, sport, kultur, underholdning, feature og meninger fra Telemark.

Tarjei talked to Tone Flaaterud about filming his debute film Catilina, his participation in this year's festival "Ibsen i mars", his love for Ibsen, what he loves the most about Skien and more in Varden's article.

Photo by Maja Stange 

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On Thusday, March 19, Tarjei did a seminar "Catiline" - From Bad Roman Conspirator to Bad Norwegian Drama Teacher at University of Oslo, Centre for Ibsen Studies. Seminar was in English and streamed.

Tarjei talked about his recent film about the making of a performance of Ibsen's debut play Catiline (1850). Introduction to seminar:

"Why would a filmmaker today use Ibsen's earliest play Catiline as a starting point to explore conflicts of cultivation and enlightenment, education’s purpose in society, and the soul's struggle with material and social distractions? How make a story from the Roman Republic into one at a high school in Skien in 2025? In what way was Ibsen's imperfect and immature work as a debuting playwright in nineteenth-century, influential to a film about hubris and transgressions place (or lack thereof) in contemporary Norway – and not at least, personally inspiring for an immature twenty-five-year-old, having his debut as a filmmaker?

This seminar will revolve around my struggling artistic process making the film Catiline, where excerpts from Ibsen's play Catiline are performed by high school drama students, and other thematic parallels run throughout the film - which is also set in Ibsen's place of birth, Skien. I will explore how other works by Ibsen, like The Master Builder inspired my writing, as well as Plato's Apology and Phaedo, Sennett's The Fall of Public Man, Mykle’s novels about Ask Burlefot, and the legacy of infamous tyrants. And how I at the same time tried to integrate all this into a personal, somewhat realistic and specific modern melodrama, with both intellectual and emotional presence - if not always in perfect harmony."

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After 57 sold out performances "skyt meg" has finished.

sources: Rogaland Teater(Foto Stig H Dirdal), sgk_filuren, eventorgan, drimepal (Instagam)

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It's the last week of "skyt meg"

Tarjei's co-star Gorm Grømer posted about it on his Instagram profile and shared few new pictures