Hæ?

Too old to be a Skam fan, yet... here I am. With a Tarjei sideblog. I regret all my life choices...

[buffycaps]

Rest in peace to the incredible Anthony Stewart Head (20th February 1954 - 1st June 2026)

RUPERT GILES in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003)

[sublimerebeldefendor]

Anthony Head RIP

20 February 1954 - 5 June 2026

[teejaysnow]

Here’s a grumpy hellhog to brighten your dash…

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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.

For more info

[tarjeismoeworknews]

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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

[tarjeismoeworknews]

(+) – 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 

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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.

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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.

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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

Photos: Maja Stange, Tone Flaaterud 

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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

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

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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."

[porcupine-girl]

I just made this and figured I should share it with the world, not just one discord server.

[tarjeismoeworknews]

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

[tarjeismoeworknews]

View this post on Instagram

23. On March Tarjei will visit Teater Ubsen and talk about his directorial debut short film Catilina - kortfilmvisning med filmsamtale . There will be a showing of the movie followed by a conversation between Tarjei and theater manager Line Rosvoll. In the video, Tarjei tells a little more about the movie and what you can experience this evening.

Tickets can be found at teateribsen.no

"My name is Tarjei Sandvik Moe. I've written and directed a 45 minute movie called Catilina which will now be shown in Skien under "Ibsen i mars(Ibsen in March)" at Ibsen Theatre 23. March. There I will also talk to the theater director Line Rosvoll. I'm really looking forward to that. And it's so cool for us to show this film in Skien, because the film was shot exclusively in Skien with the help of lots of good local people. The film is about a drama teacher at Skien upper secondary school I won't say more, but, maybe we'll see you?"