”The Killing of a Danish Swan”

Here is the trailer to the project ”The Killing of a Danish Swan” that I shot during the Holidays in Copenhagen.

“The Killing of a Danish Swan”, a collaborative art project directed by Juan Hein, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011 (TRAILER). Featuring Kristina Korsholm and Janus Bakrawi. This film will be part of the exhibition “Generous Gestures”, at The Centre of Contemporary Art, from February 4th. to 13th. 2011

The Killing of a Danish Swan from Juan Hein on Vimeo.

Synopsis: In “The Killing of a Danish Swan” ‘D’ (Kristina Korsholm) and ‘H’ (Janus Bakrawi) are a couple composed by a Danish woman and a “new Danish” man. They are having dreams together about some kind of future and projection as a couple and maybe a family, and in relation with the society they live in. The film shows a game of babushkas where dreams inside dreams make a difficult interpretation of what is happening, what is real and what is not, what is part of their minds and prejuidices and what is in fact the fear of non-communication that they are not confronting.

“The Killing of a Danish Swan” is constructed by fragments and a collage of visual files and the performance from the actors and their characters in action. At the same time, the film explores the limits and the trespass of genres, between the documentary style and the traditional fiction interpretation. The conclusions will be open and there is a conceptual revision quoted along the film related to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.