Empire North (film)

Empire North is a 2010 film written and directed by Jakob Boeskov. The film follows Jakob Valdason (played by Jakob Boeskov) a cartoonist whose life changes drastically when he invents a fictional hi-tech weapon called the ID Sniper. The film is partly based upon the story of ID Sniper. The ID Sniper was an art project that took place in Copenhagen and Beijing August 2002.

Fictional elements

Although Empire North contains documentary elements, it is a fiction film, filmed in studios with professional actors. Honey Hollmann (the daughter of Jack Nicholson), plays the girlfriend of the main character. In the film the weapons fair takes place in Qatar. In real life it took place in Beijing.

Documentary elements

The film contains several documentary elements:

• Real footage of Jakob Boeskov at a weapons fair in Qatar

• Real emails and business offers from a range of international weapons dealers

• The real co-inventor of the ID Sniper, Kristian Von Bengtson plays himself in the film

Awards

The film won the DANISH:DOX [1] ^award at the 2010 CPH:DOX film festival.

Misc.

Empire North has music by Sort Sol, Goodiepal, Timothy DeWit and Mads Heldtberg

Literary references.

The film contains several literary references. Among them are references to: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, Klaus Mann's Mephisto, Guy Debord's The Society Of The Spectacle.

gollark: It would be easy enough if I could figure out how to convert the hexgrid into axial/cube coords.
gollark: The trick is probably implementing in software the "rotate sixty degrees" operation on the actual characters without OCRing.
gollark: practikal koding™
gollark: Wait, I have a cool idea. It's really easy to read the relevant data out if the words to find are horizontal, so all I need to do is render the input to an image, rotate it sixty degrees, OCR it, scan the words again, and repeat five times!
gollark: But what if I want to process bees instead?

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-03-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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