Hisarbuselik

Finn Gerdes recites his own 1945 short story about a grown up son returning to his childhood farm and his old parents who now are in need of his assistance. Illustrated in original drawings by Eiler Krag.

2-channel video of one-minute portraits, shot in 3 countries, between July 1 - September 1, 2010, featuring friends, family, encounters, artists and fellow filmmakers, examining how we change in relation to who we are with (mom, friends, or with a lover), where we are (at work, at a party or on vacation) and how we want to be perceived (by each other and by the camera). For each portrait, I shot approximately one minute of the subject, then passed the camera and they shot me, while I responded to their portrait.

A Way Out is about two young men, living on different sides of the track who switch lives with each other. David Bennett and his family's progress of achieving the American dream are put on hold when his father got injured on the job. David takes on the responsibility of advancing the family's dreams but the burden may be too difficult for him to bear. Nathan McKinley is an irresponsible and overconfident rich kid. His father is a successful business man who provides everything for his family except the one thing that Nathan craves the most - his attention so he seeks it elsewhere. Nathan usually gets whatever he wants. That is until he meets Johnny, David's uncle and the local healer, who decides to teach him a lesson.

In day-to-day life there is love.

"Harmonica-Taiyo" is the sequel to the short film "Nishikan", produced and released in 2016 as a joint public-private project by Nishikan-Ward office, Niigata City and Musashino Art University. Spent one year for shooting, the film itself is a sequel of 4 seasonal short stories about a family which depicts the beautiful scenery and the family value. By featuring the actual sake brewery and the rice farmers in the story, it added the documentary taste into the fictional reality drama in order to promote not just the place itself but also the heart of the local people.