Lumbago
On a sweaty and feverish summer day, a family is splitting at the seams. The patriarch of the family, Ivar, is telling a convoluted anecdote to his colleagues, before it all collapses into an animated musical hallucination.
World premiere
- Country: Norge / Norway
- Year: 2024
- Length: 26
- Language: Norsk / Norwegian
- Director: Bendik Kaltenborn
- Script: Bendik Kaltenborn
- Photography: Andreas Bjørseth
- Editing: Erlend Mjømen Knudsen
- Sound: Gisle Tveito
- Music: Todd Terje
- Animation: Bendik Kaltenborn
- Production design: Hedda Virik
- Costume: Maren Saedi
- Makeup design: Live Becker Knudsen
- Cast: Nils Vogt, Raymond Teigen Hauger, Thea Lambrechts Vaulen, Harald Thaulow, Arnt Egil Andreassen, Grete Kvåli, Bjørn Müller
- Producer: Lars Thomas Skare, Bendik Kaltenborn
- Colorist: Julien Alary
- Contact: ltskare(at)gmail.com
Bendik Kaltenborn
Bendik Kaltenborn is a renowned Norwegian illustrator and comic book artist, who debuted as a film director with the short Liker Stilen in 2020, based on his own illustrated universe – much like Lumbago. Kaltenborn is a regular illustrator for The New Yorker and The New York Times, and has also illustrated covers for Todd Terje’s albums and the Criterion Collection edition of The Worst Person in the World.