Director: Thea Hvistendahl
DoP: Pål Ulvik Rokseth
Producer: Sverre Gundhus
Production Manager: Sebastian Andrés Knutsen
Production design: Margrete Eskedahl
Editor: Tormod Berge
Prod co: Einar Film for world in red
VILDANDEN
By Henrik Ibsen
Sogn og Fjordane Teater
Director: Øystein Ulsberg Brager
Set & Costume Design: Margrete Eskedahl
Lighting Design: Gaute Fjellbakk
Cast: Reidun Melvær Berge, Kyrre Eikås Ottersen, Kai Kenneth Hanson, Idun Losnegård, Yngve Berven
“Take the life lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.”
https://teatervestland.no/framsyningsliste/2017/8/14/vildanden
Brødrene Karamasov
The National Theatre, Oslo
Director: Oleg Kulikov
Costume Design: Margrete Eskedahl
Set Design: Simon Pastukh
Lighting Design: Øyvind Wangensteen
Makeup Design: Annika Andersen
Photo by L-P Lorentz
Cast: Espen Skjønberg, Finn Schau, Mads Ousdal, Per Egil Aske, Håkon Ramstad, Per Jansen, Trine Wiggen, John Brungot, Mariann Hole, Marte Engebrigtsen, Espen Reboli Bjerke, Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Fridtjov Såheim, Henriette Steenstrup
"Brødrene Karamasov er en storslått estetisk opplevelse"
Ida Lou Larsen, Klassekampen
"Scenografi og kostymer er flotte, scenene er visuelt fremragende og lyssettingen praktfull.
- Sterke og poetiske scenebilder, visuelt vakker Dostojevskij"
Andreas Wiese, Dagbladet
"Storslåtte scenebilder, en mektig visuell teateropplevelse"
Elisabeth Rygg, Aftenposten
Prices:
Heddaprisen / Best Actor, leading role / Mads Ousdal
AGG
Script and director: Ståle Stein Berg
Production Design: Margrete Eskedahl
DoP: Odd Reinhardt Nicolaysen
Costume Design: Ingvild Hornseth
Sound Design: Svenn Jakobsen
Editor: Zaklina Stojcevska
Producer: Frode Søbstad
Cast: Ines Prange, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Alva Pauline Gjerde, Moa Nicolaysen
When mom gets ill, Maria becomes the familys caretaker. But when she cant cope any more, her father seems to have given up.
Prices:
2015: Kort: Best Editing
2015: Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People: Special Mention, Short Films
Gummibaronene
By Hanoch Levin
Hålogaland Theatre
Director: Oleg Kulikov
Set Design: Margrete Eskedahl
Costume Design: Margrete Eskedahl
Lighting Design: Reidar Richardsen
Photo by Ola Røe
Cast: Ulla Marie Broch, Morten Svartveit, Marius Lien, Inge Kolsvik
"Som han viste i sin oppsetning av Karl og Anna på Rogaland Teater, har den russiske regissør Oleg Kulikov et fabelaktig grep om lys. Sammen med scenograf Margrete Eskedahl, som han også samarbeidet med i Stavanger, skaper han et enkelt, men frapperende scenebilde: Store, svarte garderobeskap springer opp og åpenbarer et lysende apotek eller en pastellfarget garderobe. I lyset og røyken som flommer gjennom bakdøra gjør skuespillerne poetiske entreer.
- en snedig, interessant komedie. Og den ser fordømt bra ut."
Inger Merete Hobbelstad, Dagbladet
Midtsommernattens skygge
Director: Stian Einar Forgaard
Production design: Margrete Eskedahl
DoP: Tore Vollan
Composer: John Erik Kaada
Sound Design: Anders Egeland
Editor: Erik Andersson
Producer: Geir Netland - Phantomfilm
Cast: Jon Vågnes Eriksen, Ingrid Philippa Bruun Larsen, Jesper Fosdahl, Glenn Andre Kaada, Cato Skimten Storengen, Øystein Martinsen, Nina Eikeskog
It´s midsummer eve, the brightest night of the year. During the celebrations Jon and Line escape to their secret hideout in the forest.
However, the idyll passes as Line has to leave. This is the last time Jon sees her. A story of about finding the way back.
Prices:
2011: Chicago International Children´s Film Festival: Children´s jury - 2nd Prize Live-action Short Film
2012: View Finders - Atlantic Film Festival for Youth: Youth Jury Award for Best Short Film
Karl og Anna
By Leonhard Frank
Rogaland Theatre
Director: Oleg Kulikov
Set Design: Margrete Eskedahl
Costume Design: Margrete Eskedahl
Lighting Design - Haakon Espeland
Photo by Emile Ashley
Cast: Even Rasmussen, Kjersti Sandal, Rune Temte, Håkon Karoliussen
" Magisk realisme. Leonhard Franks tekst er ikke litteraturhistoriens mest spenstige. Men for en vakker forestilling det er blitt. Dørene er glisne og sprukne på kjellerscenen på Rogaland Teater, bakveggen av grå, tung mur. Men det glimter i et metallkar med vann på scenegulvet, der vannflaten stadig splintres av små, lyriske drypp fra taket, og det blinker i lykter på veggene. Det skapes et varmt, innsmigrende lys av en slik art som vanligvis er forbeholdt deltakerne i den amerikanske versjonen av "Ungkaren", men her kastes det over en mørk celle i en fangeleir og senere i et fattigslig hjem, og over krigstrette, lengtende mennesker. Noe eventyrlig skapes, noe romantisk og realistisk på samme tid. -"
Inger Merete Hobbelstad, Dagbladet
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2007/09/04/510995.html
http://idalou.orgdot.no/pub/idalou/2007_9_12_13.27.13.shtml?cat=kritikker
Prices:
Heddaprisen / Best Actress, leading role / Kjersti Sandal
Exhibition
Initiated and curated by Margrete Eskedahl
M.K.Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Lithuania
Hordaland International Art Gallery / 3,14, Bergen, Norway
IKM, Oslo Museum, Norway
Talking Rubbish brings together a selection of artists from the Western Cape, South Africa. In interplay with photographs by Knut Egil Wang, the exhibition presents a vibrant culture in recycling material, and focuses on people´s strong will of looking for possibilities, rather than despair. Talking Rubbish show how the seemingly useless can be transformed into storytellers and objects with a universal value, and how narrow the boundary between the useless and valuable may be.
Artists:
Jan Outa Lappies Schoeman, Sonwabo Golden Nongawuza, Luvuyo Nyathi, Masimba Jeff Mwazha, Monani Jackson Nkumanda, Monique Fagan, Zolile Derrick Senteni, Heath Nash, Unathi, Isac Naki.
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Supported by the Fritt Ord Foundation and Arts Council Norway.
"My work began as an excavation, or archeaology. Finding remnants of contemporary society, allowed me to look with more compassion at our culture. The suburban and mundane, when washed up and washed out, lost some of its threat. The dominant culture rendered by time and the effects of the sea, sun and sand, has been, at once prophetic and mordant. It allowed me to listen to that which had always seemed so loud, in its silence able to speak about its soul, a reminder of what we might already have lost". Monique Fagan (1970)
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Woman by Monique Fagan
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Horse by Monique Fagan
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Bird by Monique Fagan
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
"To the authority I was rubbish, just a piece of shit. I vowed to prove to them that everything has value. My story is a simple story. Scrap is my study. My father told me: “If you turn your hand upward to beg – you become a slave. If you turn it to the earth, you become a man.” I have made a life from my hands. This life is hired out to me to decorate this earth with glee!” Jan Outa Lappies Schoeman (1929? - 2011)
Foto by Knut Egil Wang
Work by Jan Schoeman
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Prayer is my only weapon, Interior in Langa Township, Cape Town
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
"Sometimes at night I lie awake and think of what I am doing. It seems crazy making all these things out of tin - I think it´s strange. I don´t know the answe why. All I know is that this offers people around here an alternative to crime, and I appreciate what I am doing. Rubbish doesn´t exist. Tin is not rubbish, plastic is not rubbish, and paper is not rubbish. I recycle up to 600 cans a day, alternating three pairs of scissors. A cola-can become a peaked cap; a beer can changes into a model aeroplane. I see through this art that people begin to change - they take pride in their work. That´s what this country needs. If I can do my bit to make it a little bit better, then thats good. I like to feel that I´m making a difference. My biggest dream is to share my skill with as many people as possible, giving them something to do, and to take advantage of the massive demand for township art." Luvoyo Nyathi (1969)
Photo byKnut Egil Wang
Dress by Luvuyo Nyathi
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Flamingoes by Isac Naki
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Curtains made by Ilithalomso Craft Group
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Rhino by Monique Fagan
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Pilchard Sardines by Unathi, Wola Nani
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
"One night I dreamed of a rubbish dump filled with yellow and white flowers, and a voice told me to pick and sell them and I would have money for food. When I woke up I walked to Swartklip, where the refuse of Cape Town is tipped into the dunes. I wandered in the rubbish, but I found nothing. Some weeks later I dreamed the same dream. Again I went in search of flowers, but returned home disappointed, empty-handed. When the dream came back for the third time, I feared I was losing my sanity and that the desperation of my circumstances was playing tricks with my mind. I returned to the dump. This time, in the course of my searching, I noticed piles of empty soft-drink cans, yellow and white. I gathered up a few and hurried home. In my shack I set to work with a pair of scissors and a pot of paint. After many setbacks I finally fashioned a flower just like the ones in this dream: A perfect daisy with a long green stem, pointed white petals and a yellow centre. Then I decided to follow my dream."
Sonwabo Golden Nongawuza (1957)
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Golden Dreams by Golden Nongawuza
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
Rhino by Monique Fagan
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
The Living Legend by Jeff Mwazha
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
Face of South Africa by Jackson Nkumanda
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
Embrace by Zolile Derrick Senteni
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
Pilchard Sardines by Unathi
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
From exhibition at IKM Museum, Oslo
Initiated and produced by Margrete Eskedahl
Something out of Nothing (2006) is a film about the South-African artist, philosopher and activist, Jan Outa Lappies Schoeman (1924 - 2011).
During apartheid, Jan Schoeman was treated like rubbish by the authorities and had to fight many battles for acceptance. He responded by turning himself into a living work of art to constantly prick the collective conscience of his abusers. He wanted to show people that also rubbish is valuable, and "Make something out of nothing" became the guiding principle of his life.
Schoeman´s art is a visual document of his life: The nomad who wandered the valleys and flatlands of South Africa, picking up rubbish and pulling his rickshaw entirely made from scraps. Like an ox he would "toil and carry the yoke of his life". His coat, patched together with scrap fabric and linen with hessian, was made and worn as a stand against those who ridicule poverty.
His beliefs were made manifest in his famous embroideries, which documented his wanderings trough the country. These he called his "chapters" and depicted his philosophies and his life´s journey. His art was made of scraps, chiefly in small lanterns, and his iconic "karretjies" or wagons.
His work has been shown at major exhibitions by galleries in South Africa, USA, Australia and Europe.
Jan Schoeman died in a tragically fire in his home in 2011.
Something out of Nothing is a meeting with the artist in his last home, centrally based in no man´s land, at an abandoned train station in the Great Karoo. The film was part of the exhibition TALKING RUBBISH, shown at Ciurlionis National Museum of Art / Lithuania, Hordaland International Art Gallery / Bergen / Norway, and IKM / Oslo Museum / Norway.
Supported by the Fritt Ord Foundation and Arts Council Norway.
"To the authority I was rubbish, just a piece of shit. I vowed to prove to them that everything has value. My story is a simple story. Scrap is my study. My father told me: “If you turn your hand upward to beg – you become a slave. If you turn it to the earth, you become a man.” I have made a life from my hands. This life is hired out to me to decorate this earth with glee! I want to give people a message of hope in the form of a lighthouse, and to inspire the youth with a message of moving forward in the form of a wagon. As soon as it starts getting dark, I carry out the lanterns and put a candle inside. Some are hanging in the trees, some are in the sunflowers or on the ground. Then the garden is lighting. Then you see what the meaning of wonders is and what the meaning of life can be, when you make something from nothing with your hands.”
Jan Schoeman
Photo by Knut Egil Wang
Asfaltenglene
Director: Lars Berg
Production Design: Margrete Eskedahl
DoP: Gaute Gunnari
Costume Design: Karen Fabritius Gram
Producer: Synnøve Hørsdal - Maipo Film
" - Sjelden har Oslo-sommeren sett så innbydende og deilig ut som den gjør i Lars Bergs film. Scenografien er i det hele tatt upåklagelig og filmen er fint fotografert."
Vegard Larsen, Dagbladet
Prices:
2011: KiKiFe - Kinder Kino Festival Schwabiche Gmund: Best Feature Film - Children´s Jury
Jenny
Director: Ingvild Søderlind
Production Design: Margrete Eskedahl
DoP: Jakob Ingimundarson
Editor: Pål Gengenbach
Sound Design: Svenn Jakobsen
Producer: Frode Søbstad - Mediamente
Cast: Sofie Lie Rapp, Trym Solhaug Vassvik, Tiril Ilsaas Pharo, Georgia Mayanta
14 year´s old Jenny attends Secondary School in one of Oslo´s suburbs. She is lonely and unhappy. With an outsider´s gaze she observes the game of boys and girls, a nearly animal-like merry-go-round that Jenny never gets to be part of. Not least she yearns for Adam. Adam hardly notices her, however, and Jenny is forced into a voyeuristic position. But one evening she sees something not meant for her eyes. And the balance of power is realigned.
Prices:
2011: BUFF International Children and Young People´s Film Festival: Region Skåne´s Short Film Award
2011: Plein la bobine - Sancy Film Festival for Young People: Public´s Choice Award
2011: The Norwegian Short Film Festival: Terje Vigen Award, The Norwegian Film Workers Association´s Technical Award for Sound design
2011: Capalbio Cinema International Short Film Festival: Capalbio Grand Prix Jury Award for Best Photography, ADCI Award for Best creative idea
http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentarer/Poetisk-realisme-fra-Holmlia-6270641.html
Mannen er en morder
Director: Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad
Production design: Margrete Eskedahl
DoP: Nils Eilif Bremdal
Screenplay: Hans Petter Blad / Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad
Producer: Nina Maria Barbosa Blad - Barbosa Blad Film
Cast: Leo Ajkic, Eric Magnusson, Janne Heltberg Haarseth
Damir is in jail for murder, he receives hundreds of love letters from female admirers he doesn't know. His psychologist wants him to answer the letters, and is perplexed by all the amorous attention Damir gets.
Den Stundesløse
By Ludvig Holberg
Agder Teater
Director: Bentein Baardson
Costume Design: Margrete Eskedahl
Set Design: Per Olav Austdahl
Lighting Design: Kine Kvendseth
Cast: Trond Høvik, Brit Elisabeth Haagensli, Rune Andersen, Jørn-Bjørn Fuller-Gee, Morten Svartveit, Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal, Anne Ma Usterud, Knut Østrådal, Øystein Carlsen, Johnny Askeland, Kjetil Hansen Rynning, Ole Martin Kyllo, Inger Johanne Mæsel
Photo by Jon Petter Thorsen Aptum
Sketch of Katharina, The Brothers Karamasov, The National Theatre, Oslo
Sketch of Smerdjakov, The Brothers Karamasov, The National Theatre, Oslo
Sketch of an Officer, The Brothers Karamasov, The National Theatre, Oslo
Sketch model, The Rubber Barons, Hålogaland Theatre, Tromsø
Costume sketches, The Rubber Barons, Hålogaland Theatre, Tromsø
Costume sketches, The Fidget
La Boheme
Agder Teater
Director - Ingrid Forthun
Costume Design - Margrete Eskedahl
Set Design - Alf Gunnar Huseth
Lighting Design - Hans-Åke Sjøquist
Cast: Sarah Fox, Per-Håkan Precht, Lise Granden Berg, Otto Maidi, Krister St.Hill, Kosma Rauner, Arild Helleland
Photo by Kjartan Bjelland / Tor Erik Schrøder
" En kunstnerisk suksess!"
Hans Christian Vadseth, Fædrelandsvennen
