^{Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn}

^INFO

_{Choreographies towards loss}

^{60 min, experimental documentary, 2024}

^{If human-made extinction was a choreography, this is how we have
performed it. The great auk was the original penguin, but disappeared
from the Earth in the mid-1800s. The filmmaker travels around to meet
various people and places with a connection to the extinct bird, from
the home of the author of The Great Auk in England to the old zoological
museum in Copenhagen, where the entrails of the last two great auks are
kept in glass jars. Through their stories and observations we look back
on the life of a species that will never return.}

_Cast

^{Ragna Sandvoll, Mira Stadt Wang, Jon Fjeldså, Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn,

Tim Birkhead, Mikkel Holger, Hilmar Malmquist, Gísli Pálsson, Katla Kjartansdóttir,

Errol Fuller, Ólöf Nordal and Sturla Magnússon}

_{Written, directed and produced by
Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn

Production company

Vidåpne Øyne}

_{Cinematography
Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn, Margo Peegel, Anton Kai,

Jens Alfred Raahauge}

_{Sound

Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn, Margo Peegel, Anton Kai}

_{Editing

Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn

Editing consultants}
_{Maj Hasager, Margo Peegel, Joachim Koester}

_{Script

Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn}

_{Camera assistance

Tone Marit Helle}

_{Costumes

Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn}

_{Costumes consultant

Torunn Anfinsen

Grading

Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn

Sound design, edit & mix

Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn

Sound studio

Inter Arts Center

Sound mixing consultants}
_{Mathias Kristersson, Dragan Buvac, Maj Hasager, Margo Peegel}

_{Processing and scanning

Mutascan

The film is produced with the support from

Helge Ax:son Johnson's foundation, Crafoord Foundation travel grant, Fredrika Bremer Association Scholarship Foundation, Fritt Ord and Trafo

Thanks to

Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Anna Sveinsdóttir, Þorvaldur Þór Björnsson, Tromsø Museum, Vanessa Pitusi, Karl Frafjord, Elisabeth Nilsen, Varanger Museum, Maria Bertheussen Skrydstrup, Eli Myrseth, Pingvinhotellet, Arnhild Engstad, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Icelandic Museum of Natural History, Inter Arts Center, Lili Nottrot, Øresundsbroen, Lizette Sjögren, Hans Ohrt, Tom Gilbert, Tino Schott, Jörgen Hellmann, Thomas Alerstam, EvaMarie Lindahl, Tobias Linné, Gro Birgit Ween, Malmö Museum, Peter Andrew Hosner, the old Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, Mette Riise Kristensen, Karou Calamy, Jonas Jönsson, Alejandro Cesarco, Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon, Sigurður Harðarson and my family}

_{“Choreographies towards loss set the stage for the audience to enter artworks which echoed loss and a void, full of wonderment and poetics. The gallery was dimly lit and kept minimal, leaving room for the viewer to enter the web of interconnectedness between animals, humans and nature.“}

^{- Karin Hald}

_{Installation view from Gallery KHM1, Malmö}

_{Installation view from Østlandsutstillingen}
_{Photo: Kunstdok / Tor Simen Ulstein / Nitja senter for samtidskunst}

_{Photo: Mikhela Greiner / Nitja senter for samtidskunst}