NEO-EUROPE (2019). Film still.
Music video album by Capital Fluxus
Single channel film. 36 min. 2K. 2.39:1 Scope. Color. Stereo sound.
Languages: English, French, Kinyarwanda, Danish and Swedish
Subtitles: English
Four college friends graduated in 2015 and have since spread out over the globe. To Paris, New York, Stockholm and Copenhagen. From being a tightly knit crew they have grown to only know the glossy surface of each other's lives.
Céleste suffers panic attacks every day following a life as an alienated member of the diaspora. Jonas' sense of insufficiency and his pursuit of appreciation has driven him to desperation and suicide. Jacob witnesses how toxic masculinity leads to the rape of one of his friends. Robin has started spinning faster and faster in to the world of drugs in the metropolis.
Neo-Europe follows the four friends as their annual reunion in Copenhagen closes in and tragedy is brewing. Turning facade into honesty seems unlikely, hopelessness into hope nearly impossible. Might it be that they have sought their dreams in the wrong place?
NEO-EUROPE (2019). Film still.
NEO-EUROPE (2019). Film still.
NEO-EUROPE (2019). Film still.
In a time when our lives are increasingly spent on observing, analyzing and interpreting ourselves - as well as tying ourselves to our own identity - Confessions embodies a cognitive dissonance: the overwhelming contradiction of constantly both doubting and affirming oneself. I believe that we by voicing our pains and struggles of subjectification might expose emotional, cognitive and social dissonances, as well as open ourselves up for new understandings and connections. We might even find ways of breaking out of our ceaselessly looping thoughts and inner tyrants. That is at least my hope.
With Diêm Camille, Johan Bech Jespersen, Klaus Tange, Carla Eleonora Feigenberg, Niels Justesen, Camilla Søeberg
WRITER, DIRECTOR & CINEMATOGRAPHER Jacob Schill
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT Luke Buckley, Daro Hansen,
Jonas Algers and Gala Hernández López
EDITOR Grit Tind Mikkelsen
ADDITIONAL EDITING Daniel Abraham Basse and Jan-Niklas Thape
CASTING ASSISTANCE Gro Therp
SOUND RECORDIST Rasmus Emil Mikkelsen
RUNNER Julie Nymann
Thanks to Jane Jin Kaisen, Agnieszka Polska and Maria Colomer Canyelles
MEDIUM 7-channel video installation
SOUND 4-channel, 3 x stereo
ASPECT RATIO 4:5
RESOLUTION 1700 x 2125
LANGUAGE English
Confessions is divided into five chapters:
IN THE SKY OF THE MIND
Length: 02:57 min. Single channel video. Stereo sound. Loop.
PERSONAL ATTENTION
Length: 19:02 min. 4-channel video. 4-channel sound. Loop.
LIKE I COULD GROW IF YOU LET ME
Acrylic mirror glass mounted on aluminum frame. Dimensions: 200 cm x 300 cm 4 cm.
YOU KNOW VERY WELL THAT I’M NOT REALLY WHAT YOU THINK I AM
Length: 03:34 min. Single channel video. Stereo sound. Loop.
MY NAME
Length: 03:15 min. Single channel video. Stereo sound. Loop.
NEO-EUROPE was first shown in the play “16:29” by Danish playwright Anna Malzer at Teater Momentum, Odense.
16:29 REVIEWS:
★★★★★ - Jyllands-Posten
★★★★★ - Sceneblog
★★★★ - Gregers Dirckinck-Holmfeld
★★★★ - Den 4. Væg
★★★★ - Ungt Teaterblod
★★★★- Nordjyske
ORIGINAL IDEA, MUSIC AND ACTORS Capital Fluxus – Céleste Michel Nshimiyimana, Jacob Schill, Jonas Algers and Robin T. Houselstein
DIRECTORS Céleste Michel Nshimiyimana and Jacob Schill
PRODUCER Maria Colomer Canyelles
EDITOR Thomas Irving
CO-PRODUCER Pierre Valente (Enola Films, France)
ASSISTANT PRODUCER François Rivière, Love Örterströ, Angelo Di Ponziano and Ida Wikfeldt
ASSISTANT EDITOR Nikolaj Dahl
PARIS ACTORS Juliette Lacroix, Romy Leick, Elena Zoz and Paul André
STOCKHOLM ACTORS Alba Ortega Flores, Mathias Martinsson Filén, Olof Berglund, Albin Bjärvall
COPENHAGEN ACTORS Octave Hirwa, Larissa Lmfurayase, IB Magnifique, Elombe Brice Parfait, Simon Latz, Patricia Bbaale Bandak, Malik Grosos, Eder Lopez, Katia De Morais Andersen, Adam Katia, Dorna Rigmor Dehbozorgi, Bo AlgersAnne Algers, Petronilla Nyiramuhire, Laure Talbotier, Marianne Stoltz and Lennart Schill
ART DEPARTMENT Dafne Lechuga Maroto
RUNNERS Laura D’Angeli, Danielle Karen Schultz, Elisa Ferrer Baldomà, Kristín Larsdóttir Dahl, Sawsan Halitim
EXTRAS COPENHAGEN Amanda Luna Drewsen, Daniel Abraham Basse, Sophus August Tuxen, Sebastian Rasmussen, Natalie Collins, Victor Vico, Noemi Costa, Jona Henriquez Ussing, Simon Kandi Ovi Bejinariu, Joe Ricci, Mandy Rep, George Flokas, Roxana Gabriela Ivanescu Zlate, Aida Berisha, Ryan Sherman, Døgg Hoydal, Bianca Christensen, Julia Havinis, Dafne Lechuga Maroto, Laura D’Angeli, Danielle Karen Schultz, Elisa Ferrer Baldomà, Kristín Larsdóttir Dahl, Sawsan Halitim, Mette Nisgaard Larsen, Hans Monrad Graunbøl
SPECIAL THANKS TO Sille Dallmann, Ricky Holm Larsen & Alexandra Marbell, Claus Larsen & Lis Holm Larsen, Bente Abraham & Poul Basse, Anton Leunbach Østergaard, Thierry Houselstein & Anissa, Manolo Diaz Rämö, Kajsa Rosenblad, Anton Ösgård Heilmann, Joachim Ösgård & Nana Ösgård Heilmann, Isak Anshelm, Bo Algers & Anne Algers, Petronilla Nyiramuhire, Laure Talbotier, Marianne Stoltz & Lennart Schill, FUKK - Forenede Uafhængige Københavnske Kunstnere, Maurice Green
We want to talk about mental illness and death but always with a conclusion of hope, love and a spirit of community. Talking from our own experiences with war, depression and suicide, we are telling a story about trying to overcome and coming together as four very different individuals, while making art that transcends each of us individually.
Neo-Europe is the 12th project within the last three years that we as directors and actors collaborate on. Our aim with this film was to create a concoction of based-on-real-life fiction, trap, music video, ambient pop, documentary and techno. To mix the worlds of today’s European upper middle class, middle class and ghetto class in a cocktail that visualizes the state of our continent and the everyday realities of mixed identities.
Neo-Europe is two weeks with the four members of multinational hip-hop group Capital Fluxus where #MeToo, diaspora life, youth drug culture, and the widespread sense of insufficiency are the centerpieces in a film about the hopes and fears of our generation.
