CREDITS
Director: Iben Haahr Andersen
Producer: Lise Saxtrup
Scriptwriter: Gorm Rasmussen
Cinematographers: Iben Haahr Andersen
Editor: Grete Møldrup
Composer: Rasmus Møldrup
Supported by The Danish Film Institute and DR.
LIFE ACCORDING TO ANTON
4 € – 18 €
-A film by Iben Haahr Andersen.
Year: 2015. Lenght: 58 min
Anton is 87. He has inherited the farm, that time has almost taken. The 9 cows live as long as Anton does. It is a covenant.
Anton’s living in the past. His time with the cows, the hours of the day and the seasons, is his only present. It is cyclical and beautiful; life has its eternity of nature’s repetitions, but the family farm is now a ruin, creeper has pushed the windows into the fine living room and winds on the furniture – no one has been here in decades.
Family and neighbors care for the old, stubborn man, but they are also worried. Anton puts the Danish welfare state to the test, as he insists to take care of himself.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
BIOGRAPHY:
Iben Haahr Andersen graduated from The Danish Film School (1982) as sound designer.
For the last 12 years she has moved into directing documentaries of which four have won acknowledged prices (”My Love”-”Hello my name is lesbian”- ”Two Women on a River” & ”Sound on Life”, ”In Light of the Revolution”).
FILMOGRAPHY
2016: ”Xenia” (55 min, doc), 2015: ”In Light of the Revolution” (55 min, doc), ”Life according to Anton” (58 min, doc), 2012: ”My Love” (58 min, doc), 2009: ”Hello my name is Lesbian” (52 min, doc), 2006: ”Sound on Life” (41 min, doc), 2002: ”Min egen motorhest” (28 min, doc), 1996: ”Two Women on a River” (54 min, doc)
PRESS KIT
FESTIVALS / PRIZES
CPH:DOX, 2015
AM docs, Palm Springs, 2016
Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, 2016
