Director: Nathalie Djurberg
A unique night with films, live performances and an artist talk

Nathalie Djurberg has herself curated this selection of her harrowing animations, and her fiancé and composer Hans Berg, who is behind the clattering barrel organ electronica in all her works, will accompany her earliest film '(untitled) Sunset' live on stage at Statens Museum for Kunst. Berg's music is an ironic reminder of 1970s children's television and puts Djurberg's grotesque and shocking universe into a disconcerting perspective. The selected films are unique works in themselves, while at the same time representing a line of ideas central to her work. 'Badain' is a satirical adaptation of a real 19th century painting, which depicts a black slave who is given to the queen of Sweden as a gift. In 'Camels Drink Water', two camels save a poor boy without legs from dying of thirst in the desert, enabling him to court three pale and flabby old ladies in laced underwear in 'Hungry Hungry Hippos'. 'It's the Mother', on the other hand, talks about an entirely different and hair-raising story about the female body in a monstrous mirror image of nature's dubious order. And in 'Johnny', a curious teenage boy, who is spying on three naked nymphs in a forest, gets more than he bargained for when they finally discover him. 'Putting Down the Prey' realises an eskimo's (escape) fantasy of becoming one with nature. And in the bathroom farce 'Tiger Licking Girl's Butt', the eponymic tiger poses the ever-relevant question: 'Why do I have this urge to do things over and over again?'