Upside Down Everything Is Abstract… My Father Said
A true story about heritage and how it turns everything up-side-down.
About the film
"Upside down everything is abstract," my father said. And from painting cubist women, heavily inspired by Picasso, he ended up in complete chaos until the summer before he died. A strong, humorous and very personal film story about a daughter's relationship with his father and his art.
About the filmmaker
Anne Haugsgjerd (b. 1944) was originally trained as a graphic artist at the Norwegian School of Crafts and Design, but has been making films since the 1980s. She works in the short film format and in the intersection between fiction and documentary. She herself has described her often humorous and reflective, biographical and self-revealing films as "bastards". Her most famous film Life at Frogner (1986) received both the Amanda nomination and the audience award at the Short Film Festival in Grimstad. Later, she has been presented several times at the renowned Oberhausen short film festival where also More Woman, More Cry premiered.