THE SELF PORTRAIT

Norway 2020 - DCP - 70 minutes

In Norwegian with English subtitles

Directors: Katja Hogset, Margreth Olin, Espen Wallin

Producer: Margreth Olin

Print Courtesy: Cinephil

Lene Marie Fossen was a gifted photographer who suffered from severe anorexia. Her eating disorder was at the center of her artistic practice and the tool with which she engaged in the representation of her own illness. This haunting portrait reveals how she explores her struggles through her own self-transcendent photography. At once beautiful and undeniably painful, her extraordinary catalog of images encourages us to think beyond how we understand this devastating disorder: “If only it was about snapping your fingers and beginning to eat again.” Her photographs and her reality are overwhelming in this remarkable documentary.

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