Heartattack was my second film, made in 1995-97. It is about love and the lack of love, about envy and lonelyness in a society where the surface and the looks were most important. This was in the time of grunge, and the computer and internet was making its first impressions on society. With this film I wanted to make an expression of unquiety and noise – a cold and loveless world, like the society seemed to me at the time.

I was given a grant from NFI – Norsk Filminstitutt by Kjersti Alver – to make this film, and I had a one years permission from my NRK job. The film was made in classical animation, drawn on cells and shot on 35 mm film. It is shot on only twos – that means that no cell in the film stands for more than 2 frames. The original electronica music was made by Holy Cow/Anders Hofseth and Eirik Solheim. The film is 3 minutes long.

The film went to premiere in the Short Film Festival in Grimstad right away in June 1997. It was shown in a big number of festivals in Europe and Asia.

You can see the film here. Indeed the film is in a very bad shape.