Hans Fjellestad

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SUNSET STRIP [coming 2011]
director + writer + producer
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A film about a 1.5-mile curvy stretch of road that has steered world culture for nearly a century... featuring Mickey Rourke, Ozzy Osbourne, Keanu Reeves, Alice Cooper, Sofia Coppola, Sharon Stone, Hugh Hefner, Courtney Love, among many others.

SOUNDING THE SPACE: MUSIC FOR ARCHITECTURE [post-production]
director + producer
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Percussionist Marcos Fernandes reconnects with his homeland by staging elaborate concerts in four historical buildings designed by his grandfather Uheiji Nagano (1867-1937) in Yokohama, Kyoto, Okayama and Matsue.

WHEN THE WORLD BREAKS (2010) [coming soon to dvd]
director + writer + composer
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A fresh look back at Depression-era life, art, cinema, literature, music, culture and politics to see how extreme times are also times of heightened creativity and invention.

THE HEART IS A DRUM MACHINE (2009)
writer + producer
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Why music? Artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession, with Milford Graves, Juliette Lewis, Elijah Wood, John Frusciante, George Clinton, Jason Schwartzman, among others. A "head trip about the heart." (Wired)

MOOG (2004)
director + writer + producer + composer
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Bob Moog shaped musical culture with some of the most inspiring electronic instruments ever created. This "compelling documentary portrait of a provocative, thoughtful and deeply sympathetic figure" (New York Times) peeks into the inventor's mind and the worldwide phenomenon he fomented.

FRONTIER LIFE (2002)
director + writer + producer + composer
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This feature documentary explores the strangely inventive art world of Tijuana, Mexico. A city that has more in common with science fiction novels than history books about Mexico. Filmmaker Magazine calls the film a "fresh, quick-paced, smartly edited doc that boasts an innovative score" and Resonance dubs it one of the "latest and greatest in documentary filmmaking."

LORDS OF CHAOS [in development]
director + writer + producer
| filming 2011 |

Set inside the notorious Norwegian Black Metal music scene of the early 1990s, this narrative feature follows a group of dedicated musicians as their art transforms into brutal violence in the streets of Northern Europe.


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