REVIR - EVERYTHING YOU HOLD DEAR /
REVIR - SØSKENDE FOR LIVET
Creative documentary one-off, 84 min., 2023
Revir is a film about longing. Siblings Susie and Sune have been left to themselves since childhood. Together they buy an old farmhouse and surround themselves with animals—live, dead and in different stages of resurrection: She is a promising taxidermist and he has decided to sustain her dream.
But they long for different things and old ghosts reappear. Sune cut ties with their mother eight years ago but now she is intruding. They travel to the European Taxidermy Championships where Susie puts her frail ambitions to the test. When their mother shows up, family ties are challenged.
The film explores the landscape inhabited by Susie and Sune and the nature that inhabits them. Is siblinghood enough? Or is it too much?
Director Peter Hammer
Producer Vibeke Vogel
Cinematographer Peter Hammer, Jacob Sofussen
Editor Anders Villadsen
Sound design Rasmus Winther Jensen
Composer Lars Greve
With the support of New Danish Screen, Danish Film Institute and DR TV
Screenings World premiere at CPH:DOX 2023 in Politiken:DOX competition, International premiere at Hot Docs 2023, official selection MakeDox 2023, in competition for Best Nordic Documentary at Nordisk Panorama 2023
TRAILER
Peter Hammer
Peter Hammer is a filmmaker and researcher. He holds an MA in artistic research in and through cinema from the Dutch Film Academy. His research centres on imagination as a critical mode of emancipation from dominant narratives, taking cues from coincidences and encounters. He's an award-winning director and creative producer of documentaries and experimental factual programming with the Danish Broadcasting Cor- poration. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the Danish School of Media & Journalism. He began his career in 2005 as an investigative reporter, exposing foul play and chasing crooks but soon became interested in a more artistic and cinematic approach to image-making, story, and character.