Lars Norén
The making of Norén’s Drama
I describe my position as a researcher thoroughly: both in the context of my developing relationship with Norén and the ensemble and in how I myself work as a filmmaker, how I work with the technique, and so on. This description contains both the rehearsals and the afterplay up to and including my second interview with Norén.
My position is part of the analysis as well, in the sense that not only do I reason about the influence of me, myself and my camera but also about the 69 hours of film documentation – the result of my own work and representative therefore of some of the conditions under which a filmmaker is working.
Further to this, I describe in a particular chapter how I undertook the making of my 60-minute film Norén’s Drama (2007), which is about Norén’s creative process. With the film I was able to both observe and manifest an experience of the process of creating meaning.
I describe what was hard to tell in the film, and also my discussion with Norén about the film.
