Kjell

  I have been rewatching my film “Kjell” from 2005. The film is about an aging gay man reliving the past. I wanted this film to be an universal story about lost love and about not fitting in, something everyone could identify with. I wanted to show a  human being i felt great affection for.…

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Magic Hour

  I have so much to say about LA. So many things I have started to write but not finished yet. I am writing about being a woman in this city, about single mothering, the life here seen from a European perspective, about longings, about isolation, about people i meet, the nature, raising children, about…

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Our Fictional Past

Marie-Fleur Charlesworth about her images shot for Paradigm Vol. 1 – Genesis – In conversation with and written by Tonje Kristiansen – One of the first things photographer Marie-Fleur Charlesworth remembers was the light on the floor in a Beaulieu apartment she was in at the age of 3. Just that. How the light looked.…

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Reise Big Sur

“Aldri har jeg sett et vakrere sted,” tenkte Tonje Kristiansen, da hun kjørte Highway 1 fra Los Angeles til Big Sur.
Av Tonje Kristiansen | Foto: TOnje kristiansen / Jenny Hueston

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One For The Road

“You can sit in the exact same booth where Greta Garbo and Gary Cooper used to have breakfast together. You can hang by the bar where Lauren Bacall used to drink her martinis. Every day I sit down at the same desk that my great grandfather worked from.” Mark Echeverria, Owner of Musso & Frank…

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Kjell

In the early 1950s Kjell discovered he was gay. Love had to be looked for abroad. Since he was good-looking, intelligent, and charming, he soon became popular in St. Tropez, Cannes, Paris, and London.
Directed by: Tonje Kristiansen

Beldina – The New Belle In Town

An interview with Beldina Written by Tonje Kristiansen “If I were a bell I would be ringing” is a quote from one of young beautiful Kenyan/Swedish soul singer Beldina’s favorite jazz standards, performed by Miles Davis. And she is most certainly ringing these days. Odalisque’s Tonje Kristansen met Beldina at Soho House in West Hollywood.…

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Love Lessons – Gitte Witt

Women of all ages talking about their romantic experiences and how their expectations and perspectives have changed over time. – directed by Tonje Kristiansen 2007.