Alexander Tovborg & Jeremy Deller

As part of our two current exhibitions Charlottenborg Art Cinema show two films over the summer; a documentary about the artist Alexander Tovborg and a documentary of a major performance work created by Jeremy Deller.

Battle of Orgreave (2001) by Jeremy Deller, 63min:
Battle of Orgreave is a documentation of the re-enactment of a confrontation that Jeremy Deller had witnessed as a young person on TV, where striking miners were chased up a hill and pursued through a village. It has since become an iconic image of the 1984 strike – having the quality of a war scene rather than a labour dispute. For this performance Deller asked eg former miners to participate in the staging of a battle that occurred within living memory, alongside veterans of the campaign. About eight-hundred historical re-enactors and two-hundred former miners who had been part of the original conflict performed in this event which is documented in this filmwhich Deller describes as “digging up a corpse and giving it a proper post-mortem, or as a thousand-person crime re-enactment.”

Alexander Tovborg: The Knight of Faith (2019) by Andreas Johnsen, 96 min:
The director Andreas Johnsen has followed Alexander Tovborg for 4 1/2 years and created a documentary in which both the artist’s doubts, faith and ecstasy are captured. The film starts with the creation of the work ‘The Knight of Faith’, which depicts Noah’s Ark as a bouncy castle. It follows Tovborg as a creative artist in a search for faith and the religious – but also to the birth of his own child. The film reflects the fluid boundary between the artist and the private person, Alexander tovborg – a difficult balancing act that has led to ups and downs and difficulties in eg. handling the pressure of the outside world’s expectations.

The films are looping during our opening hours and the the entry is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.