Christian Einshøj and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film The Mountains, Super Nintendo, anxiety, depression, memory, family photography and
trauma, existentialism, expectations and the experience of pure joy.
Watch the trailer here and head to Hot Docs for more information.'
Synopsis:
Two decades after the tragic death of his brother, the director Christian Einshøj's family is falling apart. But when his overworked CEO dad is unexpectedly let off and
decides to sell the family home, Christian goes back home in a final desperate attempt to assemble the family and recover what is lost.
Armed with 30 years of home-video, 75,000 family photos and three tightly fit superhero costumes, he ventures into landscapes of long-lost time, in an attempt to
confront a 25-year-old tragedy, and the hidden wounds left in its wake. It's a story of fathers and sons, of vast collections of stamps and amateur videography, of long
distance business-class flights and all the other ways in which we flee, instead of talking about that which hurts – and of the redemption that can follow when the
silence is eventually breached.
About Christian:
Christian Einshøj is a self-taught director and film editor born in Denmark in 1985 but raised in a Norwegian suburb. His editing credits include Bodil and the award winning Q’s Barbershop.
In 2018 his short doc Haunted was awarded Best International Short at HotDocs and went on to play at festivals around the world. The Mountains is his first feature film.
Image Copyright and Credit: Christian Einshøj.
F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.
For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.
With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound.
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