About
Frode Fjerdingstad.
Cinematographer, photographer, editor and director.
Contact: you (at) frode.me
Working at NRK - The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
CURRICULUM VITAE
FRODE FJERDINGSTAD, BORN: 1975 NORWAY
EDUCATION:
2011 WERNER HERZOG ROGUE FILM SCHOOL
1998 - 2000 LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION
1996 - 1997 OSLO FOTOKUNSTSKOLE
1995 - 1996 SKJEBERG FOLKEHØYSKOLE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 HØSTUTSTILLINGEN, KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO, NORWAY.
2019 HØSTUTSTILLINGEN, KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO, NORWAY.
2013 HØSTUTSTILLINGEN, KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO, NORWAY.
2012 HØSTUTSTILLINGEN, KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO, NORWAY.
2010 HØSTUTSTILLINGEN, KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO, NORWAY.
2011 OUTLAW ART NEW YORK USA
2009 HORNED BEAUTIES MUST DIE OUT, STILL LIGHT, BARCELONA, SPAIN
2009 DON´T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT´S COVER, LITTERATURHUSET, OSLO, NORWAY
2008 PETER HAY HALPERT FINE ART, NEW YORK, USA.
2008 2007 (11TH) JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, THE NATIONAL ART CENTER, TOKYO, JAPAN.
2008 DON´T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT´S COVER, GARTEN STUDIO GALLERY, BERLIN, GERMANY.
2007 SOIRESHOT 07, BASEL, SWITZERLAND.
2007 PLUSSMINUSTREDVE, GULDEN KUNSTVERK, STEINBERG, NORWAY
2007 REALITY UNDONE, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX GALLERY, ENGLAND.
2006 NOVEMBERUTSTILLINGEN, DRAMMEN MUSEUM, LYCHEPAVLIONGEN, DRAMMEN, NORWAY.
2004 ONE DOT ZERO, ICA, LONDON, ENGLAND.
SELECTED FILMSCREENINGS:
2024 KORTFILMFESTIVALEN, GRIMSTAD, NORWAY.
2024 HØSTUTSTILLINGEN, KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO, NORWAY.
2014 SOMNABULISM / SERENA MANEESH,
THE ISSUE PROJECT ROOM NEW YORK, USA
2013 SOMNABULISM / SERENA MANEESH,
HENIE ONSTAD KULTURSENTER OSLO, NORWAY
2013 HØSTUTSTILLINGEN VIDEO PROGRAM:
KUNSTNERENES HUS og 27 OTHER ART INSTITUTIONS
IN NORWAY
2013 SCREEN SPACE MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
2012 RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID, AT PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARIS, FRANCE
2012 HØSTUTSTILLINGEN VIDEO PROGRAM:
KUNSTNERENES HUS, OSLO, KINOKINO STAVANGER, GRÅMØLNA, TRONDHEIM KUNSTMUSEUM, NORD NORSK KUNSTMUSEUM, TROMSØ, HORDALAND KUNSTSENTER, KRISTIANSAND KUNSTHALL.
2012 TODAY´S ART INT´L FESTIVAL BEYOND ART, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
MODATIK 011
15-16 DECEMBER, 2011 KM KULTURUNEA CULTURAL CENTRE. SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN.
17 DECEMBER, 2011- 8 JANUARY, 2012. CRISTOBAL BALENCIAGA MUSEOA, GETARIA, SPAIN.
2011 OUT OF FASHION MOSCOW PIONER-CINEMA, MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
2011 MODA LISBOA TRANSFUSION ESPACIO NIMAS, LISBOA, PORTUGAL.
(LISBON FASHION WEEK)
2011 FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CURTAS METRAGENS DE SAO PAULO.
SAO PAULO, BRASIL.
2011 OUT OF FASHION MAASTRICHT EDITION, NAIM / BUREAU EUROPA, MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS.
2011 L’OREAL MELBOURNE FASHION FESTIVAL CULTURAL PROGRAMME. “LA VITESSE ET LA PIERRE,” MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.
2011 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.
“LA VITESSE ET LA PIERRE”
2010 UNSOUND FESTIVAL, CRACOW, POLAND.
2010 ASVOFF 2010 CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE
2010 ASVOFF MILANO PALAZZO MORANDO, MILANO, ITALIA.
2010 ASVOFF 2010 HYERES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FASHION AND PHOTOGRAPHY, HYERES, FRANCE
2010 ASVOFF, SCOPE ART FAIR NEW YORK AT LINCOLN CENTER, NEW YORK, USA.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 APOCALYPSE: FRODE & MARCUS: PARSONS PARIS SCHOOL OF ART + DESIGN, PARIS, FRANCE.
2009 DOKUMENT: PANDAMAN JONAS KLEERUP GALLERY, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.
2008 LAIT UNE COULEUR DOUBLE ELVIS GALLERY, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.
2008 LAIT UNE COULEUR INGERSTEDT GALLERY, PARIS, FRANCE.
2006 LE POISSON ET D’AUTRE CHOSE. NOTTINGHILL ARTS CLUB, LONDON, ENGLAND.
GRANTS:
2018 PROSJEKTSTØTTE, KULTURRÅDET
2011 VEDERLAGSFONDET, NORWAY (2 Yr. ARTS GRANT)
2011 LINDBACK LANGAARD STIFTELSE, NORWAY (FUNDING FOR ART PROJECT)
2010 CITE DES ARTS, LINDBACK LANGAARD STIFTELSE, NORGE (ARTS RECIDENCY)
COLLECTIONS:
LARS LILJENDAHL, PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION (SWEDEN)
PETER HAY HALPERT, PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION (USA)
SELECTED PRESS:
RODEO MAGAZINE . MOTHER MAGAZINE . THE GUARDIAN WEEKEND . TCHAD MAGAZINE . TIME OUT. STYLE . MONTE-CARLO . BON . LIVRAISON . METAL . TESTMAG . THE ROOM . ANOTHER MAGAZINE . SMUG . FILTER . INTERVIEW MAGAZINE . SPIN MAGAZINE . THE GUARDIAN . MTV . VICE MAGAZINE . UNDER THE INFLUENCE MAGAZINE
OTHER:
HONORABLE MENTION, PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS, 2009
JURY RECOMENDED WORKS / ARTS DIVISION, 2007 JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL.
MEMBER OF:
NBK
FORBUNDET FRIE FOTOGRAFER
UKS
BOOKS:
2013 BEEKEEPER - LIVRAISON BOOKS
2009 GRAUPUNKT - LIBRARYMAN
Clients:
Björn Borg, NETFLIX, Sony Music, NordDDB, Fallon, Universal, Atlantic Records, Sub Pop, Memphis-Industries, Telegram Records, Forsman Bodenfors, Soundtracs, Smug, The Guardian, Oslo Kommune, Orkla, Schibsted, Telenor Group, Canal Digital, Anorak, Whyred, Fiction Records, Naïve Records, Smalltown Supersound, Tiger of Sweden, Ingrid, Leaf Label, Livraison, Mother Magazine, Under the Influence Magazine, Jansen Plateproduksjon, Rodeo, Kunstforum, Forum
FRODE & MARCUS — BEEKEEPER
(L—B. 002) Published by Livraison Books 2013
In the backwoods of a deserted landscape a man is busy conducting bizarre experiments on bees. He views himself as their protector and caretaker. But there’s something unnerving about his methods. His intentions are literally veiled as we never see his face. A faint post-apocalyptic aura hangs over it all. Everything is marked by slow decay. Between sudden fits of anger and excitement lethargy seems to come over him. Long lost in his own universe, the man goes about his business oblivious to the outside world. If such a world even exists.
It’s impossible to say who the man we meet in Frode & Marcus photo novel Beekeeper actually is. This is one of many enigmas that the novel won’t give away. In all its ambiguity this carefully constructed tale of isolation, disorder and new becomings asks us to descend into the deepest layers of our subconscious.
Thus, any possible explanation as to the identity of the story’s anti-hero is perpetually kept on hold. He could be part of a shady military experiment gone wrong or an outcast from a strange tribe of woodsmen. And if this is an interior journey through a muddled mind that we’ve embarked on, well it’s very hard to say, since the only thing to go on is the visual manifestations of the beekeeper’s state of mind.
Despite the omnipresence of an almost romantic sunlight reminiscent of Aleksandr Sukorov’s hallucinatory 1987 film Days of Eclipse, Beekeeper is touched by an undercurrent of catastrophe that gradually contaminates everything. Most of all, it appears to have taken hold of the man’s mind. The secret of bees seems to have given his existence an unclear purpose in this beautiful but isolated sun-tinged universe.
And this is crucial. Because in the end the big question raised here is existential. Every human being strives to establish some purpose in life. But what if purpose becomes an obsession that overtakes life? Determined to crack whatever the code of bees may be, the anti-hero of Beekeeper leaves chaos in his wake.
The allure of the highly organized life of bees is, in a sense, understandable. Bees serve a greater purpose that the beekeeper seems to lack. They live, they play their part in reproduction with predictable monotony, they die. Clean and simple. The beekeeper, on the other hand, is an incarnation of the darkest forces of human nature. He is fallible, confused and lonely. He can never be sure that he has found his nirvana. In the end, to paraphrase Samuel Beckett, he can at the most hope to fail better the next time he tries to solve the mystery of the bees.
EDITION: 333 FORMAT: 330 X 230 MM PAGES: 76 IMAGES: 70 PRINT: FULL FLUORESCENT COLOR ISBN: 978—91—980225—1—3
Graupunkt. Frode & Marcus
“Grey is its own complement, grey has no opposite. The color grey is often associated with aging or the passage of time. Grey may represent a color, grey may be neutral. A point is a 0-dimensional object.”
Frode & Marcus
On assignment from the Paris & Stockholm based publisher Libraryman Co., Ltd. – the Scandinavian photographers duo Frode & Marcus have taken a roadtrip around the twisty mountain roads of Norway. The project resulted in Graupunkt, a photobook including black and white images of Norwegian landscapes and an essay by the New York based writer, critic and editor, Julie Cirelli.
Softcover + transparent cover
170 x 130mm (6.7 x 9 inches)
36 pages b/w offset
ISBN: 978-91-86269-00-5
First Edition
Printed in an edition of 500 copies, numbered and signed