Filmaker and actress Jeanne Boe will show her short film, "Oxblood," and discuss why it was important to her to make this deeply felt movie.
Jeann Boe has performed in the Norwegian Embassy, universities, museums and more. She opened amongst Queen Sonja's exhibition in Houston during the year of the Ibsen jubilee in 2006. She has also played in seamen’s churches, cultural centers, and in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Houston and Los Angeles. Her lates tour was in Nuuk Greenland where she played at the National theatre.
She is now touring the US with her project: ANCESTOR’S – OXBLOOD, and will be visiting Minot, Fargo, Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francsico and New York.
Jeanne is in Minneapolis as part of the Crossings 200th Anniversary of Norwegian Migration celebration. She will present the film, talk about the topic, reflect on sustainability and cultural heritage and what it means to us all. Jeanne will also tell about her family’s own Migration story to America from Serkeland in Sijan, Q&A and more.
Synopsis:
Oxblood: A family has toiled, lived, cried, watched the sun rise and rain trickle over fields and meadows for generations. It is a story of vulnerability and tradition. About people and livestock and about surviving side by side with what puts food on the table. The story takes place over a few short summer weeks when the adult daughter Ingrid comes home to the farm, where her father Oscar is struggling to keep the farm going as he gets older.
Ingrid: Jeanne Bøe
Oscar: Erik Hivju
Director: Gard B. Eidsvold
Music: Nils Petter Molvær
Screenwriter: Jeanne Bøe
Trailer: Oxblood - (Okseblod) on Vimeo