DIRECTORS COMMENT

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"I was living in Nesodden across the fjord from Oslo when one day a group of people approached me.  They wanted me to make a film about what was happening in the fjord just outside their living room windows. These people had no actual knowledge of water and pollution.  I had looked at it myself and was concerned, so I took my camera, and a journey of 8 years began. I was with them, interviewing the authorities that had paid for and defended this project.  As we went along things got wilder and wilder-, so wild that an outsider might not believe the madness that was occurring.

In the film I have not tried to take sides but leave it to the audience to decide. The details of the film brought up issues of democracy, as well as the motives of the authorities. In our society today, Industry has the final word not the environment or peoples’ health. It is a madness that one day for sure will come to a disastrous conclusion. Before we released the film, I was interviewed about my expectations. I said it will either create a lot of noise or total silence. It was as good as total silence after the film was screened at NRK."