THE TEAM
LENE BERG | Director, Writer
Lene Berg (*1965) was born in Oslo and studied film at the Dramatiska Institutet (University College of Film, Radio, Television, and Theater), in Stockholm. In 1997 she directed the feature film En Kvinnas Huvud (A Woman’s Head) and has since produced mixed-media artworks and installations for galleries, museums, and public spaces as well as a number of short films. Most recently Berg directed the award-winning Kopfkino (2012) and GOMP: Tales of Surveillance in Norway 1948−1989 (2014), two feature-length films that reflect her passionate engagement with societal outsiders who challenge the mores of political and social institutions.
LAWRENCE D. “BUTCH” MORRIS | Music
Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris (February 10, 1947−January 29, 2013) was one of the finest cornet players in jazz. He is recognized as the principal theorist in the evolution of Conduction (a term borrowed from physics), a type of structured free improvisation where Morris directed and conducted an improvising ensemble with a series of hand and baton gestures. From 1974 until his death Morris was an innovator at the confluence of jazz, new music, improvisation, and classical music. The music in False Belief, “Nowhere Everafter I, II & III,” is from the album Homeing, recorded live on November 6, 1987, at Quartier Latin, West Berlin.
INGEBJØRG TORGERSEN | Producer, Story editor
Ingebjørg Torgersen (*1963) graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1991 and has worked in film, TV and theatre. Her most recent film was Under et klovnehjerte (She must be able to kiss, 2016); other films includes the short Ozonfisk (1997) and Folk flest bor i Kina Utopia (Nobody is perfect in the perfect country, 2002). Torgersen was a participant in the Oslo cultural spaces Gallery Without Name (GUN) and Sound of Mu, and is a member of WIFT-Nordic (Women in Film and TV). Previously she worked with Berg on Volvox (1989) and GOMP: Tales of Surveillance in Norway 1948−1989 (2014).
ZAYNE ARMSTRONG | Editor
Zayne Armstrong (*1986) has been working with Lene Berg as the editor on False Belief, since mid-2017. He lives and works in Berlin and started making moving-image work in 2007 while studying 4-D fine art at Central Saint Martins, in London. Armstrong developed his practice in the MFA program at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.
MIKAEL D. BRKIC | Assistant to the Director
Mikael D. Brkic (*1987) is a Norwegian contemporary artist who worked as assistant to Lene Berg on False Belief since mid-2017. He obtained his BA from the National Academy of the Arts Oslo, Norway in 2010. He also studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and the Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA.