Tower, 2024
HD video with sound, 12:02 min
In the drama ‘Tower,’ we follow a teenager stranded inside of Copenhagen Airport. The teenager moves around within the airport infrastructure, testing the flexibility of the experienced limits of her surroundings. This eventually leads the teenager to venture beyond the usual confines of the airport and into the historical and now closed Vilhelm Lauritzen Terminal from 1937. From there she moves further on into the control tower.
In the film, the control tower serves as a symbolic viewpoint, tying together the teenager’s modern experience with the aged infrastructures and ideals of 20th-century modernity. Through the ventures of the teenager, Tower presents an intimate entry into infrastructural discourse, and how modernity’s physical structures, like electricity, roads, and aviation influence and frame our experiences.
Made with support from: the Danish Arts Foundation, Italienska Palatset, and Vilhelm Lauritzen Terminalen.
Camera: Freja Sofie Kirk
Colour: xuân TT
Sound design: Oliver Nehammer
Score: Klyyre
Cast:
Nina Rita Pape Johanssen as Teenager
Anna Rettl as Air Traffic Controller 1
Kristian Kirk as Air Traffic Controller 2
Stephen McEvoy as Cashier