Jeg vil bo i mitt navn / I want to live in my name (2018) official trailer
Acclaimed writer Tomas Espedal's wild and poetic life
Tomas Espedal is one of the early Norwegian writers to use his one life in a very direct way in his literature. In the documentary "I want to live in my name" we become intimate with the writer both as a writer and a human being, if such a duality is possible in the Espedal case. Director and cinematographer Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo follows the charming Espedal through life and through writing, from hiking in the french mountains, journeys to Gran Canaria and Provence and at home with his aging father, always via his typewriter in the basement at home. The combination of Øymo's poetic and wild photography and the music by Ketil Kinden Endresen makes "I want to live in my name" to an artist portrait that does what the aritst himselves find as his purpose to do, to see what is beautiful.