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M.M. is a poetic project on a poem from Moestrups collection Golden Delicious. Moestrup sent the poem to 300 persons with the initials M.M. in and around Copenhagen. She retrieved 57 of them, each writing the original M.M (Selvportræt) poem in their own handwriting. They are now published on Afsnit P and manually in the +Laboratorium.

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"Jeg sendte digtet M. M. (Selvportræt) fra min digtsamling Golden Delicious til 300 personer med initialerne M. M. Jeg fandt navne og adresser i telefonbogen for København og omegn. Jeg valgte intuitivt blandt de mange navne med M. M. En treårig og en syvårig hjalp mig med at stemple og frankere de i alt 600 kuverter. Brevene blev sendt fra posthuset på Hovedbanegården.

I et følgebrev bad jeg personerne om at indskrive eller omskrive digtet i hånden og returnere det til mig i en vedlagt svarkuvert. Der var deadline på min fødselsdag, d. 11. 12. 02. Brevene begyndte at dumpe ind sammen med min almindelige post, rudekuverter, fødselsdagshilsner, postkort. En betragtelig bunke breve kom tilbage, fordi modtageren var ubekendt på adressen. Men jeg fik også 57 brevdigte tilbage. 57 forskellige versioner af M. M." Mette Moestrup.

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Digtet "M. M. (Selvportræt)" havde skiftet sammenhæng fra bogen, som blev udgivet og distribueret offentligt, til denne private brevveksling. Bogens digterjeg og selvportrættet var blevet overtegnet af andre jeger, andre M. M.'er. Jeget havde skiftet sammenhæng, ligesom digtet. Jeg tænkte det som et forsøg på en anderledes dialog mellem digter og læser, digt og brev.

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Katastrofetrilogien is a trilogy centered on themes of how stories of historic disasters impact contemporary conversations and relationships. Collaboratively and organically constructed, these three films call upon histories of deadly volcanic ash, great floods, and the plague to tell stories of present day longing, anxiety, and environmental change.

"The Last Volcano / Det siste utbruddet"A story of a catastrophic volcanic eruption and its aftermath is retold by a woman to a man before the slowly turning image of contemporary urban landscape. Though the story seems to reference events of the distant past, its setting and telling raise anxieties related to cycles of memory and forgetting.

Direction: Roderick CooverWriting: Scott Rettberg Translation by: Daniel Apollon, Gro Jørstad Nilsen, and Jill Walker RettbergVoices: Gro Jørstad Nilsen and Jan Arild Breistein

"Cats and Rats / Rotter og katter"A blind date between an American epidemiologist and a Norwegian woman takes place on a transatlantic Skype call. In trying to impress his potential paramour, the American steers the conversation terribly wrong, toward a discussion of the Plague and all the devastating historical memories it entails.

Direction: Roderick CooverWriting: Scott Rettberg Translation by: Jill Walker Rettberg,Voices: Jill Walker Rettberg and Rob Wittig

"Norwegian Tsunami/ Norsk flodbølge"During a cigarette break on an oil platform in the North sea, a Scottish geologist and a Norwegian chef consider a certain strangeness in the waves, their changing spirits, and the last time a tsunami devastated the nearby shores.

Direction: Roderick CooverWriting: Scott Rettberg Translation by: Scott Rettberg and Jill Walker Rettberg,Voices: Gillian Carson and Kristian A. Bjørkelo