巴根游乐园 Bakken

A trip to Bakken, which evokes the theme park’s deep history in a collective, artistic process during a single warm summer’s day.

For over 400 years, the theme park Bakken north of Copenhagen has been a place where people have gone to have fun and enjoy life. Today, the old amusement park is a parallel to the more upscale Tivoli in the center of Copenhagen. A popular place with a deep and rich history and a distinctive geography. ‘Bakken’ explores both in a cinematic and social intervention. In two long, uninterrupted one-takes shot over a single summer’s day and night, the camera moves slowly through the park while the guests alternately react to the lens or try to ignore it. A gang of Pierrot clones mingle with the visitors. The film is an joint creation between students of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Danish Film School, initiated independently by the students. Using Bakken as a frame - historically, architecturally and socially - all the contributors helped develop the concept for both the film and the performative interventions in front of the camera, which are sometimes inseparable from the hedonistic and condensed semi-fictional universe that an amusement park is.