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I am preparing an exhibition featuring art and footage from the short film project Black Milk. The exhibition will be held in Haugesund from august 16th during the international film festival. It will feature my original artwork and concepts for the film and script - plus a whole lot of behind the scenes footage and stories.

I know most of you can't make it there, but I am posting much of the content at our Black Milk fan page as well. Go ahead and like it! -> facebook.com/blackmilkmovie

More content on the facebook page will arrive as we are closing in to the final launch of the movie!
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I Black Milk

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It's been over two years since I was approached by a director who had heard about a project of mine called Black Milk. It was a story set in a highly stylized and minimalistic world – a world seemingly impossible to imagine when told. I had a screenplay without words and dialogue.

Luckily I've been a visionary with trained abilities to visualize… I had a series of paintings – surreal and symbolically laden landscapes inviting to a trip of subtle nightmares that did not need to be explained. I witnessed great enthusiasm around my paintings. Though everyone seemed to understand the potential of these visuals, no one could really point out what they were about. One of the biggest enthusiasts was of course the soon to become director for the project, Skjalg Molvær.

Together with the director, we started developing this project into a film format. It was decided to become a short film. I got deeply into storytelling, read myself up on screen writing, and together we started enhancing and pull together the story while preserving the original vision and look from the original paintings.

And what a look this film was going to have! My concepts for the film meant a lot of difficulties. It soon turned out that this project would become huge! The project involves special effects, computer animation, green screens, and last but not least, a giant set piece.

After a series of technical tests, research and even a great deal of pioneering, we were finally ready for production. It turned out to be a huge budget for such a small film. The artistic value of the project and the line-up of a great and talented crew involved turned out to be quite convincing. We received financial support from Filmkraft Rogaland, Vestnorsk Filmsenter og Norsk Filminstitutt. The film has now a budget of over one million nok, and is being produced by Genesis Film and Vidvinkel Film. This is by far my biggest project, and I've learned so much from the process of being involved with just about everything during pre-production.

The film is being shot in a grandeur warehouse/office building in Haugesund, west coast of Norway. The building houses the living quarters for the film crew and the studio itself. Currently we live there as a great art collective building sets, eat good food and enjoying the most exciting and productive summer ever! I plan share some interesting and resourceful stories from the many challenges we met during our work with this film trough my blog.

Read more about the project at www.sortmelk.no (see also english version).
Follow production photos, behind the scenes and news trough Facebook.

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I am now available trough even more social web. My facebook page will keep you up to date with events, exhibition photos, news and other goodies :)
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250 000 for Black Milk
<img  title="Black Milk comp" src="www.egilpaulsen.com/blog/wp-co…" alt="Black Milk comp" width="100%" />

Filmkraft Rogaland recently allocated 250 000 NOK in production funds for the short movie project I've been working on called Black Milk. A big thank to Filmkraft for giving us a greenlight from their part!

Filmkraft also gave funds for developing the project last year. This has been a tremendous help as this is a very complicated shot. It requires a certain amount of expertise within special effects, scenography and visual effects. Since last year we have run several test shots for lighting, makeup and special effects. Even though this is a highly ambitious project, the help from a talented and motivated crew has made this project very promising. The amount of time spent on refining the look and feel of the film trough careful planning has made Black Milk go much further than expected with limited funds.

As a short film, the process and careful preparation has been quite extraordinary, and by some, considered estimable, and as a bonus from this the whole process from early on is being recorded for an in-depth behind the scenes documentary.

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Project description in norwegian
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The Meta Monk series will be exhibited during the By:Larm festival in Oslo, Norway, 18-21. february 2009! Limited edition prints will be available for purchase, and all of the six featured artworks will be printed on 1,5 meter wide canvas.

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Final offer: Meta Monks Prints



In case you are interested in buying prints of the Meta Monks-series from either DeviantPrints or TheUntappedSource, now is your chance to get them trough the online (cheap) system.

In a couple of weeks I will be introducing the series in a more exclusive limited edition counting only 99 each! These prints will be signed, numbered and of course in a much higher quality. I spent about 12 hours together with an expert in the field fine tuning, testing and printing the first batch!

Prices and more details will be announced in time along with my upcoming exhibition which will be held during the By:Larm 2009 festival in Oslo, Norway 19-21 february.

- Egil

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Since it is almost a year since last journal entry, I figured it was time for an update. Though few deviations added, it feels like I've been having a lot of things 'going on' anyways. :P

Why not give me a chance to sum up my artsy year of 2008:

:bulletred: Made a series of paintings called 'Meta Monks' - a rather cryptic and esoteric collection of ink paintings suggesting recognizable meta-belief patterns. More closely described here www.egilpaulsen.com/blog/?p=90
The Meta Monks-series will be exhibited at the ByLarm festival in Oslo early 2009 bylarm.no/

:bulletred: Came in contact with a film producer and director who were interested in a short movie screenplay I wrote called 'Black Milk'. Since then I've been working as screenwriter and production designer for my film. The film has been given money for production developement by Filmkraft Rogaland and Vestnorsk Filmsenter. Even though we are in pre-production, this usually indicates strong interest in full financing the project. More and more talented and great people gets involved and I believe this will be a killer milestone of 2009. Read more about Black Milk in my blog www.egilpaulsen.com/blog/?cat=…

:bulletred: I was featured in Ilex Press’ new book Gothic Art Now with my two paintings Lost Circle sc0pe.deviantart.com/art/Lost-… and Masquerade sc0pe.deviantart.com/art/Masqu… (p.17). It is funny to have my earlier work published today because these are paintings I did when I was just a teenager :) Anyways, the book was nicely done and I felt well accompanied with artists such as Giger, Joachim Luetke and Erlend Mørk :)

:bulletred: Started on a potential Hell-series with a couple of concepts lurking around. As many artists tend to portray their inferno like a hot and horned place, I would go rather introvert and personal. We'll see what it turns out to be. The intro for the series could be concidered my latest painting, Omega sc0pe.deviantart.com/art/Omega…

I must admit my studies has taken a lot of my time this year. I am doing my last year on the bachelor degree of computer science and things got kinda busy. Everything went well this year though with grades and interesting projects. Actually one project worth mentioning was designing a prototype of a painter program specially made for people with no arms and legs. It worked :)

:bulletred: Mentioning studies, I've begun attending lifedrawing sessions every week and join café sketch crawling every sunday. So I actually draw more lines now comparing to 2007. In the army they say "Train hard, fight easy". I say "Practice hard, draw easy". My personal rule is however "Think hard, draw smart" :)

Goals for 2009:

:target: Solo exhibition (already mentioned the exhibition at a music festival, but..)

:target: Finish the short movie 'Black Milk'. Clean up some ideas and pitch some of my new film ideas.

:target: Apply for a master's programme in (probably) human computer interaction to complement my prime field of interest in computer science.

That was a lot of me-time. I wish you all now a happy new year and good luck with your great art.

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