''A Year Along the Abandoned Road'' ( no, Året gjennom Børfjord) is a

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shot over a period of 105 days in 1988/1989 and released in

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. Directed by Morten Skallerud, the film was shot in

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( 65 mm negative) and shows a whole year passing by in Børfjord in

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, Norway, at 50,000 times the normal speed in just 12 minutes. The camera was moved slightly each day, and so the film gives the viewer the impression of seamlessly travelling around the

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as the year goes along, each day compressed into a few seconds. The film which premiered at the Kortfilmfestivalen

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in June 1991, has been screened at over 300

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s throughout the world and won 12 different awards, among which the Norwegian Amandaprisen for best short film in 1991, and the Grand Prix at the

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in 1992. The film is traditionally the opening movie of the annual 70 mm film festival held at the Cinemateket film club in

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. In 2002 director Jesper Hiro used footage from the film in a-ha's "

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" music video.

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