Torstein Blixfjord

Torstein Blixfjord is a Norwegian artist who works with film, performance, poetry and photography. He began directing theatre in 1990 with a series of adaptations of plays by Strindberg and Ibsen, to whose work Blixfjord has often returned. Following these productions, he went on to work with multimedia, and later to direct film in 2000. He is best known as a film director and producer.

As Film Director + 2014 Darwish: A Soldier Dreams Of White Lilies, a final performance by Mahmoud Darwish 2012 Bird in a Box 2009 id - Identity of the Soul at the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar 2008 Christmas Eve, a film based on Henrik Wergeland's poem of the same name for the opening of the Wergeland Year

Multimedia Work + 2008 id - Identity of the Soul and music by Briggan Krauss 1996 Telefonterroristen - Radiodrama 1994 Shalom-Salaam Peace Concert in Oslo Spektrum 1994 Terje Vigen by Henrik Ibsen at the National Theatre (Director of Multimedia)

As Theatre Director + 1993 The Evangelic Poets at the Agder Theatre 1992 Easter by August Strindberg at the Black Box Theatre 1991 The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen at Northwestern University Theatre 1991 The Vikings at Helgeland by Henrik Ibsen at Tyrili Teatret, Oslo 1990 Mother Love by August Strindberg at Northwestern University Theatre

Producer In 2012 Blixfjord produced Jorgen Friband's feature documentary Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth, which premiered in Norway on 14 April 2012, and will be released in the UK later this year.

In 2004 Blixfjord was Executive Producer of Brixton Stories - a series of short films that featured the London borough of Brixton. Brixton Stories was produced by Arts Alliance and Insight News Television.