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Axel Petersén

close to god / far from home

Documentaire | dv | couleur | 11:7 | Suède, Palestine | 2009

Close to God / Far from Home (Somewhere in between pop and classical) is a portrait of a place and a state, stuck in between and surrounded by barriers. Close to God / Far from Home is High Class Salon and it?s owner; Palestine`s loneliest lover Tony, hair-dresser and choir-boy. Mr Tony is a proud decendant of Italian 13th century cruisaders and a natural born Germanophile. Mr Tony is also the sexiest man in Bethlehem, forever faithful to Jesus Christ, Richard Clayderman and Kaiser Franz Joseph to whom he built a temple, an altar, a home.

Axel Petersén is a visual artist born in Sweden 1979. He was educated in film at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts i Prauge and in fine arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Axel Petersén makes videos, video-installations, still and moving image portraits and block buster movies for the cinema. Axel Petersén works with both ?fiction? and ?documentary?, usually merging the two in to a form were he can take on an active part, and by doing so, being able to push the scenes in the right, or the wrong direction. Right now he?s working on a feature length fiction film; After Eigh, a thrillerish manifestation to the grown-ups that never grew up.