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HOUSE OF FURIES is an institutional ghost story that takes its starting point in an unemployment centre in Copenhagen that recently went bankrupt. The empty basement premises have now been taken over by local departments of American test centres, where people can document their work skills to possible future employers. One hundred years ago, the same building was a workhouse, where the poor worked in exchange for board and lodging. In this mausoleum of idleness, a clairvoyant man wanders around and establishes an occult contact to the dreams and sufferings of the past, while a restless 16mm camera scans the empty corridors as if it was trying to map the tragic inner architecture of emptiness. Plastic plants, old ring binders and outdated Xerox machines are accompanied by the voices of the former job consultants who are now themselves unemployed. The film traces the historical connections between three different institutions for unemployment across the past hundred years, which still haunt the same historical building in the middle of Copenhagen. By drawing these connections, the film seeks to investigate - and lay bare - how our culture has dealt with unemployment and precarious working conditions across the past century.

Pernille Lystlund Matzen (b. 1986) and Nanna Rebekka (b. 1989) is a directing duo based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their work concentrates on new documentary forms, video art and essayistic modes of filmmaking. In their collaborative, research-based practice, they seek to examine and unfold the untold stories that lie hidden in the monuments, buildings and material objects that surround us in our everyday life.