Profession, Director: Arne Skouen and His Films

In this book Linn Ullmann discusses the prominent themes, ideas, and issues in Skouen’s films. She focuses, above all, on the way in which Skouen the filmmaker explores his own vision of solidarity and community. In Skouen’s films she finds a dream of the great community - a community that includes everyone, that shuts out no one. At the same time Skouen sows doubt that such a community is possible. He warns against over-confidence, warns against the danger of fighting for a vision if it comes at the expense of other people and what is human.