Corridor

Johan Lundborg, born in 1977, and Johan Storm, born in 1978, examined from the Film School at Gothenburg University in 2003. Johan Lundborg has written, shot and edited a number of short films and made the award winning documentary Moving Adult Cats. His latest documentary, Roger Nilson's Enterprise, will be screened on Swedish Television Autumn 2010. He wrote and directed the thirty minute short Rosenhill (together with Johan Storm).Johan Storm has written about film in magazines and has worked as a high school teacher of film/tv/video. Just now he is making commercials and information films. Corridor is their first feature film. Corridor is a psychological thriller about a medical student Frank. Frank is a successful student with top results. He does not mix with the other students and is regarded as an outsider.We think Frank is very different from the leading male roles we are used to seeing. He is asexual, cowardly and definitely not macho. The challenge for us is to make the audience feel sympathy for such an odd character, to follow and understand his actions.We were both brought up by parents who are medics and have had some insight into that world. It attracts many dedicated and nice people, but there are those whose driving force is different. For them the patient is less interesting than the illness and they are often more interested in social status and financial rewards. Such people inspired us for the Frank character. (...)We are both very keen on visual storytelling without too many words. Frank's isolation makes us move in his world on his terms. What he sees, we see. What he hears, we hear. The sound in Isolerad is very important. Through sounds and silence and Frank's interpretation of them we become part of his subjective experience. Jukka Rintamäki's score is often more like sound effects than music.