This is a collection of the most recent projects in film and theatre, where Øyunn has been engaged as an actor, composer and/or performer.
2024 Armand
Poster from Armand. Cinematography by Pål Ulvik Rokseth
Øyunn: Actor
Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. Director: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel.
2024 Den Lille Ring at Copenhagen Opera Festival
Øyunn: Actor (Brünnhilde)
Workshop Copenhagen Opera Festival, Der Ring des Nibelungen by Wagner - re-work for kids.
Director Mia Lipschitz
2022 Hvidstengruppen II - De Efterladte
Øyunn: Actor
De Efterladte follows Tulle Fiil and her sister Gerda Fiil during WW2, who are sentenced to the horrors of German prison.
2021 + 2023 “Tour de Chambre” at The Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, DK
Photo: Camilla Winther
Øyunn: Actor + music score + live music performance
Play by Tine Høeg. Director Sigrid Strøm Reibo.
feat Anna Bruus Christensen, Jakob Femerling Andersen/Mathias Rahbæk, Fanny Louise Bernth, Karen-Lise Mynster/ Hanne Windfeld, Mikkel Becker Hilgart, Øyunn
2021 “Deeply Rooted” at Dansens Hus
Composers, drummers & performers : Øyunn & Anders Vestergaard
Dancers & performers: Charlott Madeleine Utzig, Madeleine Fairminer
Show by choreographer Yaniv Cohen.
Premiering June 4th 2021 at Dansens Hus (Oslo, NO)
Distortion Bi83 by Eliott Becheau
Øyunn: actor
Short by french director Eliott Becheau, in post production. Øyunn and Andreas Dittmer in the main roles. DOP Jonas Skovbjerg Fogh
2019 Gine Cornelia Pedersen & Øyunn “Det er i Eden en deilig elv av flytende mild perlemor”
Øyunn: composer, actor, live music
Duo performance created and performed by Gine Cornelia Pedersen (Unge Lovende) and Øyunn, “Det er i Eden en deilig elv av flytende mild perlemor”. With excerpts from William Blakes: Milton, a poem, re-created by Geir Uthaug.
The concert performance, premiered at Café Uro in Tønsberg in the fall of 2019, and featured Gine and Øyunn as actors and musicians, embarking on a musical-epic journey.
Peer Gynt at Gålå
Photo: Bård Gundersen
Øyunn: Music arranger, musician and performer
Director: Marit Moum Aune
2019 Wimbledon (short movie)
Øyunn: Music score
Director Ernst de Geer
Producer Lotte Sandbu / Barbosa Film
Premieres at BIFF (Bergen International Film festival) on Sept 28th
2018 Begjær Under Almene at The National Theatre in Oslo
Photo: Erika Hebbert
Øyunn: Composer, live drums, synths, vocals and performer
Director: Victoria Meirik.
Cast: Marian Saastad Ottesen, Øystein Røger, Henrik Rafaelsen, Erland Bakker, Ravdeep Singh Bajwa, Øyunn
“The composer and musician Siv Øyunn Kjenstad treats her diverse percussion, her piano and her breathing voice with a suggestive effect. It is her role to give this piece live emotions, and she does it with brilliance.
The music is the big plus here. ”
EMOLATOR at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Øyunn Photo by Stephen Hutton
Ingrid Giæver, Sunniva DuMond Nordal, Sacha Slengesol Balgobin. Photo by Stephen Hutton
Øyunn: Music score and performance
One hour dance and wordless theatre performance. Emolator is a result of an experiment where all emotions and personalities are allowed to their extremes, with percussion, voices and bodies as tools to express. Co-created with choreographer Kristin Ryg Helgebostad, lighting tech Norunn Standal, designer Matilda Karlström and third grade theatre students at Khio in Oslo.