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Jacques Derrida’s staring cat Logos, a bowing deer, domestic servants, a headstrong mare and the director’s 19 years younger boyfriend are some of the characters we meet in the essayfilm Dear Deer. The distanced and slightly voyeuristic documentary footage, mainly shot in Argentina and Japan, is accompanied by a voiceover in which asymmetrical relations, trans-species empathy, embarrassment and shame are discussed in a both investigative, descriptive and confessive manner.

Endre Aalrust (b. 1973) is a Norwegian artist and film maker who is based in Berlin. He studied at the University in Oslo and National Academy of fine Arts in Bergen.  Aalrust has shown films in film and video festivals such as Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2019), Norwegians Short Film Festival, Grimstad (2019), HOMOGRAFÍA Film Festival, Mexico City (2018), Nordic Filmfest, Rome, (2018),International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), (2016), Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Brazil (2016), Athens International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo (2016), Xposed International Film Festival, Berlin, (2016), Rencontres, Paris/Berlin/Madrid (2003/2011), Viper film and Videofestival, Kunsthalle Basel (2004) and European Media Festival, Osnabrück (2002).  Solo exhibitions include: Hund om Det, Bruksrommet, Stavanger, (2018) Freedom of Impression, Bærum Kunsthall, Oslo, (2018), Urc de Triomphe, Kunstbanken, Hamar, (2015), The Rise and Fall of Rise and Shine, Gallery Erik Steen, Oslo (2011), Free Lunch, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York (2010), Sofa So Good, Galerie Sandy Brown, Berlin (2009).