NOBODY KNOWS CASPER

DIRECTOR / RENÉ ODGAARD - 2022 - 72 MIN

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BROADCASTER:

DR (Danish Broadcasting)

FESTIVALS:

CPH:DOX, 2022

Portland Film Festival, 2022

Liverpool Film Festival, 2022

DOC:London - AWARD Best feature documentary, 2022

Torino Underground Cinefest - AWARD Best editing, 2023

Obskuur Ghent Film Festival, 2023

Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, 2023

STORYLINE:

A young man from Odense becomes a YouTube star with the channel ‘Ask Casper’. But where does the (self-)ironic staging end, and who is the real Casper when the webcam is off?

In 2012, 20-year-old Casper Harding from Odense started his YouTube channel ‘Ask Casper’. For the occasion, he creates a simple-minded and emotionally confused character, whom viewers can ask all sorts of questions. At first it’s just for fun. But suddenly he has over a million views, then over 80 million, and then he’s in the regional news. He is recognised on the streets, attends awards ceremonies and is hired as a publicity figure by big companies. But slowly doubts arise as to where ‘Ask Casper’ ends and Casper Harding begins. And when he becomes a father in the middle of it all, he is forced to deal with his troubled relationship with his own father.

CREDITS:

Director: René Odgaard

Producer: Maria Helga Stürup

Photography: René Odgaard, Casper Harding, Thomas Korsholm, Anders Lindved

Editor: Andreas Bøggild Monies

Sound: Patrick Svaneberg Vejen, Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen

Composer: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen

B-editor: Martin Nygaard Friis Hansen

Editing supervisor: Anders Albjerg Kristiansen

Editor pre-production: Bobbie Esra G. Pertan, Wiebe van der Vliet, Steen Bech

Producer development: Maria Helga Stürup, Julie Leerskov, Julie Linn Milling, Kirstine Barfoed, Jesper Jack

Post-producton coordinator: Maria Robstad