The L.A. of Europe 2025
A young poet navigates his personal financial crisis
Run time: 18:40
Special thanks to: Johan Knutz Haavik, Tobias Hansen, 
Hanna Kučera, Daniel Larsen, Joachim Lorck-Schierning, 
Georg Thanner, Pia Wilma. 


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The L.A. of Europe was my graduation project and accompanying the movie was the following text:

What is poetry?! That big head of mine… Sometimes I shadow box all night! I pour more coffee into me and tell my reflected self don’t give me that crap; I spit at the puddle that is of oil, which you don't see too often anymore, but no rippling surface confirms this has happened; a stoic puddle of oil has bested me as many other adversaries no doubt will.

This is gas station cappuccino I mutter as I walk away wounded. There are fields all around me. I look back: big block letters spray painted on the backside of the car wash reads FUCK SCHOOL. “How about F yourself or I shadow box School” I shadowbox, all the way home.

In bed I read The House of Hunger: 
    “The man, astonished, and perhaps a little angry, demanded: “what crutch?”
    “And the dwarf, spitting again at the skulking chameleon, said: “why, your mind”. 
    ‘And with that they parted’
Is a paragraph that I read-