Multimedia
Releases:
ABOUT MY GRANDFATHER
Orchestral music (CD Audio)
SEASONS OF LIFE
Chamber music (CD Audio)
PICTURES BEFORE AN EXHIBITION
Electroacoustic (CD Audio)
STILLE, STILLE
Songs (CD Audio)
MONTAGNA CON FORZA
Movie (DVD)
A SYMBIOPHONY MAKING
Movie (DVD)
MULTIMEDIA SPECIAL OFFER
Collected recordings (CD Audio)
FLUTE MYSTERY
Classical (Hybrid SACD & CD + Audio Blu-ray)
Campaign: MONTAGNA CON FORZA, FLUTE MYSTERY & SEASONS OF LIFE
Classical (DVD, Blu-ray, SACD (CD))
VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA
Movie (HD SR, DCP, Blu-ray, DVD, Quicktime, Flash etc.)
Nature is constantly present | Music perpetually sounds from beyond the mountains
Humankind arises from earth while Music is directing the cycle of life | Nature is the impartial arena
What happens when Humankind cannot relate to this unified energy of Nature and Music?
Foreign Titles: English: NEAR THE MOUNTAINS | Norwegian: NÆR FJELLET
Vicino alla Montagna - Production trailer (2006).
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Awards, Screenings & Reviews
Park City Film Music Festival, Utah, USA, May 26, 2011
Park City Film Music Festival, Utah, USA, May 26, 2011, screening & winner:Jury Choice - Gold Medal for Musical Excellence in a Performance/Expermental Film for the film Vicino alla Montagna. Composer Fred Jonny Berg / Director Fred Jonny Berg.
(...) This is a massively beautiful work encased in less than an hour. The instrumental music by Fred Jonny Berg is the centerpiece and framework of the film. Artistic nudity prevails in one section, Stunning scenery is captured throughout (...) (From the festival program).
American International Film Festival, February 2011, winner:
Best director, composer and photographer.
International Filmmaker Festival 2011, Official selection category "Best Music Film"
Movie soundtracks (from the album FLUTE MYSTERY) nominated for a Grammy 2010
In this movie, the soundtracks are from the releases SEASONS OF LIFE & FLUTE MYSTERY
"Fred Jonny Berg is a major musical discovery. It would be necessary to rewind to the 1940s and Malcolm Arnold to find an emerging composer of such exceeding promise. His compositions are confidently tonal, fluently melodious and possessed of virtually supernatural penetrative power. The flute works receive achingly beautiful, indeed enchanting, performances from Emily Beynon and the Philharmonia under Vladimir Ashkenazy (Berg conducts the other pieces). This set is recommended for any collector seeking the refined side of contemporary music." La Scena, Canada, 2009
" Vicino alla Montagna' doesn't only sound like a movie score, it actually is the music to a film with the same title. Again Berg paints whole landscapes with his music; in this case we are taken to the mountains. I have not seen the movie, but I imagine his intent was not merely to describe a beautiful mountain view, but to show us a powerful panorama that reminds us of how little influence we can take over nature. A remarkable composition." Blu-rayDefinition.com, 2009
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Credits
Director, script, music & editing: Fred Jonny Berg
Director of photography: Tomas Evjen
Executive producer: Symbiophonic AS
Producer & Copyright 20©10: Composer AS
Co-producer & Technical producer: News on Request AS
Cast: The Nature, The Music, Rebekka Nystabakk & Mona Solhaug
Soundtrack performed by Tom Ottar Andreassen, Håvard Daae Rognli, Wolfgang Plagge & Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Fred Jonny Berg
Other credits: See movie credits
Background information
Director's Statement
Synopsis
Trailer
Release information
Fred Jonny Berg - IMDb
Details - IMDb
Demo Reel - IMDb (please choose "720p HD" for optimal performance)
Age limit: Open for all (general certificate from the Norwegian Media Authority)
Screening format: HDCAM SR TAPE, DCP, Blu-ray, DVD - 16:9, 5.1 surround sound or 2.0 stereo
Pre-premiere November 12, 2009, 4 PM at Curzon Soho Cinema, London, England, with invited guests
Fred Jonny Berg: Director, Manager, Print Return, Print Shipper
The film music soundtrack performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra is from the album FLUTE MYSTERY.
This album was GRAMMY nominated in the category Best Surround Sound Album 2010.
Listen to a full time version of "Pastorale" - scene 7 from VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA
Listen to a music playlist from VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA
"Fred Jonny Berg as pictorial artist is also abundantly present in his music – Vicino alla Montagna Op.58b is music to a film with the same title. Berg paints landscape panoramas with a steady, sure hand. And, from his point of view as a film maker, he seeks long lines in the artistic discourse – like Richard Strauss in his Alpensinfonie he uses the entire expressive register of the orchestra to describe the magnificent peaks in all their inward and outward facets. Unlike Strauss, however, Berg's portrayal is darker and more stringent: we are certainly not in the Alps, rather in the weatherbeaten mountains of northern Norway where nature, not man, decides."
"The film music Vicino alla Montagna is a dark rendering of Nordic mountaineers at the mercy of mother nature and only brightened up with a good-humored interlude."
6moons, 2010
Soundtrack Grammy nominated
Reease Page
Film clubs, education or science
For a small rental fee, you can contact Composer AS (Ltd.) to rent VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA for different purposes. High quality Blu-ray or DVD master copies with sound options 5.1. surround or 2.0 stereo are available for rental.
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Reviews
In this movie, the soundtracks are from the releases SEASONS OF LIFE & FLUTE MYSTERY
"Fred Jonny Berg is a major musical discovery. It would be necessary to rewind to the 1940s and Malcolm Arnold to find an emerging composer of such exceeding promise. His compositions are confidently tonal, fluently melodious and possessed of virtually supernatural penetrative power. The flute works receive achingly beautiful, indeed enchanting, performances from Emily Beynon and the Philharmonia under Vladimir Ashkenazy (Berg conducts the other pieces). This set is recommended for any collector seeking the refined side of contemporary music."
La Scena, Canada, November, 2009
Read reviews of the movie soundtracks
The movie is a High Definition (HD)-production, and the pictures are shot in and around the mountains in Saltdal, Norway - hence the title VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA ("NEAR THE MOUNTAINS").
Press releases
Press release #2 30.10.2009 *.doc (Word)
Press release #2 30.10.2009 HTML-version
Press release #1 Summer 2009
Press photos
VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA - POSTER
VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA - Film Grab 1
VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA - Film Grab 2
VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA - Film Grab 3
VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA - Film Grab 4 Rebekka Nystabakk (actor)
VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA - Film Crew
VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA - Fred Jonny Berg (director)
Photo credits for all film shots:
Photo: Tomas Evjen, News on Request AS
Photo credits for photo of Fred Jonny Berg:
Photo: News on Request AS
WARNING
Non-authorized use of the photos, trailer, posters, movie content or other material from VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA without mentioning of the film - or the film's plot - is strictly prohibited and may be prosecuted. Further inquiries: fjb@fjbcomposer.com
VICINO ALLA MONTAGNA Copyright 20©11 Composer AS
Musique de film et de l'art par le compositeur Fred Jonny Berg. Nous nous réunissons deux êtres humains que la nature rencontre non protégés et nu - et peu à peu apprendre à vivre en elle.
