No artist in the world is more famous, and yet lesser known, than Edvard Munch. If his Scream has become an icon of our times, the rest of his output is not as famous. Now, however, Oslo, once called Kristiania, marks a turning point in our knowledge of the artist: the new Munch museum – which opened in October 2021 - is a spectacular skyscraper on the Norwegian capital's fjord, designed to house the immense legacy the artist left to his city: 28,000 works of art including paintings, prints, drawings, notebooks, sketches, photographs and his experiments with film. This extraordinary legacy gives us an exceptional insight into the mind, the passions and the art of this genius from the North.The documentary film Munch. Love, ghosts and lady vampires strives to shed new light on Edvard Munch, a profoundly mysterious, fascinating man, a trailblazer and a master for everyone who came after him. At the same time, it is also a journey through Munch's Norway, in search of the roots and identity of a universal artist, who invites us to question the main theme of his multifaceted work: his idea of Time. Munch wrote, "I do not paint what I see, but what I have seen." And indeed, he repeated his subjects, painting and repainting the same images and storing them in his studio, laying the foundations for producing Multiples. His personal concept of Time is reflected in a delicate, original balance between past and present, a tool for living one's existence, a bridge across the dimensions of the universe in order to make contact with the world of ghosts and spirits.
