COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
by Maren Dagny Juell
2026
15:55 min 4K
This film is currently installed in Oslo, at Kulturetatens Kunstcontainer by Sukkerbiten. You can also watch it here as long as it is up and running.
Credits:
Produced, written, directed and edited by Maren Dagny Juell
Actors:
Solheim: Sondre Krogtoft Larsen
Eidol: Samatha Lawson
Crew:
Director of Photography: Jørgen Wetaas Bull
B Photo: Aleksander Andreassen
Costume Design: Maïna Joner
Sound Technician: Hanne Treidene
Production Assistant: Hannah Kvamsdal
Postproduction, Graphics and sound: Maren Dagny Juell
Consulting Producer: Tonje Alice Madsen
Recorded at Vjus Studio, Oslo
Thanks to the generous advice and input from:
Fredrik Skavlan
Richard Cawte
Katharina Martina Østergaard
Sisse Lee
Funded by:
The Audio and Visual Fund, Arts Council Norway, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund
Community Guidelines is a 15-minute short film set in a near future where images are heavily censored and visual information is no longer considered trustworthy. In this society, a talk show serves as entertainment for a privileged population, and the film follows an interview between the host and the evening’s guest, a former content cleaner who once censored violent and traumatic imagery.
The guest describes the psychological consequences of her work and a strange phenomenon: abstract objects she dreams about begin to materialize in reality, affecting people emotionally despite being seemingly meaningless fragments. Throughout the interview, a growing sense of unease emerges—connected both to the guest’s concealed identity and the talk show’s surface-level lightness. The film invites doubt about whether the guest is even human at all, questioning empathy in a time when AI is increasingly taking over the task of filtering the world’s suffering.
The talk-show format acts as a familiar entry point into a dystopian scenario where spectacle overshadows humanity. Blending humor, vulnerability, and sci-fi elements, the film explores how technology shapes empathy, autonomy, and our ability to confront the pain of others.
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