About the ghosts around us and the ghosts within us. Eco-fascism, eugenics, self-harm, deafening hard rock music, scraped knees, and cuts. Twenty years ago, in Norway, as in most other countries, extremism in its various forms intermingled with subcultures that offered liberation. We all grew up through debauchery, blood, and ideological radicalism.

Norwegian filmmaker Rude Halvorsen’s video-art-style documentary portrait looks into the eyes of the young generation in Norway in the 2000s and their interest in subcultures. As a child, he was into aggressive music and skateboarding and, in his words, “came close to danger or even destructive behaviour”. The theme of haunting, which he has successfully mastered in the film, can be explained metaphorically: it is a reminder of the past, of lost identities, of letting go of pain and the things that you no longer are when you grow up.