At one point in “wall wall”, Chirag and Magdi stand at the edge of the cliff. The Festiviteten mansion in Skien, which they bought in 2018 and which will turn into a kind of performance hall, has become a money pit. They’ve put 110,000 concert tickets on sale, for a dozen sensational concerts at Oslo Spektrum in 2021, but still, Norway’s biggest music group is about to run out of money. Chirag looks extremely worried.
Magdi smiled.
And here I almost have to memorize his quote, so some of the words might be a little wrong, but the content is like this: Magdi smiles. He says: “Imagine that we then sold 110,000 tickets in September and went bankrupt in December.”
And then he bursts out laughing.
Chirag tears his hair out.
Friendship
As a documentary film, “wall wall” is a lot at once. When Karpe contacted production company Oslo Pictures and handed over several hundred hours of raw tape, filmed by Agri Soltan over two and a half years, they wanted a cool behind-the-scenes film about the construction of the Festiviteten performance house. Directors Tommy Gulliksen and Erik Treimann saw the material and believe they ended up making a documentary film about the very special and extremely conflicted friendship and artistic collaboration between Chirag and Magdi.
