Ikea Art Movie

[Amadeus]

Guy Ben-Ner: Stealing Beauty

 

Portraying himself, his wife and his two children, Stealing Beauty is reminiscent of a family sit-com, but was shot in various IKEA showrooms located in 3 different countries. The prototype rooms within the Ikea stores provided the film sets of a family house within which the Ben-Ner family attempt to teach their youngest son about the meaning of ownership when he comes home from school with a note indicating he was caught stealing money from a peer....

 

......Taking Ikea’s request that visitors to the store ‘feel at home’ literally, Ben-Ner and his family occupy the domestic spaces as though they were their own.........

 

.....Because Ben-Ner did not ask permission to film in the various Ikea stores, the film was shot in secrecy, silently, like an act of theft.

 

 

Can't find the whole thing online, but here's a few minutes of it from a German online mag:

 

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/b...bctid1333257910