Markus Öhrn (b. 1972) is a Swedish artist who works with video installations and performance. In his video installations, he often works with existing material, such as in the 49-hour, 13 minute-long film Magic Bullet that is a chronological montage of all the archived film scenes cut by Swedish film censors from 1911 to 2011. With the theatre groups Nya Rampen and Institutet, in his performances Markus Öhrn starkly explores the mechanisms of repression in a middle-class family. He does so with his very personal aesthetic: the actors perform in a closed box, while a live camera broadcasts the image to the audience and keeps the action at a distance. Markus Öhrn was invited to Avignon in 2012 with his first production Conte d’Amour , an exploration of the dark side of love based on the Fritzl case in Austria. At the Impulse theatre festival in 2011, Conte d’Amour won the award for best fringe theatre production and in 2012 it went to the Berliner Theatertreffen. For Theater Der Welt in Mannheim in 2014, Markus Öhrn is now creating his next performance, a black metal opera about a 13-year-old boy who rebels against the structures of his milieu. At this year’s Kunstenfestivaldesarts Markus Öhrn will be presenting his new project, the video installation Bergman in Uganda , filmed in the slums of Uganda’s capital, Kampala. Markus Öhrn lives and works in Berlin and in Niskanpää, a small village in northern Sweden.