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**Director Eirik Tveiten Discusses Humour and Nudity in Cinema**
By Jes Gislason, November 26, 2025
Nordic Watchlist speaks with Director Eirik Tveiten about his short film Camping in Paradise
There are few things more essentially Nordic than nature, saunas, and the ability to find humour in uncomfortable situations. Eirik Tveiten captures this perfectly in his award-winning short film, Camping in Paradise. The film, which sees an unsuspecting couple stumble into a nudist community, manages to be both laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly tender.
But how do you handle sound recording in a room full of naked people? And how do you prepare actors for a nude shoot without an intimacy coordinator? We caught up with Eirik to discuss the practical realities of the shoot, his own “research” trips to nudist camps, and why he refused to give up on this script despite a decade of rejections.
Nordic Watchlist: Hello Eirik, thank you for joining today. I watched your short film Camping in Paradise, and it’s a lot of fun. Congratulations on it.
Eirik Tveiten: Thank you so much!
Nordic Watchlist: It made me almost homesick in a way, the whole sauna, loving nature, hygge, Þetta Reddast, scandi vibe.
Eirik Tveiten: That’s nice, I enjoy Icelandic films very much, so I think we have a lot in common.
Nordic Watchlist: Talking about all things scandi, and before we dive deeper into your short film, what is your favorite Sauna moment?
Eirik Tveiten: I haven’t been in a sauna for a very long time. I think I really enjoyed it when we were shooting in that particular sauna for Camping in Paradise.
That’s what comes first to mind. It was challenging, production-wise, to shoot in a sauna. First, we didn’t have a sauna, so we had to find one in close proximity. The sauna in the film is not in the camping area in real life, it’s actually very far away. We shot the sauna scene on the last day, close to the locations in the last two scenes of the film, the shop and the road. And it was not a very big sauna, so it was pretty crowded.
Nordic Watchlist: Getting the actors and the film crew in there must have been challenging?
Eirik Tveiten: Yeah, it was. Well, actually, we (the crew) had to be on the outside, but with that, our sound recorder had to really set up there. He’s a very good sound recorder, so he made sure that we got good sound in there. But you know, when you have naked people, you can’t really put the mics on them like you usually do in films. Sometimes we could put mics in their hair, but some of them didn’t have hair so…
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https://nordicwatchlist.com/2025/11/26/eirik-tveiten/
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**Director Eirik Tveiten Discusses Humour and Nudity in Cinema**
By Jes Gislason, November 26, 2025
Nordic Watchlist speaks with Director Eirik Tveiten about his short film Camping in Paradise
There are few things more essentially Nordic than nature, saunas, and the ability to find humour in uncomfortable situations. Eirik Tveiten captures this perfectly in his award-winning short film, Camping in Paradise. The film, which sees an unsuspecting couple stumble into a nudist community, manages to be both laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly tender.
But how do you handle sound recording in a room full of naked people? And how do you prepare actors for a nude shoot without an intimacy coordinator? We caught up with Eirik to discuss the practical realities of the shoot, his own “research” trips to nudist camps, and why he refused to give up on this script despite a decade of rejections.
Nordic Watchlist: Hello Eirik, thank you for joining today. I watched your short film Camping in Paradise, and it’s a lot of fun. Congratulations on it.
Eirik Tveiten: Thank you so much!
Nordic Watchlist: It made me almost homesick in a way, the whole sauna, loving nature, hygge, Þetta Reddast, scandi vibe.
Eirik Tveiten: That’s nice, I enjoy Icelandic films very much, so I think we have a lot in common.
Nordic Watchlist: Talking about all things scandi, and before we dive deeper into your short film, what is your favorite Sauna moment?
Eirik Tveiten: I haven’t been in a sauna for a very long time. I think I really enjoyed it when we were shooting in that particular sauna for Camping in Paradise.
That’s what comes first to mind. It was challenging, production-wise, to shoot in a sauna. First, we didn’t have a sauna, so we had to find one in close proximity. The sauna in the film is not in the camping area in real life, it’s actually very far away. We shot the sauna scene on the last day, close to the locations in the last two scenes of the film, the shop and the road. And it was not a very big sauna, so it was pretty crowded.
Nordic Watchlist: Getting the actors and the film crew in there must have been challenging?
Eirik Tveiten: Yeah, it was. Well, actually, we (the crew) had to be on the outside, but with that, our sound recorder had to really set up there. He’s a very good sound recorder, so he made sure that we got good sound in there. But you know, when you have naked people, you can’t really put the mics on them like you usually do in films. Sometimes we could put mics in their hair, but some of them didn’t have hair so…
Continue to the source:
https://nordicwatchlist.com/2025/11/26/eirik-tveiten/
#Nudity2025 #FKK #Freikörperkultur #Naturism #Nudism #Nudity #Nudist #ProudNudist #GetNakedGermany #Bodyfreedom #TeamNaturist #NaturistSymbol #IamTheFaceOfNaturism #NormalisingNaturism #HikeNaked #Nacktwandern #NaturismusNeuErleben #EinfachMachen #ClothingOptional #BeBareBeProud #Mastodon #BodyAcceptance #Nacktbaden #Skinnydip #BodyPositive #Diversity #TopFreedom #FreeTheNipple #ClothesFree #ClothesFreeLife
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