You might know the first part of the story about The Boy Who Will Never Leave Home. This is what’s told in the film illustrated above. The full story started in 1987 and continues up into the present day. It is divided into 4 chapters:

From 1987 until 2012, the boy lived on Bredegade in Frederiksberg with his mother. For 25 years, he lived in one and the same children's room. But in 2012, he moved away from home. From Frederiksberg to Vesterbro.

Boy.

Mother.

Children's room. 2012

Moving.

Boy.

Mother.

In the borough of Vesterbro, he rented a room, a totally green room. The room is video-monitored, and the moving image is transmitted ‘round the clock onto the walls of the old children's room at his mother’s home.

The green color disappears in front of the camera, with the result that everything in the green room comes to be invisible. The only thing that’s visible to the cameras is The Boy Who Will Never Leave Home. When the boy is home, inside the green room, he’s automatically home on the walls in the old children's room in Frederiksberg.

Green room.

Vesterbro. Frederiksberg.

Guest.

Children's room, after the move.

The Boy Who Will Never Leave Home

In 2013, the childhood home was opened to visitors so that the interested public could experience the apartment and see The Boy Who Will Never Leave Home on the walls in the children's room.

In the years pursuant to the move away from the childhood home to Vesterbro, there have been several moves made to other green spaces in Copenhagen, always with live-transmission onto the walls in the room at the mother’s home.

This continued until Kurt arrived. He came from Værløse and invited the mother to his home. She moved in.On December 1, 2015, she sold her apartment in Frederiksberg, after 30 years.

The new owners were not interested in having The Boy Who Will Never Leave Home living there anymore.

Now he’s pixelating some other place, on the Internet, between the green space and the children's room. Homeless.

Movements.

Ceremonial events.

Mother. Boy. 2014.

Mor. Kurt. 2015

Værløse.