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FILMFORM in collaboration with The Video Art Festival Gävle presents:
When: 7th may at 3pm (Gävle) and 10th may at 4pm (Stockholm).
Where: Gävle: Furusalen Silvanum and in Stockholm at The Cinema Sture, Birger Jarlsgatan 41.

Programme:
J Tobias Anderson - Delusion Disillusion
2008, 3:33 min, stereo, b/w, 4:3, DV
A dark forest, a never-ending road and two men with differing ideas on how to approach a problem. The outline of “Delusion Disillusion” is quite simple, but the possibilities of interpretation are more complex. Are the men referring to a matter of personal character, or are they speaking of something far more general?

J Tobias Anderson was born in 1971 and grew up on Gotland in the Baltic Sea. He attended the University College of Arts, Crafts & Design and the Royal College of Art, both in Stockholm. He lives in Nacka just outside of Stockholm. Working mainly with video and animation Anderson moves between narrative and non-narrative works and through the years he has created almost 40 films. He has also experimented with different forms of music and sound installations. Notable exhibitions include P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York, Kunst-Werke Berlin, CaixaForum in Barcelona and Museo de Colecciones ICO in Madrid, as well as solo exhibitions at MMC Luka in Pula Croatia, ak28 in Stockholm and Uppsala Art Museum in Sweden. He is collaborating with Espaivisor in Valencia, Spain.

Wenche Tankred - The Barn
2005, 3:36 min, stereo, 4:3, DV
“The Barn” is a visual sound work influenced by the artist's childhood.

Born 1951, lives and works in Stockholm. Wenche Tankred works with video, sound, painting and performance. In 2007 she formed the performance duo WOL with Lovisa Johansson.

Tove Kjellmark - Men jag då?
2006, 14:28 min, stereo, b/w, 4:3, DV
I found an old tape, recorded by chance in my mother’s kitchen in the 80s. The film “Men jag då?” takes us into an authentic family situation in a state of emotional decomposition. We follow the unfolding, escalating drama with talk of blunt scissors; left-handed; little; sharp; orange; large scissors and kitchen scissors. But no one can find the scissors, except the mother who says, 'I can see the scissors but I won’t tell where they are'. “Men jag då?” attempts to raise many questions; what is that actually constitutes and forms a person; where are the boundaries between what we see and what we know; what affects how we react; can we create our own set of rules or are we products of our environment and the conditions that we live in?

Born 1977 in Stockholm. Tove Kjellmark will graduate in spring 2009 from the Royal University College of Fine Art’s Master programme in Fine Arts. In her work she explores the contradictory elements of human existence and focuses on the interplay between subject and object. She uses conflicts between feelings and the intellect to approach human pain thresholds and psychological defence mechanisms.

Cecilia Lundqvist - Oh, I´m so happy
2008, 3:07 min, stereo, b/w, 4:3, DV
"Oh, I'm So Happy" is an animated video where we meet a middle-aged woman living in total isolation, resulting in a condition of extreme loneliness. Performing a monologue she tries her best to convince us how happy and content she is with her present situation. However, her capacity for escapism appears completely shallow and transparent.

Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden, currently lives and works in Stockholm. Originally a construction engineer, Lundqvist changed career in 1991 to pursue Fine Art. She has worked almost exclusively with video since 1994, specializing in animation. Her films, generally of a narrative nature which deal with issues such as domestic violence, power structures and human behaviour have been screened at numerous museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. She is also represented at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Educated at Royal College of Art, Video Department and University College of Arts, Crafts & Design, Art Department, Stockholm.

Stina Wirfelt - The Village Wash
2006, 3:30 min, stereo, colour, 4:3, DV
The “Village Wash” is set in a laundrette in Chicago and investigates the space and time that make up the mundane action of waiting for one's laundry. A TV is showing the film Earthquake (Robson 1974) and just as everything starts trembling on the screen, the washing machines start their spin-cycle which causes the plants on top of them to shake. The film plays with the boundary of coincidental events and highly choreographed set-ups.

Stina Wirfelt was born in Gothenburg in 1980 and grew up outside Nässjö. She received her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2007 and is currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. In her videos and photographs she often constructs scenarios by assembling details from a variety of sources such as Hollywood movies and commercial radio. Several works document events unfolding over time periods.

Saskia Holmkvist - In Character
2008, 9 min, stereo, colour, 16:9, HD transferred to DV
“In Character” takes as its departure methodical similarities used in interview techniques by linking a job recruitment and a cross examination by police officers. To begin, the actors broach a central theme on its meta-level that forms part of the communication structures and strategies of the talks. By means of a fluent changing of roles within the individual conversations, the protagonists modify their strategies and positions, unexpectedly generating new interactions in the process. The work raises questions relating to the fine line between dialogue and the demonstration of power that may occur in both private and political contexts.

Born 1971, lives and works in Stockholm. Her work hovers between the language of fiction and documentary in an attempt to grasp the apparent reality presented to us. By looking at the construction of what we perceive as true, credible, authentic or entertaining, Saskia Holmkvist wants to investigate the constituent parts of what builds up trustworthiness. She directs herself towards the experience of the viewer and in many of her works one is invited to take a position. The role of the text plays a central position in her work as does her approach to dealing with the different characteristics of genres. This is clearest in the films “Interview with Saskia Holmkvist”, 2005 and “Eight Martini”, 2004.

Ylva Landoff Lindberg - Blue Eye Red Light
2007, 11:20 min, stereo, colour, 16:9, HD transferred to DV
- If you don't visit prostitutes you're not a real artist!
What do you do when you realize that your friends' actions contradict your most fundamental moral values, can you still be friends? “Blue Eye Red Light” is based on interviews recorded in Hanoi, Vietnam, during the autumn of 2006. Three students from Hanoi University of Fine Arts talk about how it is to live in a society where visiting prostitutes is regarded as a normal part of social life.

Born 1981, lives and works in Stockholm and Vietnam. Ylva Landoff Lindberg received her MFA from Umeå Konsthögskola, Sweden in 2007 and has taken part in several group shows, solo exhibitions and film festivals. Most of my works connect to Vietnam. It is a very exciting country where many things are happening right now, not least in the art world. I was a student at Hanoi Fine Arts Academy 2004-2005, where I also learned Vietnamese. Hanoi has become a place I always long for and return to. But it's not uncomplicated feelings that keep me coming back, rather it's the complexity that attracts me.


Petra Lindholm - Wish Away
2008, 9:50 min, stereo, colour, 16:9, HD transferred to DV
The film “Wish Away” takes place around a lighthouse on a bleak island located between Sweden and Finland. Lindholm cites the book ”Moominpappa at Sea” by the Finnish author Tove Jansson and the recent environmental destruction reports on the condition of the Baltic Sea as sources of inspiration for the film. 'It was an overcast, entirely standstill day. The water surface rose imperceptibly in long swells with the eastern wind, it was as grey as heaven and looked like silk. Just above the surface a couple of eiders flew by, they were fast and clearly out on their own business. Then everything was calm again…'.
From the book ”Moominpappa at Sea” by Tove Jansson, Alfabeta, 1965. The soundtrack includes pieces from Bach performed by Valentin Eichler on alto viola and music composed and performed by the artist.

Born 1973 in Karis, Finland. Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. Petra Lindholm works mainly with video. Her films do not often have a specific narrative structure, rather they focus on nuances and changes in colour and image which create a tense atmosphere as opposed to a clear-cut story. Lindholm often depicts easily recognizable situations or phenomena in the environment, where the real and ordinary seem unreal. She often composes and performs the music for her films herself.

Total running time, approx. 60 minutes
Programme selection by Anna Linder, Filmform.