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Filmform Honorary Award
Since 1995, Filmform has presented an annual honorary award to video artists
or filmmakers. The prize of 10 000 skr goes to a person who has distinguished him or herself in the domain of experimental film and video art. This is the only
award of its kind in Sweden.

List of former holders of the award below.

2006 Mats Hjelm
Mats Hjelm has received Filmform’s Honorary Award for his elaborate
documentary video works, which deals with important issues with great
thoughtfulness. Hjelm began working with pictorial art in the 90’s and today
he focuses mainly on video. Crucial to Hjelm’s production is the trilogy
“White Flight” (1997), “Man to Man”(2000) and “Kap Atlantis)(2002). In the
trilogy Hjelm uses his own filmed material as well as his father’s, the
documentary filmmaker Lars Hjelm, who filmed the racial riots in Detroit
1968. Decisive political events in history and condensed lyrical pictures
combined with biographical images testify of power structures and
simultaneously function as a confrontation and reconciliation with the often
absent father. In a non-chronological, cyclical collage form, the different
dimensions create a complex and unified structure. A few examples are:
“Deliverance” (2005), exhibited at The Museum of National Antiquities and
“Father’s day at the Shrine of the Black Madonna” (2006), recently exhibited
at The Museum of Modern Art” and also included in Filmform’s distribution
project “Hit the North”.

The Board of Filmform Foundation: Åsa Lipka Falck, Richard Julin, Bo
Madestrand, Magdalena Malm, Henrik Orrje, Gunnel Pettersson, Anne-Marie
Söhrman Fermelin and chairman Claes Söderquist.

2004 Cecilia Lundqvist
Cecilia Lundqvist receives Filmform’s Honorary Award (2004) because of the
focused way she has developed her artistry. Cecilia started out with
painting, but now works foremost with video and animation. She manages to
treat difficult subjects, often from a personal, feminist perspective with a
sharp sense of humour. Her artistic expression stretches from the play with
simplified, raw lines, in Disco for instance from 1997, to the use of the
animation media in a more sophisticated way, as in Emblem from 2001.
Cecilia’s video works are shown frequently worldwide and has received
recognition in the art and film world alike.

The Board of Filmform Foundation: Åsa Lipka Falck, Richard Julin, Bo
Madestrand, Magdalena Malm, Henrik Orrje, Gunnel Pettersson, Anne-Marie
Söhrman Fermelin and chairman Claes Söderquist.

2003 Kjartan Slettemark
Kjartan Slettemark receives Filmform Foundation’s Honorary Award for his
idiosyncratic, playful and pioneering work with film and video as artistic
act and provocation for more than three decades. Today his artistic practice
in film and video has a self-evident place in art history and a very strong
position in contemporary art’s flow of ideas and expressions.
From the press release:
Kjartan Slettermark is one of few artists in Sweden who has consistently
used film and video as an artistic expression. Kjartan Slettemark and Hans
Esselius’ experimental film Nixon Visions (1971) is a central work in
Swedish art history today. As early as 1967 and 1968 he made the films
Symfoni Realista 1-3, based on politically charged performances. During the
60´s and 70´s he made a many films, often filmed as from an aesthetic of the
moment, always present with his camera at performances and happenings. One
example of such a work is “Polisväxten” ( The Police Plant,1969). Kjartan
Slettemak moved on to video in the 80´s and is considered a pioneer in this
area. He was one of those who founded and ran the video workshop Video Nu
(Video Now) on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, a nursery for a whole generation
of artists in Sweden, who explored video as artistic expression during the
80’s. Today Kjartan Slettemark uses the most advanced form of video at
performances such as Digitalisman Performance (2001) for instance.

The Board of Filmform Foundation: Claes Söderquist, Richard Julin, Åsa Lipka
Falck, Bo Madestrand, Henrik Orrje, Rita Stetter, Gunnel Pettersson,
Magdalena Malm.

2002 Petra Lindholm
Filmform wishes to offer the prize to a young artist, who already during her
education showed that she had a strong language of her own and a wilful
expression.

The Board of Filmform Foundation: Richard Julin, Åsa Lipka Falck, Bo
Madestrand, Monica Nieckels, Henrik Orrje, Rita Stetter, Claes Söderquist.

2001 Ann-Sofi Sidén
Ann-Sofi Sidén receives the prize for her sharp, singular take on
contemporary society as it is reflected in her video works. Because she is
ahead of her time and with her detached eye creates closeness and burning
intimacy in the moving image.

The Board of Filmform Foundation: Richard Julin, Åsa Lipka Falck, Bo
Madestrand, Monica Nieckels, Henrik Orrje, Rita Stetter, Claes Söderquist.

1996 Olle Hedman and Gunvor Nelson
By chosing Olle Hedman and Gunvor Nelson as this year’s winners of the
Honorary Award, Filform Foundation wants to direct attention towards two
artists who have worked with experimental art film since the 60´s. Their
works have been shown on many festivals and museums during the years, in
Sweden and abroad. The moving image is more frequently used in art today and
their work has gained an historical significance as they have become
precursors in the field of video and computer art.

One of Olle Hedman’s first films was “A Semiotic Study” (1973-74). Since
then he has worked with an abstract course of events in images and sound
compositions, where rhythmical and visual displacements strongly affect the
viewer’s senses. His works are characterized by sense of images and graphic
precision.

Gunvor Nelson has previously been living in San Fransisco where she worked
as a filmmaker and taught film. She has, since the mid 60´s, in films such
as Take Off (1972), Red Shift (1983) and Light Years Expanding (1988) mixed
influences from painting, collage and poetry in a very personal way. Apart
from making film she also dedicates her time to painting and printmaking.

The Jury of Filmform Foundation: Antonie Frank, Hanserik Hjertén, Råland
Häggbom,
Lennart Johansson, Arne Lindgren, Monica Nieckels, Henrik Orrje, Claes
Söderquist

1995 Antonie Frank
Antonie Frank has worked with the video media as an artist for a long time.
She has participated in many exhibitions, performances and public
appearances in Sweden and abroad since the beginning of the 80´s. Antonie
freely uses the video media’s artistic possibilities in her work, inspired
by painting and dance for instance. She has a natural eye and sense for the
form of the electronic image and its sensual dynamics. Her latest work “She
is” from 1995 is an astounding example of this unusual and personal tone.

The jury of Filmform Foundation: Hanserik Hjertén, Lennart Johansson, Arne
Lindgren, Henrik Orrje, Claes Söderquist