Filmform (est. 1950) is dedicated to preservation, promotion and worldwide distribution of experimental film and video art. Constantly expanding, the distribution catalogue spans from 1924 to the present, including works by Sweden’s most prominent artists and filmmakers, available to rent for public screenings and exhibitions as well as for educational purposes.
Twerka för Jemen by Tanja Holm will be shown on March 12th at Scen Sundsvall in the programme that is focused around Swedish short films from 2023. The programme, which is organised in collaboration with Film Västernorrland, is curated by Helén Lindfors.
Baltic Art Center (BAC) is organising a programme “PEACE TALKS – Three evenings about and with the peace movement in Gotland”, which is dedicated to exploring peace work in a wider context and in a longer time perspective. The first evening is taking place on March 7th and will feature a screening of art videos with a peace theme. Among the films presented are also Act 1: An Idealistic Attempt and Act 2: Reconstruction of An Action That Never Took Place by Fia-Stina Sandlund. The programme is curated by Kalle Brolin.
SCHMEERGUNTZ by Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley will be screened as a part of the programme “This is Film!” on March 6th in the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. This programme explores the curatorial and historiographic thinking that informed the project “No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image,” an exhibition and cinema programme that originated at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2022. After the screening, there will be a conversation led by programme’s curator Aileen Ye and Q&A in collaboration with the Master students of the “This is Film!” class at the University of Amsterdam.
“When the Sun Goes Down” exhibition, that is taking place at Galleri CC from February 2nd – March 3rd, shows a selection of artworks where light and shadow act as resources and as silent co-narrators. On of the works that will be looped is Lisa Tan’s Sunsets, which serves as the main analogy for the exhibitions title that points to the spatiotemporal moment when the sunlight is about to disappear and be replaced by our concerns about its absence. Curator of the programme is Sara Rossling.
During Malin Wahlberg’s course “Images of Sweden 2” at the University of Stockholm there will be a screening that includes works by two artist from FILMFORM’s catalogue. Tova Mozard’s Psychic and Liselotte Wajstedt’s EADNI and The Girl Kiruna will be show on February 2nd. Coordinator of the programme is Jessica Ewerlöf.
Starting next week, a number of Filmform related activities will be taking place at the 2024 edition of International Filmfestival Rotterdam (IFFR).
We are excited to share that the film Isblink (2024) by Olga Krüssenberg, distributed by Filmform and produced by Sisyfos Film, will have its world premiere at IFFR in the Short & Mid-length section programme Finding Shelter. Representatives from Filmform and Sisyfos film together with Olga Krüssenberg and cinematographer Christine Leuhusen will be present at the premiere night at KINO 3 on Friday, 26th January, starting 8.30 PM. The programme is also scheduled for Saturday 27th January (2 PM at Lantaren Venster 6) and Friday 2nd February (12.30 PM at Cinerama 3).
World premiere! Finding Shelter
Friday, 26th January, 8.30, KINO 3
Together with our international colleagues within the distributor network DINAMO (Distribution Network of Artists’ Moving Image Organizations), Filmform will participate with two joint programmes.
The first one, a cinema screening and presentation, will be held at KINO 4 on Saturday 27th January starting 1.30 PM in the programme Disinformation. For this programme Filmforms presents the film Diagram of Transfer nr 1 (2018) by Lina Selander and Oscar Mangione. The programme will be introduced by Filmform’s Anna-Karin Larsson and Andreas Bertman.
In addition to the cinematic programme, a looped exhibition with works from the DINAMO group will be running at venues OX.space, Joey Ramone and de Doelen between 26th January – 3rd February, which includes Hang Ten Sunset (2000) by Katarina Löfström from Filmform.
DINAMO: Disinformation
Saturday 27th January, 1.30 PM, KINO 4
San Francisco Cinematheque presents the programme “I Hear a New World: Deconstructing the Musical”, a collection of works appraising, celebrating and at times critiquing the intoxicating spectacle of the filmed musical and dance film through gestures of appropriation, revision and citation. Among the works show on January 17th at 4 Star Theater in San Francisco, there will be a screening of Sunspots and Solar Flare by Maria Magnusson. The programme is curated by Steve Polta, Artistic Director at San Francisco Cinematheque.
Professor at Berlin University of the Arts Claudia Hummel is organising a screening ofAction Dialogue!/Aktivering Samtal! by Mats Eriksson Dunér during the seminar “Lernräume – architektonisch, künstlerisch, politisch und sozial”. The film will be shown on January 13th.