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Screening with Kinoklub in Zagreb

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Kinoklub logo

Kinoklub is a croatian association, founded in 1928, that promotes amateur film-making. This month, the association welcomes Filmform for an exclusive screening on September 27th at 17h00 in KIC Zagreb. The program is curated by Tibor Đurđev, who interned at Filmform last spring.

Ottica zero

Ottica Zero, Maja Ray Borg, 2007

Program:

Works distributed by Filmform

Interbeing, Martina Hoogland Ivanow, 2018, 10:40 min
Enligt Lag, Peter Weiss & Hans Nordenström, 1957, 20 min
Ateljéinteriör/The studio of Dr Faust, Peter Weiss, 1956, 10 min
Ottica Zero, Maja Ray Borg, 2007, 13 min
Moons Pool, Gunvor Nelson, 1973, 15 min

The sun to me is dark at 25FPS

25FPS 2024 edition

25FPS 2024 edition

For its 20th edition, the Croatian festival 25FPS selected Lina Selander & Oscar Mangione’s The sun to me is dark for the official competition category. The film will be presented on September 26th at 18:00 at Kino Kinoteka in Zagreb.

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The sun to me is dark, Lina Selander & Oscar Mangione, 2024, 8 min

Filmform at September sessions

September Sessions 2024

September Sessions 2024

Filmform is once again part of September sessions, a contemporary art festival in Stockholm, for an open house dedicated to curators and scholars at Filmform. It will be from 09:30 to 17.00 on Friday, September 20th.

This open house will consists in an exclusive presentation of Filmform’s collection and resource for curating and learning. The organization as well as the distribution catalogue will be presented in detail and a few newly acquired works from the collection will be shown. The presentation is first and foremost intended for you who is working as a curator, writer, researcher, producer, programmer, scholar, or teacher.

Doors open at 9.30. The presentation will take place between 10–12 AM. Afterwards, between 1–5 PM there will be a chance for spontaneous drop in meetings at the office for those who can’t make it to the presentation. A light breakfast will be served.

Please RSVP to info@filmform.com in order to secure a seat and make a reservation to the presentation.

Experimental films from North to South

El Océano Análogo, Luis Macias, Mexico-Spain, 2022

El Océano Análogo, Luis Macias, Mexico-Spain, 2022

Please join us for a unique 16mm screening together with two European film labs, currently in Stockholm for a Nordic tour with several filmmakers present. On Tuesday, September 17th at Filmform.

The programme consists of films from two film collectives – Crater Lab (Barcelona) and Baltic Analog Lab (Riga). All the films are made by the members of those collectives who engage with analog film in a very personal and DIY approach. Shooting, hand processing and editing those films by themselves – many times using very structural and tactile approach to create poetic, immersive, turbulent and fluctuating effect on the viewer. Two of the members of both laboratories will be presenting the programme in person. The programe will start with recently deceased Swedish filmmaker Olle Hedman (1940–2022) and his film CocaStrip (1985).

PROGRAMME:

Coca Strip, Olle Hedman, Sweden, 1985, 16mm, sound, 6 min, (Filmform)

Autorretrato Post-Pandémico, Antonio Bértolo, Spain, 2020, digital projection, silent, 4:42 min (Crater-Lab)

El Océano Análogo, Luis Macias, Mexico-Spain, 2022, digital projection, sound, 10 min, (Crater-Lab + L´Abominable)
Cabanyal, Yago Alcover, Spain, 2020, digital projection, sound, 6 min (Crater-Lab)

Thanatophobia, Ieva Balode, Michael Higgins, Latvia/Ireland, 2022, digital projection, 11 min (Baltic Analog Lab)

?, Betija Zvejniece, Latvia, 2021, digital projection, 2:40 min, (Baltic Analog Lab)

lost fps // they come out in the dark, Sintija Andersone, Latvia, 2023, 16mm, 5 min (Baltic Analog Lab)

RAINBOW VISION SPECTRAL EXPRESS, Ieva Aleksa, Artūrs Lūriņš, Elīna Matvejeva, Sintija Andersone, Dāvis Gauja, Andrejs Strokins, Mersedes Margoit & Kei Sendak, Latvia / 2023, 16mm, 12 min (Baltic Analog Lab)

Total running time: (62 min plus intermission)

PLEASE NOTE:
The ticket price is 50 SEK. RSVP to info@filmform.com in order to book a ticket. After booking you will receive information about the different payment options and confirmation. First come, first served. Limited amount of seats.

Founded in 2016, Baltic Analog Lab is an artists collective and filmlab based in Riga, Latvia. Uniting filmmakers and photographers interested in analog film and photography, Baltic Analog Lab aims to produce, teach and inspire an audience by providing a space for creation, learning and teaching.
A high focus of the lab is education and collaboration; this is maintained by regular workshops led by BAL members and foreign guests, international summer schools, film screenings and expanded cinema events. The main curatorial event of the lab is the experimental film festival Process, which happens in Riga since 2017. As an active organization, BAL takes part in various international collaborations and project, one of which is SPECTRAL uniting 6 European filmlabs throughout year 2022.-2025. BAL is also part of Expanding North network and part of Filmlabs.org network uniting more than 50 analog film labs across the world.
The screening is organized in collaboration with Martin Grennberger and BAL’s Ieva Balode

Thanatophobia, Ieva Balode, Micheal Higgins, 2022

Jonas Mekas Poetry Day: filmvisning av Requiem (2019)

Jonas Mekas, Requiem (2019)

Jonas Mekas, Requiem (2019)

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Welcome to a screening and discussion about Jonas Mekas’ latest film Requiem (2019) at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus on Sunday, September 15, starting at 19.

The screening is part of Centre Pompidou’s worldwide Poetry Day initiative. Since 2020, the Pompidou has annually highlighted and celebrated the growing interest in poetry with its own day when a series of events take place simultaneously at the museum in Paris and other places in France as well as the rest of the world. Each year, the focus has been on a particularly influential and emblematic representative of poetry: John Giorno in 2020, Charles Baudelaire in 2021 and Patti Smith in 2022. This year, it is the turn of the Lithuanian-American filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas (1922-2019). After living as a refugee during the Second World War and then emigrating to the United States, Mekas became a leading figure in American avant-garde cinema. Both as a legendary film critic and as co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York in 1970. He continued to be an active, prolific artist throughout his life, completing his last film at the age of 96.

In Sweden, the screening is organized by Filmform in collaboration with Christian Rossipal and Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. The event is organized by Centre Pompidou. On the evening of September 15, Mekas’ last film Requiem (2019) will be presented, which was shown in connection with the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale in the spring. This is the first time that this work will be shown in Sweden. Requiem had its world premiere at The Shed art center in New York, a few months after Mekas’ death in 2019, and can be seen as a cinematic tribute to Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem (1874). Since its premiere, Requiem has been screened around the world, often accompanied by live music. Unlike the diary-like experimental films for which Mekas is best known, Requiem lacks his distinctive voice-over, which is replaced here by Verdi’s death mass. Like the music, the film moves between horror and solace, and can be seen as a contemplative depiction of the beauty and decay of nature.

Film program:

Jonas Mekas, Requiem, 2019, 84 min

The film is introduced by Christian Rossipal (curator and film researcher) and followed by a reading of excerpts from Jonas Mekas’ poetry, read by Elis Monteverde Burrau (author and poet)

Free entrance but please RSVP to info@filmform.com to secure a seat for the screening.

Doors open at 18.30. Film starts at 19.00

Thanks to Centre Pompidou, Christian Rossipal and Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus.

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Välkommen till filmvisning och samtal om Jonas Mekas sista film Requiem (2019) på Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus söndagen den 15 september med start kl 19.

Visningen sker inom Centre Pompidous världsomspännande satsning Poetry Day. Sedan 2020 har Pompidou årligen synliggjort och hyllat det allt växande intresset för poesi med en egen dag då en rad arrangemang sker samtidigt på museet i Paris och andra platser i Frankrike liksom resten av världen. Varje år har en särskilt inflytelserik och emblematisk företrädare för poesin stått i fokus. 2020 var det John Giorno, 2021 Charles Baudelaire och 2022 Patti Smith. I år har turen kommit till den amerikansk-litauiske filmskaparen och tillika poeten Jonas Mekas (1922–2019). Efter att ha levt som flykting under andra världskriget och därefter emigrerat till USA blev Mekas en förgrundsgestalt inom den amerikanska avantgarde-filmen. Både som legendarisk filmkritiker och som medgrundare av Anthology Film Archives i New York 1970. Han fortsatte att vara en aktiv, produktiv konstnär genom hela sitt liv och färdigställde sin sista film som 96-åring.

I Sverige arrangeras visningen av Filmform i samarbete med Christian Rossipal och Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. Arrangemanget sker på initiativ av Centre Pompidou. Under kvällen den 15 september presenteras Mekas sista film Requiem (2019) som under våren visades i anslutning till den 60:e upplagan av Venedigbiennalen. Det är första gången verket visas i Sverige. Requiem hade världspremiär på konstcentret The Shed i New York, några månader efter Mekas bortgång 2019 och kan ses som en filmisk hyllning till Giuseppe Verdis Messa da Requiem (1874). Sedan premiären har Requiem visats runt om i världen, ofta ackompanjerad av livemusik. Till skillnad från de dagboksliknande experimentfilmer Mekas gjort sig mest känd för så saknar Requiem hans distinkta voice-over, som här ersätts av Verdis dödsmässa. Filmen rör sig likt musiken mellan skräck och förtröstan och kan ses som en kontemplerande skildring av naturens skönhet och förfall.

 
Filmprogram:

Jonas Mekas, Requiem, 2019, 84 min 

Filmen inleds av Christian Rossipal (curator och filmforskare) och följs av en reading med utdrag av Jonas Mekas poesi, uppläst av Elis Monteverde Burrau (författare och poet)

Fri entré men OSA gärna till info@filmform.com för att säkra en plats till visningen. 

Dörrarna öppnas 18.30. Filmstart 19.00

 
Med tack till Centre Pompidou, Christian Rossipal och Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus.

Max Andersson’s films at Ystads seriefestival

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Ystads seriefestival logo

Rolf Classon selected 4 works from Max Andersson to screen at Ystads seriefestival. On September 7th, Ingen kommentar, Spik-Bebis, Varför är det så mycket svart, and Flat Dog Town will be shown, in the presence of Max Andersson.

spik-bebis

Spik-Bebis, Max Andersson, 1987

Programme
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The Artist’s Song at Kristianstads konsthall

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Kristianstads kontshall logo

Marika Reuterswärd will present Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen’s The Artist’s Song in a film program that celebrates the 10 years anniversary of Kristianstads konsthall, on September 4th.

Sylwan by Salad Hilowle and Isblink by Olga Krüssenberg at Katrineholms konsthall

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Sylwan by Salad Hilowle, curated by Gustav Person, will be looped at Katrineholms Konsthall between August 31st and September 14th. Salad Hilowle’s film revisit Astrid Lindgren’s famous story about Pippi Longstocking, to hint at an overlooked side of Swedish history. Isblink by Olga Krüssenberg will also be shown in this exhibition. The film, through sensitive and poetic images, depicts life on Svalbard.

isblink

Isblink, Olga Krüssenberg, 2024

Programme:
Works distributed by Filmform

Sylwan

Salad Hilowle

2022, 00:15:20

Pipeline at Nordnorsk kunstnersenter

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Nordnorsk kunstnersenter logo

Pipeline by Liv Strand will be looped in the exhibition LIAF 2024 SPARKS between 31th August to 21th September 2024 at Kinobox at Havneterminalen.

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Pipeline, Liv Strand, 2005

The 00’s are Trendy Now at “6100 Minutter” in Denmark

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Kunsthal 6100 logo

The 00’s are Trendy Now by Sara Sjölin will be presented by Marie Dufresne at the local culture festival “6100 Minutter” on the 29th of August 2024.

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The 00’s are Trendy Now, Sara Sjölin, 2022

Programme:
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Filmform program at Allmänna Sammankonst

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Röda Rosens logo

Röda Rosens Allmänna Sammankomst is a manifestation to bring about a temporary, open community garden and cultural space on the abandoned roof terraces of the subway building in Hornstull. An open-air cinema will show some works from Filmform’s catalog: Odjuret by Per Olof Grönstrand & Nils Olsén, Aktivering Samtal! by Mats Eriksson Dunér, and Park by Vanja Sandell Billström & Lucia Pagano. Program curated by Felicia Granath and Moa Forsberg Ardelius.

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Odjuret, Per Olof Grönstrand & Nils Olsén, 1953

Programme:
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Jan Lindqvist retrospective at Cinemateket

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This year Cinemateket’s program makes a focus on the filmography of Jan Lindqvist “- Med tiden som motiv och verktyg (With time as motive and tool)”. Several works will be shown in 6 screenings from August 21st to September 29th at Filmhuset. Between 1962 and 2014, Jan Lindqvist has depicted history, and he has done so with all the means of documentary film. In Lindqvist’s work, time is both a motif and a tool. He turns time against time, holds our gaze, gives us time to contemplate, intertwines past and present, and insists that the future is not yet written.

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Agripino, Jan Lindqvist, 1977

Wednesday August 21st:

Medevi brunn, 1962, Sweden, 23 min, copy from SVT.

Liten lantförsamling, 1964, Sweden, 20 min, copy from SVT.

Snutarna, 1966, Sweden, 23 min, copy from Filmform.

Förvandla Sverige, 1974, Sweden, 30 min, copy from Svenska Filminstitutet.

Saturday August 24th:

Dom kallar oss mods, 1968, Sweden, 1 tim 40 min, copy from Svenska Filminstitutet.

Monday September 2nd:

Bolivia efter Che, 1970, Sweden, 51 min, copy from Filmform.

Tupamaros, 1973, Sweden, 50 min, copy from Filmform.

Monday September 9th:

Soporna, 1971, Sweden, 10 min, copy from Filmform.

Bojkott, 1975, Sweden, 24 min, copy from Filmform.

Agripino, 1977, Sweden, 54 min, copy from Filmform.

Monday September 16th:

Vi har vår egen sång – musikfilmen, 1976, Sweden, 1 tim 40 min, copy from Svenska Filminstitutet.

Sunday September 22nd:

Tiden är en dröm – Del 1 1859 – 1879, 1999, Sweden, 2 tim 7 min, copy from Svenska Filminstitutet.

Sunday September 29th:

Tiden är en dröm – Del 2, 2014, Sweden, 1 tim 43 min, copy from Svenska Filminstitutet.

Gunvor Nelson and Claes Söderquist at the Silver Record Festival in Vaasa, Finland

The Silver Record festival poster

The Silver Record festival poster

The Silver Record Festival will celebrate visionary works in experimental cinema. I frack, debut film from Claes Söderquist and Field Study #2, from american underground cinema pioneer Gunvor Nelson will be part of the programme. The selection has been meticulously curated by Martin Grennberger, Julia Mettenleiter and Stefan Ramstedt. They will be attending the festival, presenting the films and sharing their insights throughout the evening!

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I frack, Claes Söderquist, 1965

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Field Study#2, Gunvor Nelson, 1988

Peter Weiss films at Jacobi Filmtheater GmbH, Merseburg

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Domstadtkino logo

The programme “Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers”, presented by Ulrich Jacobi, will procede in a selection of shorts and texts from Peter Weiss. This will happen in Jacobi Filmtheater (Domstadtkino) on July 20th at 19:30. Ateljéinteriör/ The Studio of Dr. Faust, Ingenting ovanligt and Studie III will be shown for the occasion, to give an insight into the film work of Peter Weiss in Sweden, mostly known for playwright career abroad.

Programme:
Works distributed by Filmform

1

Ateljéinteriör/The Studio of Dr. Faust

Peter Weiss

1956, 00:10:00

2

Ingenting ovanligt

Peter Weiss

1957, 00:09:00

3

Studie III

Peter Weiss

1953, 00:05:00

Peter Nestler’s Sightseeing screened in Berlin

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Zeughauskino logo

Arranged by Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum and curated by Jörg Frieß, Sightseeing by Peter Nestler will be screened at Zeughauskino/Pei-Bau in Berlin on the 28th of June. The screening is a part of the short film programme “Es ist Krieg” in the retrospective ” Nicht versöhnt. Der Dokumentarfilmemacher Peter Nestler”. The programme gives insight in Nestler’s documentary and educational films in which he explores various topics such as war, working conditions, exploitation and structural change, the destruction of nature through industrial intervention, anti-Semitism etc.

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Notizen zu Peter Nestler: Sightseeing

Stockholm ist eine schöne Stadt an diesem Tag. Der Himmel ist noch blauer als das Meer. Die repräsentativen Gebäude sind renoviert, die Straßen sauber, über dem Kastellet weht die schwedische Flagge. Es gibt viel moderne Architektur und Kunst zu sehen, im öffentlichen Raum wie in den Museen. Die hübschen und immer lächelnden blonden Menschen genießen den Sommer in ihrer farbenfrohen Kleidung, die auf dem 16mm- Umkehrmaterial, auf dem Sightseeing gedreht wurde, noch intensiver leuchtet. Wir folgen einer Stadtrundfahrt auf dem Wasser. Die Fremdenführerin, wie man damals wohl noch sagte, weist in englischer Sprache auf das 1628 gesunkene und nun im Hafen geborgene Kriegsschiff Vasa hin, das für eine museale Nutzung restauriert wird.

Peter Nestlers Stimme unterbricht: „Das zeigt, dass die Gesellschaftsstruktur und das Lebensmuster der Demokratischen Republik Vietnam intakt sind. Keine Bombardierung, wie umfassend sie auch sein wird, kann sie zerschlagen.“ Bild- und Textebene gehen fortan getrennte Wege. Peter Nestler spricht über den Krieg in Vietnam, über Flächenbombardierungen, die Kriegsführung gegen die Zivilbevölkerung, die Infrastruktur und die Landwirtschaft, während die Kamera den friedlichen Alltag der schwedischen Hauptstadt einfängt.

Man hätte bereits zu Beginn misstrauisch werden können, denn das erste Bild des Films war eine im Wind wehende US-amerikanische Flagge, unterlegt mit dem von Peter Nestler gesprochenen Vorspann: „Sightseeing. Film von Peter Nestler, der aus einem Bericht von Peter Weiss zitiert. Gemacht 1968. Kamera: Arne Palm.“

Einzelne Bilder stechen heraus, stören die Anmutung eines Imagefilms fürs Stockholmer Tourismusbüro: Im Yachthafen brennt ein Boot, ein kurzer Moment des Kontrollverlustes in dieser so aufgeräumten und sauberen Stadt. Später steht ein adrett gekleideter Polizist in einiger Entfernung vor einem modernen Gebäude. Die Kamera zoomt an ihm vorbei: „Embassy of the United States of America“ ist auf der Fassade zu lesen. Auch die Griechische Botschaft – die Militärdiktatur kam im Jahr zuvor mit Unterstützung der CIA an die Macht – und das US Trade Center werden bewacht. Im Schaufenster das Modell einer Concorde der TWA, eine gescheiterte Vision, militärische Technologie für die zivile Luftfahrt zu nutzen. Vor dem königlichen Palast steht ein Soldat mit Bajonett, aufgepflanzt auf ein Maschinengewehr.

Aber das alles scheint niemanden weiter zu stören. Während in Stockholm hemmungslos konsumiert wird, pflanzt man um „die großen Bombenkrater (…) Spinat und Melonen. In den wassergefüllten Kratern setzt man Fische aus. Wenn ein Fahrweg oder ein Damm zerstört wird, ist bereits ein neuer gebaut ihn zu ersetzen. Wenn eine Brücke getroffen wird, geht man an einer anderen Stelle über den Fluss. Der Feind kann nicht alles gleichzeitig bombardieren. (…) Eines Tages wird die Frage gestellt werden: Können die Vereinigten Staaten dieses Massaker ohne Nachrechnungen durchführen? Wir müssen schon jetzt eine weltumfassende Meinung schaffen, die die Vereinigten Staaten vor die Forderung stellt, mindestens die Kosten für den Wiederaufbau Vietnams zu zahlen.“
Mit diesen Worten endet Sightseeing. Dazu zu sehen ist eine trist wirkende Straße. Die Fenster der Häuser sind teilweise vernagelt. Im Hintergrund steht ein Militärfahrzeug.
Das war vor sechsundfünfzig Jahren. Was hat sich seitdem verändert, außer den Ländernamen in den Nachrichten?

Text: Frederik Lang
Source: Jugend Ohne Film

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Programme:
Work distributed by Filmform

Sightseeing

Peter Nestler

1968, 00:10:00

Microcement by Theresa Traore Dahlberg at Rikstolvan Art Gallery

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Microcement by Theresa Traore Dahlberg will be looped at the exhibition Senapsträdet och himlens fåglar at Rikstolvan. The exhibition reunites Traore Dahlberg’s works with visual artist Siri Dekert’s. The exhibition opens on June 15th and will be on until August 17th at Rikstolvan Art Gallery in Simrishamn. Curated by : Bea Tigerhielm.

Programme:
Work distributed by Filmform

Microcement

Theresa Traore Dahlberg

2021, 00:23:35

Diagonalsymfonin by Viking Eggeling at ToboKulturFest

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“The Works and Days” and “One Plus One 2” screened at HfbK Hamburg

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The Works and Days (Of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) and The Works and Days by Anders Edström and C.W. Winter for seminar screenings at HFBK Hamburg between 23-24 May. The first film is an 8 hour long description, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a sound space, and of a passage of time. The latter, explores an idea of delivering with a restraint that emerges over extended time through simple shots: Some work, lunch, television, a walk, some guitar. Curator of the programme is Bernd Schoch.

Programme:
Works distributed by Filmform

1

The Works and Days (Of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

C.W. Winter & Anders Edström

2020, 08:00:00

2

One Plus One 2

C.W. Winter & Anders Edström

2002, 00:49:00

The Third Part of “Svenska Berättelser” programme at Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus

Film i Samtidskonsten – Logga

This third part of the programme takes place on Friday May 17th at Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus. It will feature Sven Elfström’s Utveckling?, a political montage in reaction to social injustice, infused with the search for both personal and social liberation. Also, there will be Förvandla Sverige from Jan Lindqvist & Stefan Jarl, that exposes Swedish class society and environmental politics, including some amateur footage shot by one of Lindqvist’s relatives. And then,Diamantfolket by Sara Jordenö, who returns to her birthplace in Robertsfors and meets people whose lives have been decisively changed by the closure of the town’s diamond factory.

Programme:
Work distributed by Filmform

1

Utveckling?

Sven Elfström

1971, 00:06:00

2

Förvandla Sverige

Jan Lindqvist & Stefan Jarl

1974, 00:30:00

3

Diamantfolket

Sara Jordenö

2016, 00:30:59

Twerka för Jemen in 2 veckor i maj programme at Teater Tribunalen

2 Veckor i Maj programme

Tanja Holm’s Twerka för Jemen will be screened at Teater Tribunalen in “2 Veckor i Maj” programme on May 11th 2024. The event, that consist of several screenings and workshops is organised by the Swedish-Jemini friendship association. Curator of the programme is Karolina Willebrand Vinnberg.

Programme:
Work distributed by Filmform

Twerka för Jemen

Tanja Holm

2023, 00:10:05

SCHMEERGUNTZ at Cinemateket Stockholm

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SCHMEERGUNTZ by Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley will be shown at Cinemateket Stockholm on May 6th. The screening is organised in the context of “Feministisk filmkultur” event, that is part of the Cinemateket’s “Forskning om film/Research on film” programme which focuses on film studies in terms of an academic subject, as well as film history, theory, research, aesthetics, production, distribution and reception. The program has been put together by Ingrid Ryberg, docent in film studies at the University of Gothenburg, who is currently writing a book Swedish Film Feminism: Agitating Exceptionalism During the Second Wave, about Swedish feminist film culture during the 1970s.

Programme:
Work distributed by Filmform

SCHMEERGUNTZ

Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley

1966, 00:15:00

Filmform news 2024 at the 70th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

A selection of new acquisitions from the Filmform distribution catalogue will be presented in the programme Filmform News 2024 at the 70th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen on May 3rd. The programme will be presented by Anna-Karin Larsson & Andreas Bertman from Filmform.

Programme:
Works distributed by Filmform

1

Killing Time

Kent Klich

2011, 00:11:22

2

Exemplary Unfailed Experience

Felice Hapetzeder

2019, 00:10:55

3

Sightseeing

Peter Nestler

1968, 00:10:00

4

The Sun to me is Dark

Lina Selander & Oscar Mangione

2023, 00:08:30

5

Russelltribunalen

Staffan Lamm

2006, 00:09:27

6

Out of Time

Dror Feiler

2024, 00:00:00

The second part of “Svenska Berättelser” programme at Beau Travail gallery

Film i Samtidskonsten – Logga

The second part of this programme is taking place on Saturday 27th at Beau Travail Gallery in Stockholm. This time focus is on the extremes that can be perceived as tangible and the meta levels in some cases palpable. Andrew Hibbert & Lola Möller’s Bagman about a sluggishly reflective mass murderer, Salad Hilowle’s Svart television that shows treatment of Swedish stereotypes and the representation of Afro-Swedes in the media, Svitjod 2000+ by Mårten Nilsson & David Flamholc, a punky road movie through rural Sweden, and Felice Hapetzeder’s Stockholm 1970 tells the story of a shattered illusion and a critique of the self-sufficiency of Swedish culture. Nathalie Åhbeck and Martin Grennberger are the programme’s curators.

Programme:
Work distributed by Filmform

1

Bagman

Lola Möller & Andrew Hibbert

1993, 00:18:00

2

Stockholm 1970

Felice Hapetzeder

2003, 00:10:00

3

Svitjod 2000

Mårten Nilsson & David Flamholc

2000, 00:10:36

4

Svart television

Salad Hilowle

2021, 00:30:30

Red Shift screened at Open City Festival

Banner Open City Documentary Festival 2024

Red Shift by Gunvor Nelson will be screened on April 25th at ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in the special programme during Open City Documentary Festival London. Following on from last year’s illustrated lecture “Cinematic Grandmothers, Feminist Historicity”, “Grandma’s Grammar” will be a 5-screening programme curated by Will Swinburne. This programme traces the persistence of the figure of the grandmother as locus of feminist historicity in non-fiction film, considering the grandmother as cinematic medium and privileged subject for modelling alternative modes of storytelling, inter-generational genealogies, and archives of memory and lived experience.

Programme:
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RED SHIFT

Gunvor Nelson

1984, 00:50:00

“SCHMEERGUNTZ” in Women of Canyon Cinema programme in San Francisco

2024 Women's History Month Theme: "Our Bodies, Our Stories" Banner

Schmeerguntzby Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley is being screened in the programme “Women of Canyon Cinema” at Roxie Theater on April 22nd. The event is a part of a larger programme called “Our Bodies, Our Stories”, a Women’s History Month Theme at the City College of San Francisco. Prof. Denah Johnston is the programme’s curator.

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SCHMEERGUNTZ

Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley

1966, 00:15:00

Vedergällning screened at Filmforum in Cologne

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Vedergällning by Hanna Ljungh will be screened in the programme “Die Lange Filmnacht (The Film All-Nighter)” on April 19th. The programme is a part of the 41st edition of IFFF (Internationales Frauen Film Fest), which is once again a guest at the Filmforum NRW in Cologne and presents current works by directors from all over the world. This year’s focus: Rage & Horror, Panorama and some specials. The programme is curated by Pavlos Gkegkas.

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Vedergällning

Hanna Ljungh

2007, 00:04:32

Films by Marte Aas and Maja Borg screened in Montréal!

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Exhibition “Futur antérieur. Missing What Will Be Missed” is taking place at Dazibao Centre in Montréal. Works by 13 local, Canadian and international artists are brought together to address notions of futurity in regards to the ecological crisis. Among them are also What I Miss About People, and What I Don’t Miss About People by Marte Aas and Ottica Zero by Maja Borg. The films will be shown in a loop screening between April 18th – June 15th. Emma-Kate Guimond is the programme’s curator.

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What I Miss About People, and What I Don't Miss About People

Marte Aas

2017, 00:10:51

2

Ottica Zero

Maja Ray Borg

2007, 00:13:00

Paula Urbano’s film in “Filmkväll” programme at Köttinspektionen

The Refugee of The Sorrowful Figure by Paula Urbano, 2015

Paula Urbano’s Paula Urbano’s Flyktingen av den sorgliga skepnaden (The Refugee of The Sorrowful Figure) will be screened in the programme “Filmkväll” on April 13th at the Köttispektionen in Uppsala. The film delves into the question of immigration and being a refugee in today’s Sweden. Curator of the program is Alba Folgado.

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Flyktingen av den sorgliga skepnaden

Paula Urbano

2015, 00:43:52

Konstnärsdag med Axel Petersén på FIlmform

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Fredagen den 12 april ger Axel Petersén en introduktion till Filminstitutets stödsystem utifrån sin nya roll som konsulent för kortfilm och nya format – med många år som filmskapare i det överlappande fältet mellan bildkonst och film.

Axel Petersén har sedan millenieskiftet varit verksam som manusförfattare, konstnär och regissör med fokus på rörlig bild. Bland hans långfilmer kan nämnas Avalon (2011), Toppen av ingenting (tillsammans med Måns Månsson, 2018) och Syndabocken (2023). Flera av Axel Peterséns verk finns sedan många år representerade i Filmforms distributionskatalog. Uppdraget som konsulent för kortfilm och nya format innebär bland annat att lyfta fram nya röster och utmana de filmiska gränserna. Axel är utbildad i filmregi, fri konst och konsthistoria bland annat på FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts i Prag och Kungl. Konsthögskolan i Stockholm. Flera av hans filmer har visats och nominerats till priser, både i Sverige och internationellt.

Innan och efter Axel Peterséns genomgång finns möjlighet att träffa Filmforms medarbetare, ställa frågor och lämna in kompletterande material (såsom kontrakt, master-och visningsfiler samt texter, porträtt och stillbilder).

OSA gärna till info@filmform.com för att säkra en plats till genomgången.

PROGRAM

13.00: Dörrarna öppnas, Filmform bjuder på fika

14.00 – 15.30: Presentation med Axel Petersén

15.30 – 17.00: Öppet hus

FILMFORM’s works in Svenska berättelser programme

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During April and May, Nathalie Åhbeck and Martin Grennberger are preparing a three-part programme Svenska berättelser at Zita Folkets Bio (April 10th), Beau Travail (April 27th) and Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus (May 17th), organised by FiS (Film i Samtidskonsten). Svenska berättelser is a film program of films spanning seven decades and across the rich Swedish documentary tradition. It includes mockumentaries, art films as well as early video works and experimental films. This year the focus is on the following artist: Staffan Lamm, Lina Selander, Felice Hapetzeder, Salad Hilowle, Mårten Nilsson & David Flamholc, Lola Möller & Andrew Hibbert, Sara Jordenö and Jan Lindqvist & Stefan Jarl. The majority of films take the form of storytelling experiments, which resist being easily sorted and categorized, but which nevertheless depict the breaking points between the old and the new.

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Judagölen

Staffan Lamm

1981, 00:27:45

2

27 Kilometer Drawing

Lina Selander

2002, 00:07:00

3

Bagman

Lola Möller & Andrew Hibbert

1993, 00:18:00

4

Stockholm 1970

Felice Hapetzeder

2003, 00:10:00

5

Svitjod 2000

Mårten Nilsson & David Flamholc

2000, 00:10:36

6

Svart television

Salad Hilowle

2021, 00:30:30

7

Utveckling?

Sven Elfström

1971, 00:06:00

8

Förvandla Sverige

Jan Lindqvist & Stefan Jarl

1974, 00:30:00

9

Diamantfolket

Sara Jordenö

2016, 00:30:59

“EADNI” and “Faces” in Boxen at Västernorrlands museum

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During the month of April,Västernorrlands Museum will show two films that revolve around identity in relation to landscape and nature – Faces and EADNI by Liselotte Wajstedt. The programme is part of Museum’s film section called “Boxen” that will loop Wajstedt’s films between April 1st-30th. Curator of the programme is Karolina Aastrup.

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EADNI

Liselotte Wajstedt

2023, 00:07:00

2

Faces

Liselotte Wajstedt

2008, 00:03:29

MY NAME IS OONA at MUDAM Luxembourg

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Exhibition “Workers in Song” is taking place at MUDAM in Luxembourg between 29 March – 9 June 2024. Workers in Song is the latest iteration of an ongoing collaborative project by composer Billy Bultheel (b. 1987, Brussels) and visual artist James Richards (b. 1983, Cardiff). At Mudam, Bultheel and Richards present a choreographed performance with live music alongside film screenings of HEVN by P.Staff, My Name is Oona by Gunvor Nelson and Studio Floor Rotation by Josh Tonsfeldt. “Workers in Song” seeks to confront the viewer with paradoxical sensations of pleasure and discomfort. It alludes to the depth of human existence, beauty, death, sex, loneliness, nostalgia, togetherness, and their intricate relationships. Curators of the programme are Joel Valabrega, Clémentine Proby and Nathalie Lesure.

Programme:
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MY NAME IS OONA

Gunvor Nelson

1969, 00:10:00

Get off at the Courtisane festival

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Get Off by Elin Magnusson will be screened during the 23rd edition of the Courtisane festival happening between March 27th-31st. Magnusson’s film is shown in the programme “IT DRIPS, IT SPLASHES, IT BURNS, IT SCRAPES” on March 30th in the Paddenhoek cinema. That programme is curated by Ditte Claus. Entrance is free, but reservations are recommended.

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Get Off

Elin Magnusson

2009, 00:06:00

FILMFORM’s works screened in “INTERPLAY” programme at CNEMA

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CNEMA in Norrköping is hosting a programme called Interplay between March 22nd and 24th. Among the films selected by Lars Jonsson, on March 23rd there will be a screening of multiple works from FILMFORM’s catalogue. That programme is shown in two sections: First, classics with early video art from the 70s and 80s by, among others, Kjartan Slettemark, Teresa Wennberg and Gunvor Nelson. Then more contemporary films, by Christine Ödlund, Hannah Ljung, Maria von Hausswolf and films with some Norrköping context by Kim Ekberg.

Programme:
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1

Studie II/Hallucinationer

Peter Weiss

1952, 00:05:19

2

Norma or Gene

Suzanne Nessim & Teresa Wennberg

1979, 00:11:00

3

Music For Your Eyes

Hans (Esse Li) Esselius

1971, 00:02:29

4

I videohuvet på en konstnär

Kjartan Slettemark

1983, 00:10:32

5

Video or Not To Be

Kjartan Slettemark

1985, 00:04:23

6

SNOWDRIFT (A.K.A SNOWSTORM)

Gunvor Nelson

2001, 00:09:00

7

How to Civilize a Waterfall

Hanna Ljungh

2010, 00:03:53

8

New Centuries are Rare

coyote

2023, 00:11:40

9

Graders ökning

Christine Ödlund

2003, 00:04:13

10

Alien Tourist

Maria Hausswolff, von

2017, 00:14:44

11

2Gether

Kim Ekberg

2022, 00:14:32

“Untitled Abisko” in Museum Ostwall in Dortmund

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On March 20th “Green Culture Week” programme in Ostwall Museum in Dortmund is showing the films Untitled Abisko by Sophie Vuković and It is Night in América by Ana Vaz. Both filmmakers approach human-shaped landscapes in their works shot on 16mm. Sophie Vuković interweaves shots of the northern Swedish mountain landscape, which is changing dramatically due to climate change, while Ana Vaz’s experimental documentary shows the planned city of Brasília, built in the middle of the rainforest. Curator of the programme is Christina Danick.

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Untitled Abisko

Sophie Vuković

2020, 00:19:20

Twerka för Jemen at Scen Sundsvall

Twerk for Yemen, Tanja Holm, 2023

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.

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Twerka för Jemen

Tanja Holm

2023, 00:10:05

BAC is screening Fia-Stina Sandlund’s both “ACTS”

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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.

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Act 1: An Idealistic Attempt

Fia-Stina Sandlund

2007, 00:12:55

2

Act 2: reconstruction of an action that never took place

Fia-Stina Sandlund

2007, 00:17:05

SCHMEERGUNTZ in the EYE Filmmuseum!

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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.

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SCHMEERGUNTZ

Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley

1966, 00:15:00

Kulturhuset Stadsteatern includes Carl Johan de Geer and Kjartan Slettemark in the “Gör det själv” exhibition

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Lektion i konsten att falla, Videovoodoo and excerpts from Digitalisman by Kjartan Slettemark as well as Jag minns Lena Svedberg by Carl Johan de Geer will be shown in the exhibition “Gör det själv”/”Do it yourself” between March 1 – August 11 at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. “Gör det själv” presents eight pioneering Swedish artists who have gone their own way and challenged the norms of art, both consciously and unconsciously. Curator of the programme is Jeanette Steinsland.

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Jag minns Lena Svedberg

Carl Johan De Geer

2000, 00:06:34

2

Digitalisman

Kjartan Slettemark

2001, 00:13:20

3

Videovoodoo

Kjartan Slettemark

1982, 00:17:30

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Lektion i konsten att falla by Kjartan Slettemark, 1969

“De Geers filmarkiv” at Stadsmuseet

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Between February 24th and April 20th there will be three separate screenings of films by Carl Johan De Geer at the Stadsmuseet in Stockholm. The exhibition is titled “De Geer’s film archive” and is dedicated to the artist himself. There will be an additional, fourth screening of all titles on April 20th during Kulturnatten.

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Med kameran som tröst, del 2

Carl Johan De Geer

2004, 01:10:00

2

Mormor, Hitler och jag

Carl Johan De Geer

2001, 00:17:00

3

Stockholmssyndromet

Carl Johan De Geer

2002, 00:09:00

4

Jag minns Håkan Alexandersson

Carl Johan De Geer

2006, 00:14:00

5

Jag minns Lena Svedberg

Carl Johan De Geer

2000, 00:06:34

FILMFORM’s works screened at Bio Valand

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Multiple films from FILMFORM’s catalogue will be screened at Bio Valand in Göteborg on February 22nd. The programme, arranged by HDK-Valand (from Göteborgs University) includes films from various artists: from Peter Weiss and Gunvor Nelson to Hamza and Cecilia Lundqvist. Curator of the programme is Daniel Jewesbury.

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1

Yo también soy humo / I Am Also Smoke

Runo Lagomarsino

2020, 00:03:16

2

her master's voice

Cecilia Lundqvist

2018, 00:01:47

3

Mass - Monument for a Capitalist Society

Åsa Sjöström

1976, 00:14:00

4

Det underbara mötet

Mihail Livada

1949, 00:11:08

5

The Secret of the Desert

Hamza

2022, 00:03:25

6

Ateljéinteriör/The Studio of Dr. Faust

Peter Weiss

1956, 00:10:00

7

MY NAME IS OONA

Gunvor Nelson

1969, 00:10:00

8

Enligt lag

Peter Weiss & Hans Nordenström

1957, 00:20:00

Exhibition dedicated to Olivier Herdies at TECKNINGSMUSEET

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“Olivier Herdies – Levande sitt eget liv” is the name of the exhibition that’s taking place at Teckningsmuseet, dedicated to the Belgian-Swedish artist himself. Between February 17th – May 26th his film Popen kommer till stan, a documentary film about the rise of the pop art scene in Stockholm, will be shown in the form of a loop screening. Curator of the programme is Maria Wikrén.

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Popen kommer till stan

Olivier Herdies

1964, 00:33:00

“Sunsets” in the exhibition at Galleri CC

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“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.

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Sunsets

Lisa Tan

2012, 00:22:30

FILMFORM’s works screened at Stockholms University

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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.

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Psychic

Tova Mozard

2019, 00:18:30

2

EADNI

Liselotte Wajstedt

2023, 00:07:00

3

The Girl Kiruna

Liselotte Wajstedt

2020, 00:10:00

“If I Remember My Dreams by the Color They Are…” in the exhibition at Bohuslän’s museum

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If I Remember My Dreams by the Color They Are… by Maria Magnusson will be looped in a display at Bohuslän’s museum in the exhibition Embers and Stars, between January 27th – April 21st. The exhibition Embers and Stars brings together five artists who have many points of contact – creation being the most obvious one, but also desire, longing and friendship. Curator of the programme is Agneta von Zeipel.

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I Remember My Dreams by the Colour They Are...

Maria Magnusson

2011, 00:04:21

Filmform at IFFR 2024

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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

Isblink

Olga Krüssenberg

2024, 00:14:18

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

Överföringsdiagram nr 1

Lina Selander & Oscar Mangione

2018, 00:08:30

DINAMO presentation at OX.space, Joey Ramone and de Doelen
26th January - 3rd February, normal opening hours

Hang Ten Sunset

Katarina Löfström

2000, 00:08:23

San Francisco Cinematheque screens ” Sunspots and Solar Flare”!

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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.

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Sunspots and Solar Flare

Maria Magnusson

2013, 00:02:33

Aktivering Samtal! screened at Berlin University of the Arts

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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.

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Aktivering Samtal!

Mats Eriksson Dunér

2020, 00:58:00

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