Swedish for immigrants, is an ironic portrait of cultural and national identity. At first it makes us feel insecure or even uneasy, but then surprises us and leaves us with a smile of recognition.
After collapse comes rebuilding, beginning with Like a Musical. The context is has changed and we look at musical gestures. The structure that organizes the relationship between subject and object, between subject and cultural experience is in motion. In The Skater a woman’s voice raises a man to a higher level through her blind admiration. The carpet is slipping under our feet and we are moving just as helpless as him. This is most likely irony or is it perhaps blind love? Whatever the case, it is definitely funny.

But how funny are the thugs in Deaf Throes, this is a tragicomedy in mini format? The initial laughter sticks in your throat and instead you may feel like helping these sad characters to a new life.

Humour is part of creativity. The gap between sound, image and the title plate of a filmstrip is the site of play in Associations of hygiene problems. It tickles and defies all the conventional requirements of a film’s story.

Bloomberg.com is one of the most visited web pages on the stock market. In the video, which alludes to this, one can literally see how images and ideas are designed and built, only to collapse – fragments are overturned and re-shaped and in a new monetary pattern.

Just when we’ve got up after the financial collapse, a toy animal squeezes us in to the corner of the video screen with an unpleasant laugh, and we can’t do anything else but think again.

The selection of works represents a small portion of the Filmform Foundations distribution archive of early and contemporary Swedish experimental film and video art.

In countries where democracy does not exist and people are oppressed, political actions become a way to put forward opinions and to protest against the powers that be. In Sweden, the interest for this art form has increased lately, among both artists and curators. The actions are ways to express one self, examine situations and expose one self to meetings in unprotected areas. The public space such as the street, the marketplace or the department store is transformed into a natural stage. Even the private home might be more interesting for an artist than art centres or galleries. Art is displaced and barges its way, picks a fight and questions. Few performances and political actions are accessible after the actual event. This screening is an opportunity for you to watch some of them.
Filmform has collected a number of videos, film and documentations.