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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
