Peter Weiss (1916 - 1982) was a celebrated German/Swedish author and playwright, known especially for his stage play "Marat/Sade". His literary fame overshadowed his work as a surrealist painter and avant-garde filmmaker.

Surface reality is made to yield suggestive images which become as firm, as certain, and as tantalising as the object itself. The solidity of the image – hallucinations, dreams, madmen's ravings – later became a recurrent feature of Weiss' work. In his surrealistic 1953 film, 'Hallucinations', Weiss played an intricate visual game on the interchangeability of image and reality.

This short film collection includes thirteen of Peter Weiss' films and a booklet containing an interview with Weiss by Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss and texts by Jon Wengström, Martin Grennberger, and Stefan Ramstedt.

Featured titles:
– 'Studie I: Uppvaknandet' (Study I: The Awakening), 1952, 6 min.
– 'Studie II: Hallucinationer' (Study II: Hallucinations), 1952, 5 min.
– 'Studie III' (Study III), 1953, 5 min.
– 'Studie IV: Frigörelse' (Study IV: Relief), 1954, 8 min.
– 'Studie V: Växelspel' (Study V: Interplay), 1955, 8 min.
– 'Ansikten i skugga' (Faces in Shadow), 1956, 13 min.
– 'Ateljéinteriör (The Studio of Dr. Faust)', 1956, 9 min.
– 'Ingenting ovanligt' (Nothing Unusual), 1957, 9 min.
– 'Enligt lag' (According to Law), 1957, 18 min.
– 'Vad ska vi göra nu då' (What Shall We Do Now), 1958, 20 min.
– 'Tagning narkomaner', 1960, 6 min.
– 'Anna Casparsson', 1960, 13 min.
– 'Tagning Öyvind Fahlström', 1961, 12 min.

This DVD was made in collaboration with Filmform and RE:VOIR. All films included in this edition were digitised by the Swedish Film Institute between 2015 and 2020. The restoration of some of the films was done by Tomas Ehrnborg Medieproduktion in collaboration with Filmtech.

Note: The films include English and French subtitles and the booklet contains texts in both English and French.