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.
A Dj plays a record on a turntable, and pulls it backwards and forwards. The record is replaced by a zootrope decorated a kind of ring-dance of t-shirt labelled clones. The speed increases and the stills are blurred into a kind of spectral super-identity – a linear division is transformed into a schizophrenic ‘now’. A disc at the bottom of the zootrope spins away and cuts off the top of the Dj:s head. His brain turns out to be a bundle of multicoloured t-shirts.
Born 1977 in Huddiksvall, grew up in Nynäshamn. Master of Fine Arts degree in Umeå 2007. He is working mainly with an extended vector drawn animation-cycle, as well as graphics, in a kind of illustrative emblem-making, dealing with information and language as well as with identity and self-symbols. Through the use of generative formulas following compositional rules, puzzlelike narratives are constructed. Using snippets of literature and icons from popular culture, Sparr mixes them like a DJ in his animated videos with a critical wit. His work has been shown in many screenings and film festivals across the globe.
