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.
Brothers to Sisters: Välimiehet Performing “Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves” BY Nils Agdler & Timo Menke
Brothers to Sisters is an ongoing series of choir works, initially produced in collaboration with the Porin Mies-Laulu male choirs in Pori, Finland. A male choir version of Annie Lennox’s and D. A. Stewart’s Sisters Are Doin’ it for Themselves (1985) is performed by the Välimiehet choir: the younger male generation reflects changes in gender roles and masculinity, insofar as the paragon of masculinity has been the role of the man as the family’s breadwinner.
English title
Brothers to Sisters: Välimiehet Performing “Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves”
Born 1969 in Östersund, Sweden. Lives in Stockholm.
Nils is working as an artist and photographer in Stockholm. He has studied at the University College of Arts Crafts and Design and Valand School of Fine Arts and is interested in social phenomena such as mental and physical boundaries, electricity and mass tourism. Recently Agdler collaborated with Timo Menke on a film project about men and masculinity. The results have been screened at several international filmfestivals during 2018, including screening at 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, with Filmform and Timo Menke.
Timo Menke
Timo Menke was born in Germany, and lives and works in Sweden since 1988. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm in 1999. Between 2004 and 2014 he has been teaching as Senior lecturer at the department of art at Konstfack, Stockholm. He is also engaged at the Filmform foundation, the Art Film and Video Archive, in Stockholm, dealing with archiving and distribution of film and video art.
