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Revisit takes it starting point from some photographs I took in Griffith Park in Los Angeles 2004. After 13 years I return to the park trying to find my way back to the same locations.
Revisit was done during my residency at Echo Park Filmcenter in 2017, a stay that was supported by IASPIS: The Swedish Arts Grant Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Artists. The film was shown and a part of Filmcicle – a combined bike ride/activism with Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr from EPFC. We took a bike ride from Alvarado Street to Hollywood Blvd and when we arrived, riding around on bike with a movie projector showing REVISIT while biking on Hollywood Blvd and outside The Egyptian Theatre and it’s surroundings. After the ride we went to see Robert Schallers films on L.A. Filmforum.
-Maria Magnusson is an artist and filmmaker based in Gothenburg whose work explores the relationship between sound and moving images. She holds a Master’s degree in Photography and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Theory from the University of Gothenburg. Working with found footage and archival material, Magnusson combines analogue and digital filmic methods to investigate themes such as memory, dreams, and the unconscious. She has participated in artist residencies in Canada, Mexico, and California, where she explored various analogue photographic and ecological cinematic processes.
Site-specificity and collaboration with the landscape are recurring aspects of her practice, often connected to her upbringing on a farm in Norra Björke. Magnusson’s experimental films have been shown at festivals, galleries, and micro-cinemas, including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, LA FilmForum, Echo Park Film Center, Alchemy Film Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, Images Festival, and Experiments in Cinema, among others.
