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.
Kiruna is one of the few cities in the world that is entirely planned and designed from its inception. Kvarteret Ortdrivaren focuses on the modernist architectural work of the Ralph Erskine-designed area of the city called ‘Kvarteret Ortdrivaren’ and how the overall vision shaped the neighborhood’s four buildings.
Situated directly opposite the LKAB site, these buildings are intimately connected with the history of mining in Kiruna. Wajstedt has interviewed the people who live in the buildings, following the lives of three older ladies. They are all upset and saddened by having to vacate their homes, as many of the residents have lived there since the 1960’s. In this film, Wajstedt reflect on the meaning of home, on the histories of embodied experiences in lived-in spaces, and what losing one’s home may ultimately do to individuals and communities.
Liselotte Wajstedt, born in 1973 in Kiruna and currently based in Stockholm, works as a director and screenwriter, while also engaging in installation and visual art. Through her extensive body of experimental moving image work, she explores aesthetics and politics with recurring themes such as heritage, abuse, and identity.
Her experimental work includes more than two dozen short and feature-length films. Through hybrid documentary, experimental media, music video, dance, and fiction film, Wajstedt employs a wide range of styles and techniques in service of her political and artistic expressions, including animation, claymation, stop-motion, and superimposition. Many of Wajstedt’s films explicitly or implicitly engage with multiple and hybrid subject positions, as evident in EADNI (2023), Tystnaden i Sápmi (2022), Sire och den sista sommaren (2022), Kiruna–Rymdvägen (2013), Sami Daughter Joik (2008), and The Lost One (2014).
