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.
Music for Your Eyes / May I Kiss Your Brain Madame is a polite request to enter a person’s experiences. The film’s vignette has another text that reads “Music for Your Eyes – music and visual impressions in psychedelic union”. The clubs of the 1960s, with their fluorescent lights, leave traces of memories. Esselius creates fractals and kaleidoscopic patterns, doll faces that rush past the screen and return – a dangerous invitation that possibly mimics an influence of more than just sound and image – a twisting psychedelic experience. The music throbs, the brain registers. It’s all about film and not at all about reality.
Born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he is still based.
Hans Esselius works as a film-maker and artist with computer graphics. His education includes Konstfackskolan, Department of Photography, Private student with artist Kjartan Slettemark (5-years of high art school), and Högskolan i Skövde, Konstinriktade studier i datorgrafik, among others. Has worked actively with Arbetsgruppen för Film, Stiftelsen Filmform, Filmverkstan, Föreningen Video Nu samt Föreningen Elektronisk Bildkonst.
Previous exhibitions include Stockholm Art Fair, Galleri Baggen (Digital grafik), Grafikens Hus, Grafisk Revolution (Digital Big Image Poster), and Konstakademien, Stockholm, 12:e Grafiktrienalen (Digital grafik), and his art is represented at Malmö Konstmuseeum and the Fine Art Research and Holographic Center, Chicago, among other places.
