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.
The Háldi is a forest creature that may lure children into the woods. Is it only a part of Sámi mythology or is it as real as you and I? Who is she? Why would she want to lure children out into the woods? Is she evil or egotistical? Or is she maybe just lonely …?
She is a part of her forest and acts a bit odd, because sometimes she takes the form of a tree, or becomes a part of the moss. Háldi is a part of the ecological system. The kids lured out by her become a part of nature’s fauna.EADNI, which means mother, is a multi-layered visual saga that provokes thought. Focusing on Háldi, the whole story is a creation story with the hope that we will protect nature and ensure that the eternal cycle continues.
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).
