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Guest program by Martin Grennberger, independent curator
When attempting to remap some early milieus of experimental film culture in Sweden, one cannot help but notice their scattered nature. The 1950s saw the beginning of co-op initiatives with the establishment of Svensk Experiment Film Studio in 1950 (today, Filmform); artists and painters, transfixed by its polysemic kinetic and temporal nature, turned to filmmaking; and a steady group of cinephiles was incipient in the burgeoning film clubs.
This program, spanning close to 40 years – from vaudevillian explorations by Pontus Hultén and his partner in crime, Robert Breer, to Gunvor Nelson’s brief, forceful and silent portrayal of her dying mother in Time Being (1991) – aims to show an invigorating yet fluctuating sociogram of activities taking place during those years.
Carl Slättne’s Amen (1964), for two unsynchronized 16mm projectors, had its first screening at the Situationist-Anarchist Film Festival in Halmstad; and Claes Söderquist’s debut I Frack (1964), epitomized by its processual and performative vivacity, is set to an improvisation of early free jazz. Composer, trombonist and educator Jan Bark made 8mm films during the 1960s, inventive in their somatic camerawork, use of superimpositions and multivalent gesturality; and with Olle Hedman and Åsa Sjöström, structural investigation, sonic elaboration, process and repetition are emphasized, in the latter case by employing solarized footage and, for the Swedish context, an unusual use of optical printing.
–- Martin Grennberger
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UN MIRACLE
by Robert BREER & Pontus HULTÉN 1954 / 16mm / color / silent / 0' 21 |
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X
by Pontus HULTÉN 1954 / 16mm / color / sound / 9' 05 |
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AMEN
by Carl SLÄTTNE 1964 / 16mm / color / sound / 20' 00 / double écran |
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I FRACK
by Claes SÖDERQUIST 1964 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 10' 00 |
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MASS - MONUMENT FOR A CAPITALIST SOCIETY
by Åsa SJÖSTRÖM 1976 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 14' 00 |
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METRO MEANS OF CONVEYANCE
by Olle HEDMAN 1977 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 7' 00 |
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BRUDSLÖJA
by Jan BARK 1964 / DCP / color / sound / 4' 36 |
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WILLIAM BIRD
by Jan BARK 1965 / DCP / color / sound / 4' 00 |
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TIME BEING
by Gunvor NELSON 1991 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 6' 00 |
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