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SHORT FILMS - VIDEO WORKS - ART FILMS
TIME BELLS
Production year 2012. Length 6 mins.
Earth is rising. Bells are ringing out for lost souls. Time as we know it does not exist.
IMPERCEPTIBLY SHIFTS EVERYDAY LIFE ITS FACE
Production year 2011. Length 8 minutes.
Eight minutes of everyday life; a room where nothing seems to happen, a cat, a fly. But one sound tell us different.
FALLING - A VERTICAL JOURNEY
Production year 2011. Length 9 minutes.
A quote by Rilke, the stage is set and then follow different journeys by the metro in Stockholm. The final journey, or? You decide.
I. What kind of place is this? Strange but at the same time familiar.
II. Where am I heading? I travel. It feels good.
III. Suddenly new objects before my eyes. I remember things.
IV. What kind of train is this? I become aware of a new sound, the view is blurry.
DID YOU SEE THAT BIRD?
Production year 2010. Length 10 minutes.
A film for all of you who don't see that bird - and for all of you who can. The film is a simple tribute to everyday life; people are walking, a falling leaf, cars and trains passing by. The first part (of three) is closely connected to a piece of music by the english composer Max Richter - Landscape With Figure (1922) from his album Memory House from 2002.
Questions concerning a music license before screening this film is under consideration.
NATURE THROUGH URBAN LIFE
Production year 2010. Length 6 minutes.
Once again I've made a film that deals with time, now represented by two old handmade toys and a 'divine' hand. After this intro follows Nature Through Urban Life - cultivated elements from nature along with urban soundscapes. The sound is as usual a very important component.
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/86561/nature-through-urban-life
TRAVEL MINDSCAPE TRIPTYCH
Production year 2010. Length 14 minutes.
We are all travelers. Through space and time, from life to death - and beyond. Everything is movement, transitions, rhythm, patterns. So much in life consists of repetition, variations on a theme, mixed by life itself; it's all very subtle but now and then we become aware of it - Déjà vu!
Time Is Movement | Movement Is Change | Change Is Time
This film has been screened at Salon des Refusés in Stockholm 2011, 1 July - 2 Oct 2011.
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/102786/travel-mindscape-triptych
STOCKHOLM | LONDON NOISE
Production year 2099. Length 3 minutes.
A film produced for Quickflick London in november 2009. Two cities - and fragmental noise from people (living or dead), buildings and places transformed to electronica.
This film has been screened at Roxy Bar in London 2009.
WATCHTOWER
Production year 2009. Length 7 minutes.
A kind of war drama that takes place mostly within the viewers head. A few stills, sound effects and a soundscape along with some video effects and a couple of old portraits in b/w - and of course, blended with different memories from the viewers. That's all.
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/80976/watchtower
MAN ? NATURE
Production year 2008/2009. Length 12 minutes.
Even sustainable development is the white man's dream - everything has a price.
In 2008, for the first time in world history, more than 50 percent - 3.3 billion - of all humans were living in cities. And remember: water is life.
This short film from Pretto film is compiled from two other short films; Urban People and Water, filmed in the central areas of Stockholm. In this compilation I have made a framework with three blocks of text and two soundscapes. One of the main questions the film raises is: Is it possible to separate Nature from Man at this point in the history of evolution? Nature - from the dawn of Man, under the influence.
The film was my contribution to The Verner Herzog Competition on Shooting People in August 2009.
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/77338/man-nature
EMBRACED BY TIME - REMEMBER US
Production year 2009. Length 8 minutes.
This short film from Pretto film deals with tracks of time and memories and our deepest wish to be remembered by those who will survive us. The structure and the mood in the film is closely connected to the music by Michael Nyman and one of the soundtracks from The Piano, directed by Jane Campion in 1993, The Embrace/Lost and Found.
This film was also my contribution to The Michael Nyman Competition on Shooting People in August 2009.
In Embraced by Time we see places and objects embraced by time; the nature itself, the blue sky as it has been for millions of years, pieces of old wood and objects of concrete with lots of lichens on the surface. In the space between showing old photographs, the camera is searching amongst semi old columns in a strange garden. For the second time we see some of the old photographs - and some never seen before. The last two video sequences transfers us to the time near present day.
Along with the music, Embraced by Time, maybe, gives the impression of a nostalgic state of mind. My point is that there are two main kinds of nostalgia: a good one and a bad one. It is necessary to reflect over the past. As humans we are living in the past, in the present and in the future - all at the same time. But we can never go back. Then we will be 'lost in a lost world'. But bear in mind: time and memory is the same thing, so please: Remember Us.
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/76254/embraced-by-time-remember-us
URBAN PEOPLE
Production year 2008. Length 3 minutes.
A reflection about urban life. We walk in our own footsteps and right through the people around us.
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/74852/urban-people
WATER
Production year 2008. Length 6 minutes.
Some aspects of water. Initially, from the same view, we see some water splashing and with the help of different filters and other techniques the water transmits different emotions to the viewer. To look at and listen to water, or the sound of the sea, is like looking into an open fireplace. It feels good. But, film is always fake. What you see is Lake Mälaren in the heart of Stockholm and what you hear is the sound of the Baltic Sea. But does it matter?
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/74914/water
URBAN ETUDE
Production year 2008. Length 3 minutes.
Urban life - we take a short trip by the underground, look at a skyline, then at a board with trainarrivals. All this ending with a question: Will I dream? Dream of what? When? In the afterlife? I don't know.
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/74789/urban-etude
ONE WAY ELEVATOR
Production year 2008. Length 3 minutes.
One Way Elevator is like a journey from the sky down to the people in a city. What I had in mind when making this film was the God Indras daughter and the journey she did down to earth in the play of August Strindberg, A Dream Play. Just the journey, nothing else.
The whole film is a vertical journey and consists only of stills, except for a short video intro. We see a blue sky, hear the sound from the elevator engine and down it goes, down along buildings, urban places and graffiti. Finally, we see some people and hear the sound of an elevator door that opens. Earth, at last? Or: all the time?
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/74913/one-way-elevator
VOGLER'S DREAM
Production year 2007. Length 1 minute.
This is an early, short testfilm from my work in progress Dreams of a Morpheinist.
The clip was for a long time available for viewing (from 2007 to 2011) on The Swedish Television's website for the program Kobra.
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