Movies: Arbetsgruppen For Film

'Studie IV' (1955) by Peter Weiss portrays a liberation process. The main character moves between different rooms, rooms of significance for him, dragging something that constantly changes form but eventually turns out to be himself. It is an old and...

Spik-Bebis (Nail-baby) lives in a warehouse. He starts the day by hitting a nail into his head. Shot entirely in Super-8, this live action film features “fast cars, fancy dinners and unusual hairdos”....

Study V: Interplay is constructed along the same principles as Study IV / Hallucinations. Sequences of photographic abstractions have been balanced against more realistic sections. Study V depicts a surrealistically charged encounter between two love...

Old photographs and pictures with a dialogless soundtrack of a train ride....

A film about multi-media artist Kjartan Slettemark’s Nixon Visions, the collective title of his famous pictorial version of president Nixon, made 1971-74. It has its beginning in, among other things, Slettemark’s slogan ‘Opposition Must Pay Off’. The...

In Söderquist's first film [I frack] In Tuxedo, playfulness and improvisation are combined with absurd humor. An artist steps into an empty studio and begins assembling objects into a tree-like sculpture. The sculpture is adorned with small white pap...

Rondo may be perceived as an improvised stylistic exercise set to music. It was made with a statically fixed camera. Bright colors run together on a rotating disc. New layers of colors emerge and disappear according to chance. Patterns are formed and...

Painted pictures of castles, knights and flowers to a poem by Karl Vennberg....

Poetic film about Iris in different meanings....

"The White Hands" - 'I came to film in my capacity of poet, wanting to see whether I could express myself in pictures rather that in words-create a film poem. Not a traditional piece of lyric but something that suggests and hints and transmits its co...