A film about the rock carvings in the Swedish west coast province of Bohuslän with motifs fromo a number of carvings in different parts of the landscape
Secção: 90 Anos de Curtas Metragens Suecas
A man driving happily to the coast. The journey ends when he runs over a child.
Set during the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in July 2006. We see the effects for the local population. The sirens, military patrols, blocked streets, low-flying helicopters and armed escorts. City under siege. Even the largest cemetery in the city turned into a strategically sensitive location at the time.
A spoof on serial murder films executed in a deadly casualness. The film can with some distance also be seen as a portray of safe Sweden in the eighties.
Animated film about a troll being disciplined after making all kinds of trouble. “
Birger hasn’t had a visitor for eight years. Suddenly the doorbell rings…
A personal story told by a woman who lives in a deserted industrial place and works in a factory where they make real elephants.
“A Day in the City” is an urban symphony about the city and specifically about Stockholm in the fifties. Hultén has constructed a collage of images on the basis of the aesthetics of silent film and the montage technique of Vertov and Ruttman.
“A Day in the City” moves between pure experimentation and humorous touches, poking fun at the labyrinths of bureaucracy.
In the middle of the tracks Nills pulls on the handbrake and turns off the engine.The train is due in 3 minutes. Nils leans back in his seat and waits for death,when Gosta happens to turn up his tractor. Nils lays blame on a dodgy motor and Gosta decides that Nils is in shock and recommends a nice cup of coffee. According to the timetable,another train is due in 3 hours’time. Before then Nils has to drink a cup of coffee with Gosta,say thanks for the help and return to the track in time to meet his death.
A collection of commercials for the insurance company Trygg & Hansa, Estrella peanuts, the cooperative housing organisation HSB, Lotto and the labour union LO by Roy Andersson.
“Exit” takes point in Hieronymus Bosch¬¥s drawings of disabled; the drawings are used as documentary images where the disabled are put into a nightmare-like situation where several limping, disabled people being chased by a fire coming down a 1000 metres long corridor. They seem to be victims of a demonic, grim contemporary version of a gladiator game. Every time the fire consumes someone, the applause from the loudspeakers covering the walls, crescendos. Some of the people manage to save themselves with the help of a helicopter waiting for them.
Färgelanda, a small village outside of the town Uddevalla on Sweden’s west coast. Images from the surrounding areas and the railway station, the Lelenge Line with steam locomotive and passengers.
We are four eggs small, we drove into a wall, no safety belts we had and that was very bad.
In an unknown time and unknown place two men strive tirelessly to make contact with another civilization. But the reception is bad so they seek higher ground. They travel through a gloomy and barren world with the hope of a more tolerable existence hopelessly distant.
Greta Garbo as model in a commercial for the department store PUB (Paul U. Bergstrom AB). On the terrace of Strand Hotel and at a picnic in a commercial for Konsum.
“Revolver” is an experimental short film based on repetitive movement. The main intention was to create a film much in the same way as you would create a piece of music; themes that build and develop rather than a traditional narrative.
“I want to describe important issues about Europeans, about responsibility and guilt, moral issues, which are so rare in films. Dekalog by Kieslowski made me believe in filmmaking again.”
(Roy Andersson)
Ingmar Bergman’s Commercials for Bris