Selected by Petter Mattsson, Swedish Film Institute. The Swedish Film Institute film programme will be presented by Åsa Garnert.
Åsa Garnert
She works at the Swedish Film Institute's information department. She has also worked as responsible for the international festival distribution of documentaries. From 1999 - 2001 she was the director of the Uppsala International Short Film Festival. In addition she has programmed various short film programmes and events as well as worked for the TEMPO Documentary Festival in Stockholm. She has also worked as a journalist for the Swedish public service national radio.
Live action short films often flirt with the experimental. Many of the best short films in Sweden right now use a language that is perhaps more familiar to an art audience rather than the ordinary cinema going public expecting a straight-forward film. Mårten Nilsson and Gunilla Heilborn employ a mix of dance and the aesthetics of reality TV to tell their story. Ruben Östlund's autobiographical first short film uses the style of documentary filmmaking and "artsy" distortion to tell his story and in Johan Löfstedt's Kometen (The Comet) a completely fictitous story, is told through home-movies recorded from the fifties up until the early seventies. In short, in this entertaining small selection of Swedish short films you can expect the unexpected.
Petter Mattsson
Kometen/The CometJohan Löfstedt, Sweden, 2004, 35mm, 28’, ap/es
Stockholm 1965. A man with a film camera documents his surroundings the last days before the crash of a comet. A fiction film based on documentary material, from the time before the end of the world. 30 minutes of catastrophy poetry from 297 rolls of double-8 film shot between 1959 and 1971.
Autobiographical Scene Number 6882Ruben Östlund, Sweden, 2005, 35mm, 8’30’’, ap/es
A 30-year old man is celebrating Midsummer’s Eve together with friends in Smögen, on the west coast of Sweden. He makes his friends come and watch as he is going to jump in to the sea from a very high bridge.
Sportstugan/The LodgeGunilla Heilborn, Mårten Nilsson, Sweden, 2005, 35mm, 12’40’’, ap/es
Henrik gathers some of his friends at a summer house by a lake, deep in the forest. How will these city folks cope with nature? And how will they react to each other, way out in the wilderness?
Three Poems by Spoon JacksonMichel Wenzer, Sweden, 2003, 35mm, 14’, v angleškem jeziku/English spoken
A poetic short film in three parts, about Spoon Jackson - a man who has spent 25 years in prison. His way of surviving is through poetry. A moving film that blends strong imagery with Spoon’s poetry which is relayed over the phone.
Utvecklingssamtal/HeadwayJens Jonsson, Sweden, 2004, 15’, 35mm, ap/es
A film about a man trying to make headway in life.