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Gunvor Nelson, My Name is Oona, 1969. 16 mm, 10 min
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FILMSCREENING WITH GUNVOR NELSON
Opening night August 18, 7-9 PM at Moderna Museet Malmö
During one month, between August 18 and September 19, Moderna Museet Malmö will screen three films by Gunvor Nelson. Gunvor Nelson is one of the great pioneers of experimental film and today her films Schmeerguntz (1966) and Take Off (1972) are classics in the feminist experimental film movement. These two films will be screened together with My Name is Oona (1969) starting August 18 in the new gallery at Moderna Museet Malmö.
Gunvor Nelson (b. 1931) is one of the great pioneers of experimental film. In the mid-1960s, when she worked in the dynamic Bay Area in California, she was already using film as an artistic medium. Capturing everyday imagery and sounds with her camera, and combining them in a way that reformulated reality and dreams to suddenly reveal the commonplace from new perspectives. Her films can be compared to meticulously composed visual melodies that we can see over and over again and always
discover something new. For a couple of years Gunvor Nelson was a professor at the San Francisco Art Institute and during her time in the USA she became one of the key figures in the avant-garde film movement that emerged in California in the 1960s. In the early 1990s Gunvor Nelson returned to Sweden to her hometown, Kristinehamn, where she now lives and works. Over the years she has produced some twenty films that have won wide international acclaim.
Beside Schmeerguntz (1966), which became Gunvor Nelsons widely recognized debut film, My Name Is Oona (1969) and Take Off (1972) are also screened in the new gallery at Moderna Museet Malmö. All films that are screened are part of the Moderna Museet Collection, and the presentation is an extension of the exhibition SPECTACULAR TIMES: The 60s – the Moderna Museet Collection. The screenings last between August 18th and September 19th.
Press is welcome to the opening night of the film screening with Gunvor Nelson, 18 Augusti 7-9 pm at Moderna Museet Malmö. Gunvor Nelson will be present and John Sundholm, lecturer in film studies at Karlstad University and engaged in postgraduate studies in liberal arts at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, will talk about her oeuvre with the title “The Rhythm of Life”. The lecture will be held in Swedish.
RSVP to
pressavdelningen@modernamuseet.se by August 17.
More information about Gunvor Nelson at
Moderna Museet Malmö.
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