The backs of people sitting in the museum cinema — Film still from The Offspring Resembles the Parent, 2015, Lina Selander and Oscar Mangione. Photo: My Matson/Moderna Museet

The Film Club

Films and discussions

Stockholm

The Film Club features films and discussions. See films on the boundary between art and documentary. Often, the artist or director will take part in discussions after the screenings. Welcome!

Programme: The Film Club

Autumn 2024

Sunday 10 November 2024

Occupied City (2023, 262 min)
by Steve McQueen

See the Swedish premiere of Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen’s documentary “Occupied City”. The film takes us through the streets of Amsterdam where the traces of the Nazi occupation are still visible – from persecution to resistance. “Occupied City” is shown exclusively at Moderna Museet during a full day event and is followed by a panel discussion with the director.

Read more: The Film Club: Steve McQueen

Friday 4 October 2024

The Film Club: Pontus Hultén, the Successes and the Brillo Scandal (2024, 58 min)
by Ann-Linn Guillou

In the documentary “Pontus Hultén: The Successes and the Brillo Scandal” by Ann-Linn Guillou, Hultén’s great successes and influence are depicted – but also the controversial scandal surrounding Andy Warhol’s “Brillo Boxes”.

Spring 2024

Friday 26 April 2024

Joonam (100 min, 2023)
by Sierra Urich

In collaboration with Salam Cinema. After the screening, Parisa Amiri, freelance journalist, Talieh Ashjari, Director of diversity at the county board of Västra Götaland, Nadi Tofighian, researcher and lecturer in film studies at Linné University, and Sara Recabarren, freelance journalist, will be in conversation.

Read more: The Film Club: Joonam

Friday 8 March 2024

Silphium (22 min, 2014)
The Offspring Resembles the Parent (13:40 min, 2015)
by Lina Selander in collaboration with Oscar Mangione

In collaboration with Tempo Documentary Festival. After the screening, Lina Selander and film curator Martin Grennberger will be in conversation

Autumn 2023

Friday 8 December 18–19.45

Bodily Remains (63 min, 2023)

The screening follows by a talk between Blaise Kirschner, professor in moving image at the Royal Institute of Art and the director Tai Shani over a video link.

Read more: The Film Club: Bodily Remains

Saturday 18 November 13–15

STHLM Shorts

In collaboration with Stockholm International Film Festival. Five shorts by film directors Pedro Costa, Nemo Arancibia, Atshushi Hirai, Xiaoxuan Jiang and Ross McClean are featured at Moderna Museet in the course of an afternoon. The screening is followed by a talk with the director Atshushi Hirai.

The films are not subtitled. Sweets are available.

Read more: The Film Club: STHLM Shorts

Friday 27 October 18–20

New Beijing, New Marriage (18 min, 2009)
The Drum Tower (18 min, 2018)
Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (2 min, 2020)
Wegen Hegel (14 min, 2023)
by Popo Fan
The Cinema, floor 2

The screenings are followed by a conversation between Popo Fan and Ming Wong, professor of performance in the expanded field at the Royal Institute of Art.

Read more: The Film Club: Popo Fan

Saturday 21 October 17.30-20

The Society of the Spectacle (90 min, 2023)
by Roxy Farhat and Göran Hugo Olsson
The Cinema, floor 2

Roxy Farhat and Göran Hugo Olsson will introduce their film. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session, facilitated by Lena Essling of Moderna Museet.

Friday 6 October 17.30-20

This World is Not My Own (97 min, 2023)
by Marquise Stillwell and Petter Ringbom
Zita Folkets Bio, Birger Jarlsgatan 37, Stockholm

The evening starts with drinks, after the screening the film’s director Petter Ringbom talks to Moderna Museet’s Camilla Carlberg.

Spring 2023

Tuesday 2 May 18–19.45

E-Ticket (13 min. 2019)
Signal 8 (14 min. 2019)
-force- (9 min. 2020)
Happy Valley (13 min. 2020)
Devil’s Peak (30 min. 2022)
by Simon Liu (New York, Hongkong)
The Cinema, floor 2

After the film screenings, Simon Liu will join us from in a video talk with Benjamin Gerdes, Senior Lecturer at the Royal Institute of Arts.

Friday 10 March 2023 at 18-20

Foragers (64 min, 2022)
by Jumana Manna
The Cinema, floor 2

After the film screening, Jumana Manna will join us from Berlin, in a video talk with Moderna Museet’s curator Hendrik Folkerts.

Friday 27 January at 18-20

One Image, Two Acts (48 min, 2020)
by Sanaz Sohrabi (Canada, Iran)
Subtotals (15 min, 2021)
by Mohammadreza Farzad (Iran)
Cinema Rex: A Story of Fire and Projection (ca 25 min, 2017) – Lecture-performance
by Azin Feizabadi
The Cinema, floor 2

Poet and writer Athena Farrokhzad opens the screening with a poetry reading.

Autumn 2022

Friday 25 November at 18–20

Cy Dear (90 min, 2019)
by Andrea Bettinetti
The Auditorium, floor 2

After the screening, the film’s director Andrea Bettinetti and its producer Michele Bongiorno will take part in a public talk facilitated by Elisabeth Millqvist, director of Moderna Museet Malmö.

Friday 21 October at 16.30-20

Mato Seco em Chamas (Dry Ground Burning)(153 min, 2022)
by Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós
The Cinema, floor 2

Friday 7 October at 17.30-19.45

Remote (90 min, 2022)
by Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi
The Cinema, floor 2

The film screening is followed by a talk between Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi and Moderna Museet curator Hendrik Folkerts.

Spring 2022

Friday 25 february at 18–20.30

Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free (83 min, 1982)
by Squat Theatre (Budapest/New York City)
The Auditorium, floor 2

The film screening is followed by a conversation with the artist collective coyote about collective work as an artistic method.

Organised in collaboration with coyote and The Royal Institute of Art.

Sunday 13 march at 14-15.30

Dear Dancer (23 min, 2022)
by Marcus Lindeen (Paris/Stockholm)
The Auditorium, floor 2

The film screening is followed by a conversation with the film director.

Organised in collaboration with Cullberg and Tempo Documentary Festival.

Friday 25 march at 18-20

One Big Bag (40 min, 2021)
by Every Ocean Hughes (Stockholm)
The Auditorium, floor 2

The film screening is followed by a conversation with Every Ocean Hughes and Mason Leaver-Yap, curator.

The exhibition “Alive time” by Every Ocean Hughes takes place March 1 – April 17, 2022.

Saturday 23 april at 11–21

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (480 min, 2020)
by Anders Edström och C.W. Winter (Stockholm/Oxford)
The Cinema, floor 2

The film is 8 hours long, three breaks are included in the film screening. The film directors will participate.

Friday 29 april at 18-20

Skinn & Lak (3 min, 2001) – Performance, video
Mr. Piano and Mrs. Pile (36 min, 2004) – Performance, video installation
Object Species (30 min, 2021) – Lecture-performance
by Egill Sæbjörnsson (Berlin/Reykjavík)
The Auditorium, floor 2

Friday 13 may at 18-20

Somniculus (14 min, 2017)
Petrified (13 min, 2016)
Water Blues (30 min, 2018) – Lecture-performance
by Ali Cherri (Beirut/Paris)
The Auditorium, floor 2

Organised in collaboration with MDT.

Become a member!

Do you want information about the Film Club and our screenings? Become a member! Membership is free. Become a member by sending your name and email address to filmklubben@modernamuseet.se (membership communication is in Swedish).

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About the Film Club

The Film Club resurrected in 2018 and presents films on the boundary between art and documentary. Often, the artist or director will take part in discussions after the screenings.

Film has had a prominent position at the Museum since the start. The Moderna Museet Film Club has existed since the Museum opened in 1958, showing everything from children’s matinees to the latest experimental art films.

During the 1990’s and early 2000’s the museum presented international artists in the series Contemporary Film and Video. Other screening have often been held in connection with exhibitions at the museum or in collaboration with The Royal Academy of Art, Filmform, Cinemateket, Tempo Documentary Film Festival, Cinemafrica, Stockholm’s Feminist Film Festival, among others.