Spannungsfelder

Tagning Narkomaner Peter Weiss, SE 1960, 16 mm, 6 min
Förvandla Sverige Jan Lindqvist, Stefan Jarl, SE 1974, 16 mm, 30 min. Swedish with English UT ☼
Renslakt vid Krutvattnet Louise O'Konor, SE 1967, 16 mm, 6 min
Russelltribunalen Staffan Lamm, SE 2004, 35 mm, 10 min. Swedish with English version ☼
Mass - Monument for a Capitalist Society Åsa Sjöström, SE 1976, 16 mm, 14 min

As in other countries, politically engaged cinema emerged in Sweden at the end of the 1960s with the establishment of the FilmCentrum distribution collective and the Folkets bio distribution company. Stefan Jarl and Jan Lindqvist were two key players in this milieu, and their unfinished film Förvandla Sverige remains one of the most harrowing depictions of the effects of social democratic capitalism in Sweden. This work will be shown alongside films dealing with national (O'Konor's Renslakt vid Krutvattnet), international (Lamm's Russeltribunalen) and global conflicts (Sjöström's Mass - Monument for a Capitalist Society). (Stefan Ramstedt / Martin Grennberger)

In the presence of Stefan Ramstedt and Martin Grennberger

Photo: Stiftelsen Filmforum