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\u00d6YVIND FAHLSTROM & SWEDISH AVANT-GARDE FILM<\/strong> Since the 1950s, the artist \u00d6yvind Fahlstr\u00f6m pursued an interest in the moving image. The use of illustration and collage in his paintings and graphic work show a clear affinity to cinema and the use of film as a means of artistic expression. He was an active member of Arbetsgruppen F\u00f6r Film (aka Filmform); an artist-led organisation dedicated to the production and promotion of avant-garde film, and made experimental tv documentaries, home movies and the radical feature film Du Gamla Du Fria<\/i> (which takes its name from the Swedish national anthem).<\/p>\n One of the earliest films ever made by an artist was Symphonie<\/i> Diagonale <\/i>by the Swedish painter Viking Eggeling in the early 1920s, but independent film did not become established in Sweden until the post-war period, at which time personal psychodramas and city symphonies were made by filmmakers such as G\u00f6sta Werner, Peter Weiss and Nils J\u00f6nsson.<\/p>\n Avant-garde film flourished as a potent artform in the 1960s counterculture. The artists \u00c5ke Karlung and Erling Johansson made extraordinary films as part of their wider creative practice, using animation to assemble mixtures of painting, sculpture and live action. Other filmmakers, including Hans Esselius and Jan H\u00e5fstr\u00f6m used cinema to make potent social commentary, attacking the modern political and industrial establishment. Fahlstr\u00f6m himself made the satirical, psychedelic found-footage film U-barn<\/i> for the Swedish Film Institute. In the 70s and 80s, \u00c5sa Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m, Olle Hedman Anne-Sofi Sid\u00e9n and others continued to experiment with the medium as a punk ethos brought the work back-to-basics.<\/p>\n The artist Gunvor Nelson lived and worked in San Francisco for many years, though she never lost her close connection to the culture and character of her birthplace. Gunvor will be at BALTIC to present two programmes of her work, featuring both her unique collage techniques and her deeply personal films about family relationships.<\/p>\n In this brief history of the Swedish avant-garde, examples of Fahlstr\u00f6m\u2019s own work will be shown alongside rare screenings of films by those who still remain widely unknown outside their homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oyvind-fahlstrom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n14 October\u201324 November 2002<\/strong>
\n Gateshead BALTIC Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n