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SOCIAL & PROTEST FILM
\n<\/b> <\/b> <\/b> <\/b> <\/b> <\/b>Sunday 24 November 2002, at 3:30pm
\nGateshead BALTIC Centre
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In the 1960s, Sweden had an active counterculture of artistic events and protest happenings, of which film was an important part. En Svensk Tiger<\/i> is a critical montage of newspaper headlines and the national flag, while Nixon Visions<\/i> animates Kjartan Slettemark\u2019s satirical advertising campaign depicting the US President. \u00d6yvind Fahlstr\u00f6m\u2019s U-barn<\/i> is an absurd and surreal montage of found-footage, concerning psychedelic drug use and children\u2019s education. Capitalism is attacked in the punk Coca Strip<\/i>, while Mass or Monument<\/i>, made in mid-70s London, is a multi-layered study of the impersonal modern city. Peter Weiss\u2019 Enligt Lag<\/i> (According to Law<\/em>) frankly documents life inside a juvenile reform school in the 1950s.<\/p>\n Eric M. Nilsson, En Svensk Tiger, 1970, colour, silent, 3m<\/strong>
\nHans Esselius & Kjartan Slettemark, Nixon Visions, 1969, colour, sound, 4m<\/strong>
\n\u00d6yvind Fahlstr\u00f6m, U-barn, 1968, b\/w & colour, sound, 25m<\/strong>
\nOlle Hedman, Coca Strip, 1984-85, b\/w, sound, 6m<\/strong>
\n\u00c5sa Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m, Mass or Monument for a Capitalist Society, 1976, b\/w, sound, 14m<\/strong>
\nPeter Weiss, Enligt Lag, 1957, b\/w, sound, 20m<\/strong><\/p>\n