Lars Westman
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Lars Westman is a Swedish
film maker and cartoonist.
1963; art and advertising at Beckmans Reklamskola Stockholm 1964; and Swedish Television Producer-school 1969
He now has four children and nine grandchildren. He has worked for ten years as a typographer, and has been involved in filmmaking for nearly 50 years, primarily for television in Scandinavia. Broadcast more than 280 films in Sweden
, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, USA, satellite by Art and Discovery Channel. Three films for cinema in Scandinavia. Prizes in Canada, Germany, Bulgaria, Sweden, Brazil. Gained lifelong-stipendium for filmmakers in
Sweden by the Swedish Cultural Ministry. Bo Widerbergs prize for the total
production given by SVT, Swedish Filminstitute, Swedish Filmlaboratories, Swedish
Filmmakers Union.
has lived in West Africa
and made 20 films about struggle and culture in Africa. He
has depicted what the life of a seven years-old boy can be like if he is born with a
serious skin disease (The Fish Scale Disease) in VICTOR, A TRIUMPH. Together with
midwife Signe Jansson he made a film, often shown in maternity wards, whose aim is
to make our start in life easier: Birth. He has filmed underwater births in the
Soviet Union
, several programs on drought and starvation in Africa during 1970s,
several films about child development
I CAN, I TRY, I DEAR TO. A film about
calligraphy and the role of art in China FROM THE OLD COMES THE NEW. Followed
striking mineworkers in 1969-70 in COMRADES, OUR ENEMIES ARE WELLORGANIZED.
Portrayed a radioctive accident in Brazil I HAVE CECIUM IN MY BLOOD AND I AM SCARED.
As well the effect of Chernobyl accident
in Scandinavia LAPS, MOUNTAIN AND RAINDEER.
He filmed his mother's life and death during 20 years, FACING DEATH. The building of
the longest bridge in Europe between Sweden and Denmark WALKING ON WATER in six
years for cinema and television.
Films about art and poetry THE POETGENERAL, AMADO BAHIA, PICTURES UNDER THE SURFICE,
WHAT IS THE DRAGON DOING IN SWEDEN?, FROM THE OLD COMES THE NEW. About the MSTs
struggle for earth in Brasil OCUPAR, RESISTIR, PRODUZIR.
At present Lars Westman is filming the roots of Shulamusic in Bahia, a second film
about MST, following up the radioactiv accident in Goiania and a film about love for
Scandinavian television, THE LOVEFILM.
DESERT ISLAND 6 min Prize in Mamaia
THE BOX 5 min Prize in Mamaia
DOTS 20 min
BAKA BAKA LITEN KAKA 4 min 8 mm color
Animated black and white 16 mm films 1959-65
THE BRIDGEOPENER 40 min black and white 16 mm 1963
About Biafra and the Atom bomb in the small country Sweden.
TO NOT SPEAK ABOUT TARZAN 40 min black and white 16 mm 1966
Monkeys and human beings at the zoo.
THE TRUTH ABOUT BÅSTAD 48 min black and white 16 mm 1968 Quality Prize Swedish
Filminstitute
About a demonstration against apartheid
VIET ROCK 48 min black and white 16 mm 1967 Quality Prize Swedish Filminstitute
The work on a theater in Stockholm about Vietnam War.
WHAT DID THE CHINESe SAY?
Together with Sven Wernström 20 min black and white 16 mm 1963 First Prize Swedish
Television.
A Cartoonists life.
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? NOWHERE.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? NOTHING. 28 min black and white 16 mm1965.
A childs daily life. Fiction/documentary.
THE SCHOOL AT THE SEA
Together with Sven Wewrnström 28 min black and white 16 mm1966
Playa Giron
, Cuba.
THE SCHOOL IN THE MOUNTAIN
Together with Sven Wernström 28 min black and white 16 mm 1966
Sierra Maestra
Alfabetizasion in Cuba.
HABLA FIDEL
Together with Sven Wernström 28 min black and white 16 mm 1966
Fidel speaks to one million Cubans
at The Revolution Square Havana, Cuba
.
MAZORRA 58 min black and white 16 mm 1968
Mental Hospital
outside Havana, Cuba.
THE LINE
Workers situatione on L M Ericssons fabric in Sweden. 1969. Black and white 16 mm,
28 min.
SECUR?
SECURITAS and ABAB, two companies working with security in Sweden. 58 min 16 mm
color, 1970.
COMRADES, THE ENEMY IS WELLORGANIZED
Together with Lena Ewert 93 min. black and white 16 mmm/35 mm
First Prize in Porretta, Italy and Quality Prize Swedish Filminstitute.
About a strike in a mine in the north of Sweden.
30 YEARS HAS GONE COMRADES
Together with Fredrik Gertten, Uld Södergren.
Following up the strike 30 years later 1980 58 min video color
TACKÅSEN IS FORGOTTEN
Together with Mats Beckman 38 min black and white VIDEO1971
Migration to the citys.
LAVER
Together with Mats Beckman 38 min black and white VIDEO 1971
A mine forgotten.
ITS CHRISTMAS AGAIN. 20 min black and white 16 mm1971
A lonely mans Christmas.
YOUNG AND WILD
Together with Birgitta Bergmark 58 min black and white and color 16 mm and VIDEO 1972
Car-born youngsters.
BISHOP HILL 20 min color 16 mm 1974
Swedish emigrants in USA.
CHILDREN'S WORK
In the glass industries in Sweden. 16 mm black and white 28 min 1974
DRYNESS, FAMINE, OPRESSIONE
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman
48 min color 16 mm 1974
The Tuaregs situation in Sahel, 7 years without rain. Mali, Niger.
TANGOSI
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman 28 min color 16 mm 1974
Portrait on a tuareg woman in a starvation camp. Niger, Tchad.
JOSIAH WATERSELLER
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman 28 min color 16 mm 1974
Portrait of a man selling water in a slum area in Nima Accra Ghana.
CACAO
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman 28 min color 16 mm 1974
Portrait of a girl working with cacao, Ghana
MARIAMA
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman 28 min color 16 mm 1977
portrait of a girl in slum area Gambia
CORA 55 min color 16 mm 1977
Music film about the Griot Historyteller. Gambia
FULA 55 min color 16 mm 1977
Fula tribes music in Gambia.
FOOD AS A WEAPON 48 min color 16 mm 1977
Senegals biggest farmer and supermarketowner, alebanes family uses the drought
situatione to enlarge his company.
RESISTENS, BALANG BAA NYANJI 48 min color 16 mm 1981
A Coup D'état in Senegambia.
THE RAPE OF NIMBA
Together with Alf Westman 58 min color 16 mm 1980
Portrait of a black supervisor in the Swedish owned mine Lamco, Liberia.
IMAGES OF AFRICA
Together with Dan Schyman 5 - 12 min color Betacam 1996
13 short films
about dans, music, magic, theater, rituals, writings, songs
and contemporary art
for a Congress in Denmark.
Ivory Coast, Benin, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa.
PICTURES UNDER THE SURFACE 48 min color Betacam 1997
A CROQUI-LESSON 28 min color Betacam 1978
During ten years collected material on the process of making art
with famous Swedish concretist Lennart Rodhe.
WHAT IS THE DRAGON DOING IN SWEDEN?
Together with Lars Berglund 58 min color Betacam1987
A chines Calligrapher living and teaching in Stockholm, Sweden
.
OUT FROM THE OLD COMES THE NEW.
Together with Pierre Björklund, Lars Berglund 58 min color Betacam 1987
Chines calligraphy and painting artist make art in front of the camera.
WHAT WE SOW WE HARVESTS. 48 min color 16 mm 1987
Uranium mining
in Sweden.
ALERT! 58 min color 16 mm 1988
After Harrisburg nuclear accident
, the security plans around the nuclear plant
Barsebäck in Sweden and Denmark.
LAPS, MOUNTAINS, REINDEER. 28 min color 16 mm 1988
The effects on Sweden by the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
THE BIRTH
Together with Gudrun Schyman.
My sons birth 1979. 58 min color 16 mm. 58 min.
I TRY, I CAN, I DEAR,
Five films 28 min color video
about the first years progress to learn to sit, walk, eat, talk of my sons life, 1980.
DAYCARE CENTER
One year about children's contradictions, color video 90 min. 1983.
AROUND THE WORLD
Together with Janne Forsell 1989-1997 42 films 28 min color Betcam
Poetic documentaries about food, music, art, religione, streets and roads, citys and
villages in
GREECE, EGYPT, INDIA, PAKISTAN, MONGOLIA, VIET NAM
, THAILAND, CHINA, BALI,SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, SWEDEN DALARNA, AUSTRALIA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, BORNEO, VANUATU,HAWAII, USA, ALASKA, SOUTH DAKOTA, MEXICO, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, PERU, CHILE, CUBA, TRINIDAD, CAMEROUN, BURKINA FASO, MADAGASCAR,TANZANIA,FRANCE, ITALY, PORTUGAL, SCOTLAND
, SPAIN, ALBANIA, BULGARIA, RUMANIA
, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA.
URUGUAI-MALMOE
Together with Fredrik Gertten 55 min color Betacam 1998
Emigrants life in Sweden and Uruguai.
SAMBAFOOTBALL
Together with Fredrik Ekelund 55 min color DVCam 1998
The history of Brazilian football and how to save treetchildrens life.
WALKING ON WATER
Together with Fredrik Gertten 93 min color DVCam/35 mm 2000
Building of a bridge Sweden-Denmark during sex years.
THE POETRYGENERAL
Together with Fredrik Gertten 55 min color DVCam 2002
portrait of the poetry festival in Malmoe, Sweden and the manager of the festival
Lasse Söderberg.
SILHOUETTE, AN AFRICAN JOURNEY
Together with Fredrik Gertten 48 min color DVCam 2002
A Swedish dans company in Tanzania.
RUA PAPA URBANO/ SAO PAULO II 26 min color DVCam 2003
A woman living in slum area in Salvador, Bahia
. Honorary Prize in Cine Eco Festival
Portugal.
LULA, WE WANT LAND
and
AS LONG AS HUNGER EXIST
Together with Lennart Kjörling 50 min color 2006-2008
The MST struggle for bread and earth in Brasil.
CESIUM IN MY BLOOD
Together with Zenildo Barretto 55 min color 2007
Following up of the Goiania radioactive accident 1987
DO YOU LOVE ME?
Together with Niels-Pagh Andersen, Thomas Stenderup 55 min color 2006
My love relationes in my life.
GARRINCHA AND HOT DOGS
Together with Fredrik Ekelund 55 min color 2007
Football player Garrincha
's Swedish son take up the roots.
AMA DO JORGE
The Brazilian writer Jorge Amado
's work and life and death. 50 min video 2000.
ELEGY
A tribute to violinista Nicanor Teixeira's music in Rio de Janeiro
2009 color video
59 min.
The connection with African traditional art
and Picasso, Matisse etc.
Master Class
of Lutaplaying.
Alex Haley
's lies and the African history
.
My father's life and Sweden's Schizophrenia.
The war on the water resources.
A forest once upon a time.
Jonas Hellborg
's music and life in USA, Syria, Sweden, India.
Lennart Rodhe
's and Gustav Courbet's art.
The roots of Samba
in Bahia, Brazil.
A adopted Brazilian girl's life in Sweden.
With singer Sven Kristersson. 2009
About cancer and leukemia
in Sweden after Chernobyl
accident.
People sleeping around the world.
Funeral ceremonies around the world.
A miners life in north in Sweden.
Slave history and ceremonies in Bahia Brazil.
Poetic film about rain in tropic countries.
My three year old son's thoughts and questiones.
About the first political refugees after World War II
in Sweden.
Roadmovie in Brasil.
The Swedish writer Sara Lidman
's poetical struggle.
A tribute to violinist Nicanor Teixeira's music in Rio de Janeiro 2009.
My father's life and Sweden's schizophrenia.
Following my children's love affairs during 50 years. 90 min
What are the US doing in Liberia
?
Retrospective around the world. 3 hours video color.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
film maker and cartoonist.
Life and work
Westman was born in the north of Sweden. He studied art (Kursverksamheten) at University of StockholmStockholm University
Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...
1963; art and advertising at Beckmans Reklamskola Stockholm 1964; and Swedish Television Producer-school 1969
He now has four children and nine grandchildren. He has worked for ten years as a typographer, and has been involved in filmmaking for nearly 50 years, primarily for television in Scandinavia. Broadcast more than 280 films in Sweden
Cinema of Sweden
Swedish cinema is known as producing many critically acclaimed movies, and during the 20th century was the most prominent of Scandinavia. This is largely due to the popularity and prominence of the directors Ingmar Bergman, Victor Sjöström, and more recently Lasse Hallström and Lukas...
, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, USA, satellite by Art and Discovery Channel. Three films for cinema in Scandinavia. Prizes in Canada, Germany, Bulgaria, Sweden, Brazil. Gained lifelong-stipendium for filmmakers in
Sweden by the Swedish Cultural Ministry. Bo Widerbergs prize for the total
production given by SVT, Swedish Filminstitute, Swedish Filmlaboratories, Swedish
Filmmakers Union.
Filmography (selected)
- 1966: Habla Fidel (director)
- 1968: Sanningen om Båstad (director)
- 1970: Kamrater, motståndaren är välorganiserad (director, cinematographer & editor)
- 1994: Maria och kärleken (cinematographer)
- 2000: Gå på vatten (director & cinematographer)
Filmmaking
One of the projects, a series entitled AROUND THE WORLD took him to 42 countries.Hehas lived in West Africa
West Africa
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...
and made 20 films about struggle and culture in Africa. He
has depicted what the life of a seven years-old boy can be like if he is born with a
serious skin disease (The Fish Scale Disease) in VICTOR, A TRIUMPH. Together with
midwife Signe Jansson he made a film, often shown in maternity wards, whose aim is
to make our start in life easier: Birth. He has filmed underwater births in the
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
, several programs on drought and starvation in Africa during 1970s,
several films about child development
Child development
Child development stages describe theoretical milestones of child development. Many stage models of development have been proposed, used as working concepts and in some cases asserted as nativist theories....
I CAN, I TRY, I DEAR TO. A film about
calligraphy and the role of art in China FROM THE OLD COMES THE NEW. Followed
striking mineworkers in 1969-70 in COMRADES, OUR ENEMIES ARE WELLORGANIZED.
Portrayed a radioctive accident in Brazil I HAVE CECIUM IN MY BLOOD AND I AM SCARED.
As well the effect of Chernobyl accident
Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine , which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities in Moscow...
in Scandinavia LAPS, MOUNTAIN AND RAINDEER.
He filmed his mother's life and death during 20 years, FACING DEATH. The building of
the longest bridge in Europe between Sweden and Denmark WALKING ON WATER in six
years for cinema and television.
Films about art and poetry THE POETGENERAL, AMADO BAHIA, PICTURES UNDER THE SURFICE,
WHAT IS THE DRAGON DOING IN SWEDEN?, FROM THE OLD COMES THE NEW. About the MSTs
struggle for earth in Brasil OCUPAR, RESISTIR, PRODUZIR.
At present Lars Westman is filming the roots of Shulamusic in Bahia, a second film
about MST, following up the radioactiv accident in Goiania and a film about love for
Scandinavian television, THE LOVEFILM.
Some of the films
TELEVISION 6 minDESERT ISLAND 6 min Prize in Mamaia
THE BOX 5 min Prize in Mamaia
DOTS 20 min
BAKA BAKA LITEN KAKA 4 min 8 mm color
Animated black and white 16 mm films 1959-65
THE BRIDGEOPENER 40 min black and white 16 mm 1963
About Biafra and the Atom bomb in the small country Sweden.
TO NOT SPEAK ABOUT TARZAN 40 min black and white 16 mm 1966
Monkeys and human beings at the zoo.
THE TRUTH ABOUT BÅSTAD 48 min black and white 16 mm 1968 Quality Prize Swedish
Filminstitute
About a demonstration against apartheid
VIET ROCK 48 min black and white 16 mm 1967 Quality Prize Swedish Filminstitute
The work on a theater in Stockholm about Vietnam War.
WHAT DID THE CHINESe SAY?
Together with Sven Wernström 20 min black and white 16 mm 1963 First Prize Swedish
Television.
A Cartoonists life.
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? NOWHERE.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? NOTHING. 28 min black and white 16 mm1965.
A childs daily life. Fiction/documentary.
THE SCHOOL AT THE SEA
Together with Sven Wewrnström 28 min black and white 16 mm1966
Playa Giron
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was re-assigned to Matanzas Province, when the original six provinces of Cuba were re-organized into...
, Cuba.
THE SCHOOL IN THE MOUNTAIN
Together with Sven Wernström 28 min black and white 16 mm 1966
Sierra Maestra
Sierra Maestra
Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province from what is now Guantánamo Province to Niquero in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. Some view it as a series of connecting ranges , which joins with others extending to the west...
Alfabetizasion in Cuba.
HABLA FIDEL
Together with Sven Wernström 28 min black and white 16 mm 1966
Fidel speaks to one million Cubans
at The Revolution Square Havana, Cuba
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
.
MAZORRA 58 min black and white 16 mm 1968
Mental Hospital
Psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, are hospitals specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders. Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and grading. Some hospitals may specialise only in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients...
outside Havana, Cuba.
THE LINE
Workers situatione on L M Ericssons fabric in Sweden. 1969. Black and white 16 mm,
28 min.
SECUR?
SECURITAS and ABAB, two companies working with security in Sweden. 58 min 16 mm
color, 1970.
COMRADES, THE ENEMY IS WELLORGANIZED
Together with Lena Ewert 93 min. black and white 16 mmm/35 mm
First Prize in Porretta, Italy and Quality Prize Swedish Filminstitute.
About a strike in a mine in the north of Sweden.
30 YEARS HAS GONE COMRADES
Together with Fredrik Gertten, Uld Södergren.
Following up the strike 30 years later 1980 58 min video color
TACKÅSEN IS FORGOTTEN
Together with Mats Beckman 38 min black and white VIDEO1971
Migration to the citys.
LAVER
Together with Mats Beckman 38 min black and white VIDEO 1971
A mine forgotten.
ITS CHRISTMAS AGAIN. 20 min black and white 16 mm1971
A lonely mans Christmas.
YOUNG AND WILD
Together with Birgitta Bergmark 58 min black and white and color 16 mm and VIDEO 1972
Car-born youngsters.
BISHOP HILL 20 min color 16 mm 1974
Swedish emigrants in USA.
CHILDREN'S WORK
In the glass industries in Sweden. 16 mm black and white 28 min 1974
DRYNESS, FAMINE, OPRESSIONE
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman
Gudrun Schyman
Gudrun Schyman is a Swedish politician. She served as leader of the Swedish Left Party from 1993 until January 2003. She remained a member of the Left Party until 2004, when she left to focus entirely on her feminist political work...
48 min color 16 mm 1974
The Tuaregs situation in Sahel, 7 years without rain. Mali, Niger.
TANGOSI
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman 28 min color 16 mm 1974
Portrait on a tuareg woman in a starvation camp. Niger, Tchad.
JOSIAH WATERSELLER
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman 28 min color 16 mm 1974
Portrait of a man selling water in a slum area in Nima Accra Ghana.
CACAO
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman 28 min color 16 mm 1974
Portrait of a girl working with cacao, Ghana
MARIAMA
Together with Björn Kumm, Gudrun Schyman 28 min color 16 mm 1977
portrait of a girl in slum area Gambia
CORA 55 min color 16 mm 1977
Music film about the Griot Historyteller. Gambia
FULA 55 min color 16 mm 1977
Fula tribes music in Gambia.
FOOD AS A WEAPON 48 min color 16 mm 1977
Senegals biggest farmer and supermarketowner, alebanes family uses the drought
situatione to enlarge his company.
RESISTENS, BALANG BAA NYANJI 48 min color 16 mm 1981
A Coup D'état in Senegambia.
THE RAPE OF NIMBA
Together with Alf Westman 58 min color 16 mm 1980
Portrait of a black supervisor in the Swedish owned mine Lamco, Liberia.
IMAGES OF AFRICA
Together with Dan Schyman 5 - 12 min color Betacam 1996
13 short films
Short subject
A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
about dans, music, magic, theater, rituals, writings, songs
and contemporary art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
for a Congress in Denmark.
Ivory Coast, Benin, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa.
PICTURES UNDER THE SURFACE 48 min color Betacam 1997
A CROQUI-LESSON 28 min color Betacam 1978
During ten years collected material on the process of making art
with famous Swedish concretist Lennart Rodhe.
WHAT IS THE DRAGON DOING IN SWEDEN?
Together with Lars Berglund 58 min color Betacam1987
A chines Calligrapher living and teaching in Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
.
OUT FROM THE OLD COMES THE NEW.
Together with Pierre Björklund, Lars Berglund 58 min color Betacam 1987
Chines calligraphy and painting artist make art in front of the camera.
WHAT WE SOW WE HARVESTS. 48 min color 16 mm 1987
Uranium mining
Uranium mining
Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. The worldwide production of uranium in 2009 amounted to 50,572 tonnes, of which 27% was mined in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia are the top three producers and together account for 63% of world uranium...
in Sweden.
ALERT! 58 min color 16 mm 1988
After Harrisburg nuclear accident
Nuclear and radiation accidents
A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency as "an event that has led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the facility...
, the security plans around the nuclear plant
Nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. As in a conventional thermal power station the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to a generator which produces electricity.Nuclear power plants are usually...
Barsebäck in Sweden and Denmark.
LAPS, MOUNTAINS, REINDEER. 28 min color 16 mm 1988
The effects on Sweden by the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
THE BIRTH
Together with Gudrun Schyman.
My sons birth 1979. 58 min color 16 mm. 58 min.
I TRY, I CAN, I DEAR,
Five films 28 min color video
about the first years progress to learn to sit, walk, eat, talk of my sons life, 1980.
DAYCARE CENTER
One year about children's contradictions, color video 90 min. 1983.
AROUND THE WORLD
Together with Janne Forsell 1989-1997 42 films 28 min color Betcam
Poetic documentaries about food, music, art, religione, streets and roads, citys and
villages in
GREECE, EGYPT, INDIA, PAKISTAN, MONGOLIA, VIET NAM
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, THAILAND, CHINA, BALI,SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, SWEDEN DALARNA, AUSTRALIA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, BORNEO, VANUATU,HAWAII, USA, ALASKA, SOUTH DAKOTA, MEXICO, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, PERU, CHILE, CUBA, TRINIDAD, CAMEROUN, BURKINA FASO, MADAGASCAR,TANZANIA,FRANCE, ITALY, PORTUGAL, SCOTLAND
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, SPAIN, ALBANIA, BULGARIA, RUMANIA
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA.
URUGUAI-MALMOE
Together with Fredrik Gertten 55 min color Betacam 1998
Emigrants life in Sweden and Uruguai.
SAMBAFOOTBALL
Together with Fredrik Ekelund 55 min color DVCam 1998
The history of Brazilian football and how to save treetchildrens life.
WALKING ON WATER
Together with Fredrik Gertten 93 min color DVCam/35 mm 2000
Building of a bridge Sweden-Denmark during sex years.
THE POETRYGENERAL
Together with Fredrik Gertten 55 min color DVCam 2002
portrait of the poetry festival in Malmoe, Sweden and the manager of the festival
Lasse Söderberg.
SILHOUETTE, AN AFRICAN JOURNEY
Together with Fredrik Gertten 48 min color DVCam 2002
A Swedish dans company in Tanzania.
RUA PAPA URBANO/ SAO PAULO II 26 min color DVCam 2003
A woman living in slum area in Salvador, Bahia
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...
. Honorary Prize in Cine Eco Festival
Portugal.
LULA, WE WANT LAND
and
AS LONG AS HUNGER EXIST
Together with Lennart Kjörling 50 min color 2006-2008
The MST struggle for bread and earth in Brasil.
CESIUM IN MY BLOOD
Together with Zenildo Barretto 55 min color 2007
Following up of the Goiania radioactive accident 1987
DO YOU LOVE ME?
Together with Niels-Pagh Andersen, Thomas Stenderup 55 min color 2006
My love relationes in my life.
GARRINCHA AND HOT DOGS
Together with Fredrik Ekelund 55 min color 2007
Football player Garrincha
Garrincha
Manuel Francisco dos Santos , known by the nickname "Garrincha" , was an association football right winger and forward who helped the Brazil national team win the World Cups of 1958 and 1962. He played the majority of his professional career for Brazilian club Botafogo.The word garrincha itself...
's Swedish son take up the roots.
AMA DO JORGE
The Brazilian writer Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands in 1978...
's work and life and death. 50 min video 2000.
ELEGY
A tribute to violinista Nicanor Teixeira's music in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
2009 color video
59 min.
Own work
- THE WONDERFUL SOURCE 48 min color Betacam filmed 1987
The connection with African traditional art
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and Picasso, Matisse etc.
- LUTALuteLute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
58 min color Betacam filmed 1987
Master Class
Master class
A master class is a class given to students of a particular discipline by an expert of that discipline—usually music, but also painting, drama, or any of the arts....
of Lutaplaying.
- ROOTS OF THE SLAVERY
Alex Haley
Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an African-American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the coauthor of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.-Early life:...
's lies and the African history
History of Africa
The history of Africa begins with the prehistory of Africa and the emergence of Homo sapiens in East Africa, continuing into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. Agriculture began about 10,000 BCE and metallurgy in about 4000 BCE. The history of early...
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- SCHIZOPHRENIA
My father's life and Sweden's Schizophrenia.
- CLIMATE CHANGE
The war on the water resources.
- MATA ATLANTICA
A forest once upon a time.
- BASS MUSIC
Jonas Hellborg
Jonas Hellborg
Jonas Hellborg is a Swedish bass guitarist. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Ustad Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Bill Laswell, Shawn Lane, Jens Johansson, Michael Shrieve, V. Selvaganesh, Mattias IA Eklundh and Buckethead....
's music and life in USA, Syria, Sweden, India.
- CROSS AND VAGINA
Lennart Rodhe
Lennart Rodhe
Lennart Rodhe was a Swedish artist, painter and printmaker.Lennart Rodhe enrolled as a student in 1934 at Edward Berggrens studio at Tekniska skolan in Stockholm, and studied under Peter Rostrup-Boyesen i Köpenhamn and at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm 1938-44 with Sven...
's and Gustav Courbet's art.
- SAMBABLUES
The roots of Samba
Samba
Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...
in Bahia, Brazil.
- MARIA AND HER LOVE
A adopted Brazilian girl's life in Sweden.
- ART AS SCIENCE
With singer Sven Kristersson. 2009
- TO LIVE WITH RADIOACTIVITY
About cancer and leukemia
Leukemia
Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...
in Sweden after Chernobyl
Chernobyl
Chernobyl or Chornobyl is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative centre of the Chernobyl Raion since 1932....
accident.
- SLEEP
People sleeping around the world.
- FUNERAL
Funeral ceremonies around the world.
- HADAR'S TESTIMONY
A miners life in north in Sweden.
- MACUMBA
Slave history and ceremonies in Bahia Brazil.
- RAIN
Poetic film about rain in tropic countries.
- WHAT DO YOU THINK?
My three year old son's thoughts and questiones.
- IN A REFUGEE'S FOOTSTEPS
About the first political refugees after World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
in Sweden.
Roadmovie in Brasil.
- IN THE COW'S EYES
The Swedish writer Sara Lidman
Sara Lidman
Sara Lidman was a Swedish writer.Born in the village Missenträsk in the northern parts of Skellefteå Municipality, Lidman was raised in the Västerbotten region of northern Sweden. She studied at the University of Uppsala where her studies were interrupted by her receiving tuberculosis...
's poetical struggle.
- ELEGY
A tribute to violinist Nicanor Teixeira's music in Rio de Janeiro 2009.
- SCHIZOPHRENIA
My father's life and Sweden's schizophrenia.
- CHILDREN'S LOVE
Following my children's love affairs during 50 years. 90 min
- LIBERTY
What are the US doing in Liberia
Liberia
Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...
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- WHAT MY EYES HAVE SEEN
Retrospective around the world. 3 hours video color.