Fragment of a filmmaker's work: Gunvor Nelson
Tuesday, August 23rd, 14:45h, Room 3
Wednesday, August 24th, 15:00h, Room 4
Lussas - France

Lussas' Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire festival (August 21-27) presents a partial retrospective of Swedish filmmaker Gunvor Nelson. Curated by Federico Rossin, the retrospective covers the main themes of her work, from her seminal My name is Oona (1967), one of her earlier and most known works, the impressive and deeply personal Red Shift or her recent video-exploration True to Life.

Swedish-American artist Gunvor Nelson is among the most important experimental filmmakers of her generation. Shaped by the San Francisco Bay Area scene in the fifties and sixties, she has had an enormous influence on American avant-garde film since her debut in 1965. The basic subjects of her personal, dreamlike and tactile filmmaking are: childhood, memory, the idea of home/homeland and displacement, aging and death, the female body, the material beauty of natural forces. Gunvor Nelson is one of the few Swedish artists who have been honoured with a retrospective at MOMA in New York (2006).

Click the link to read am interview to Gunvor Nelson