Utveckling?/Evolution? (Sven Elfström, 1971)
After a two year break AVANT reopens with a program on amateur film. The program takes place on October 23 & 24 in Karlstad, Sweden.
A substantial part of the program consists of a retrospective with films by full-time industrial worker Sven Elfström. Elfström made experimental shorts, political documentaries and fiction films in his spare time.
The veterans from Vienna, Lisl Ponger and Tim Sharp, and the Finnish filmmaker Sami van Ingen exhibit work that they have made from amateur footage; revealing hidden histories and forgotten fantasies.
AVANT09: AVANT goes AMATEUR is a collaboration between the Värmland Region’s Centres for Film and Dance, Broby Grafiska, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Kristinehamn, Film Studies at Karlstad University and the Filmform foundation.
The event is free of charge but booking is mandatory.
Friday 23.10
18.00
Sneak Preview: Reinhold Holtermann & Sven Elfström
Holterman:
- Stockholmsbilder, experiment/Images of Stockholm, Experiment (1929) 7 min., DVD.
- Baptistdop i Bohuslän/Baptism in Bohuslän (early 1930s) 3 min., DVD.
- Berlin, Milano 1938 (1938) 5 min., DVD.
Elfström:
- Cykel/Bicycle (1967) 10 min., 16 mm.
- Arbetarna/The Workers (1971) 17 min, 16 mm.
- Skyddet/The Protection (1968) 14 min., 16 mm.
Saturday 24.10
10.00
Opening
- Vem äger filmen?/Who Owns the Film?: Sven Elfström
10.15 – 11.30
Program I
- Ett forsök/An Attempt (1966) 14 min., 16 mm.
- Den förtvivlade intellektuelle revolutionären med sina borgerliga komplex/The Desperate Intellectual Revolutionary and his Bourgeois fixations (1970) 16 min., DVD.
- Vem äger staden?/(Who Owns The City? (1969) 19 min., DVD.
12.00 – 13.00
Program II
- Grävskopan/The Bulldozer (1967) 7 min., 16 mm.
- Utveckling?/Evolution? (1971) 5 min., 16 mm.
- 1 Maj/May the 1th. (1968) 18 min., 16 mm.
Hidden Histories and Forgotten Fantasies: Tim Sharp, Lisl Ponger and Sami van Ingen
14.30 – 16.30
Program I
- Sharp: The Trapdoor (2005) 26 min., DVD
- Ponger: Passagen (1996) 12 min., 35 mm.
- Ponger: déjà vu (1999) 23 min., 35 mm.
17.00 – 18.00
Program II
- van Ingen: Fokus (2004) 40 min., 35 mm.