BAMPFA Collection
https://bampfa.org/event/gunvor-nelson-program-1
In Conversation: Steve Anker, Lynne Sachs, and John Sundholm.
Steve Anker is an expert on experimental film as a teacher, curator, and author.
Lynne Sachs (Brooklyn) discovered her love of filmmaking while studying in San Francisco, where she worked closely with artists including Gunvor Nelson.
John Sundholm is a Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University.
A brilliant feminist classic, Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley’s first film is a dynamic polemic combining live action footage, print media, and broadcast television. Shattering the mass media’s sanitized idealizations of romance and motherhood, with loaded diapers and kitchen sink crud, Schmeerguntz is as hilarious as it is revolting. Nelson’s 1969 cinematic portrait My Name Is Oona is a magical and hypnotic portrait of her daughter set to a score composed from looping audio of the girl’s voice. Made on return trips to Sweden, Frame Line (1983) and Light Years (1987) both combine live action footage with animation techniques, creating gorgeous, layered reflections of Stockholm and the Swedish countryside, respectively.
—Kate MacKay
Films in this Screening
Schmeerguntz
Gunvor Nelson, Dorothy Wiley, United States, 1965
My Name Is Oona
Gunvor Nelson, United States, 1969
Frame Line
Gunvor Nelson, United States, Sweden, 1983
Light Years
Gunvor Nelson, United States, Sweden, 1987
Lynne has worked on various projects and writings dedicated to Gunvor Nelson:
– Remembrance Gunvor Nelson for Millennium Film Journal
– Time and Light : Gunvor Nelson’s Vision of Editing
– The Films of Gunvor Nelson
– Thoughts on the films of Gunvor Nelson
– Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor