Movies

Experimental film with Gunvor Nelson's daughter Oona.

Gunvor Nelson stares intently at her mother Carin, a woman whose body has been devastated by the challenges of her last days on this earth. In three...

Nelson's second work shot on digital video, after Tree-Line (1998).

Gunvor Nelson's first video work.

Nelson’s most recent work deals with topics of migration, demarcation, and borders.

From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the...

Ellion Ness, a thoroughly professional stripper, goes through her paces, bares her body, and then, astonishingly and literally, transcends it. While...

Another feature of the new digital (and visually inferior) medium is that sound plays a much more prominent role than in most of her films. Trace...

A collage film with sequences of live action with animation using cut-outs, found footage and pouring sands. A dark delicacy lingers....

"Moons Pool" is a masterful and lyrical use of the film medium to portray the search for identity and resolution of self. Photographed under water,...

Gunvor Nelson plays freely and naturally in a garden confronting the camera with nature, and nature with the camera to reveal a new life force and...

This magnus opus is a domestic symphony from a woman's point of view, the portait of a grandmother, monther and child and their home. The women and...

"OLD DIGS is an inner journey through the sights and sounds of Kristinehamn as reflected in its central river." - Steve Anker

A collage film and a journey through the Swedish landscape, traversing stellar distances in units of 5878 trillion miles. It is a film acutely in the...

Schmeerguntz is one long raucous belch in the face of the American Home. A society which hides its animal functions beneath a shiny public surface...

Laced with memories and dreams from the past, the film is a multi-layered personal documentary of the life of filmmaker Gunvor Nelson's parents and...

Shadows of people inhabit a wintry road, casting darkness over the tracks. What happens when this substance is washed away by fleeting reflections...

“In NATURAL FEATURES Nelson mingles hundreds of still images with 3-D objects and “real” images photographed through glass...

A lyrical, surreal film populated by an assortment of human beings, creatures, places and events.