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| Swedish Film & Swedish Ideals |
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| Sweden, 1991, 8 min, 35 mm, colour, 1:1.66 | |||
| Director: Håkan Alexandersson | |||
| SOU 1990:44, also known as the Government Investigation on Authoritive Position, is used as the base material for this film. The movie was shot at a cinema in Sundbyberg, as a federal investigator namned Yvonne Peterson holds a speach with a projected background behind her, showing aerial and catastrophy scenes. |
| Cast | Lena Strömdahl | ||
| Director | Håkan Alexandersson | ||
| Screenplay | H. Alexandersson, (after SOU 1990:44) | ||
| Cinematography | Christer Strandell | ||
| Sound | Jan Alvermark | ||
SOU 1990:44, also known as the Government Investigation on Authoritive Position, is used as the base material for this film. Some words have been exchanged for others, such as; "power" which has become "film". The movie was shot at a cinema in Sundbyberg, as a federal investigator namned Yvonne Peterson holds a speach with a projected background behind her, showing aerial and catastrophy scenes. The metamorphosis of the text, even though the textual meagreness, or even because of its nature, seems incredibly real. "For the moment, the meaning of the phrase, `the Swedish film´s ideals´ seems to be changing. There´s a fast and thorough, structural change in our society which in many important aspects influences the possiblities of the film climate. The film-investigation´s study can be seen as a contribution to the debate on how the current changes in society affect the film-worker´s possibilities of excercizing power over his own film´s ideals. Although this process is undoubtedly good for the film itself, new problems soon arise. There is a seemingly growing gap between what one may call the possible and the feasible film-workmanship. However, the idea of a dying Swedish film in the midst of a crisis is missleading. It is based on the fact that Swedish film contributes a solid, resistful system that was once installed and since has culminated only to now fade away. But that which is labeled as 'the Swedish film' contains a relativly large amount of seperate elements..." | |||