My Name Is Oona

My Name Is Oona

Experimental film with Gunvor Nelson's daughter Oona.

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Schmeerguntz

Schmeerguntz

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...

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Take Off

Take Off

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

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Red Shift

Red Shift

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...

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Old Digs

Old Digs

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

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Time Being

Time Being

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...

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Moon's Pool

Moon's Pool

"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,...

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True to Life

True to Life

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...

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Kirsa Nicholina

Kirsa Nicholina

Kirsa Nicholina records the birth of a child at home by the Lamaze method. The father assists in the birth, while a physician guides him. At the...

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Tree-Line

Tree-Line

Gunvor Nelson's first video work.

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Before Need Redressed

Before Need Redressed

After doing Before Need, Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley embarked on a new creative process. They revisited the film, reworked it and reassembled...

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Light Years

Light Years

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...

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Frame Line

Frame Line

FRAME LINE is a collage film in black and white. Glimpses (both visual and audial) of Stockholm, people, gestures, flags and the Swedish national...

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Fog Pumas

Fog Pumas

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

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Field Study #2

Field Study #2

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

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Trollstenen

Trollstenen

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...

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On the Fence

On the Fence

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

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New Evidence

New Evidence

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

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Natural Features

Natural Features

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

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Kristina's Harbor Revisited

Kristina's Harbor Revisited