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Gunvor Grundel Nelson was born in 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden, and now lives in Kristinehamn, Sweden. She has worked as an experimental filmmaker since the 1960s. Some of her most widely known works were created while she lived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, where she became well established among other artists in the avant-garde film circles of the 60s and to the present.
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Total trailers found: 35
20 February 2018
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives.
01 January 1976
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 family in Sweden.
01 January 2006
Shadows of people inhabit a wintry road, casting darkness over the tracks. What happens when this substance is washed away by fleeting reflections and blended into new matter, color and forms? And sound: feet tramping endlessly round, round like hands on a clock.
01 January 1998
Gunvor Nelson's first video work.
01 January 1993
Gunvor Nelson's two-part film was recorded in Kristinehamn where she grew up and will return to live.
03 April 1992
"OLD DIGS is an inner journey through the sights and sounds of Kristinehamn as reflected in its central river.
01 January 1988
Light Years Expanding is a further elaboration of Light Years, Nelson’s journey into the Swedish landscape in which she is blending animation with live-action.
01 January 1990
“In NATURAL FEATURES Nelson mingles hundreds of still images with 3-D objects and “real” images photographed through glass layerings into a free-associative and playfully bizarre form of animation.
11 November 1971
A feature-length documentary directed by Dorothy Wiley and Gunvor Nelson about five working San Francisco artists: William T.
22 September 2025
A previously unknown short by Gunvor Nelson, discovered in 2023 along with approximately 150 rolls of film in her apartment.
22 September 2025
A previously unknown short by Gunvor Nelson, discovered in 2023 along with approximately 150 rolls of film in her apartment.
22 September 2025
A previously unknown short by Gunvor Nelson, discovered in 2023 along with approximately 150 rolls of film in her apartment.
05 April 1986
This magnus opus is a domestic symphony from a woman's point of view, the portrait of a grandmother, mother and child and their home.
01 January 1969
Experimental film with Gunvor Nelson's daughter Oona. The sound consists of Nelson’s daughter, Oona, repeating the names of the days of the week and of her saying “my name is Oona”.
01 January 2001
Movement begins and ends with snowflakes, fleeting, floating, whirling and dancing in constant restlessness.
10 February 1991
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.
14 August 1973
The film that is mostly shot underwater, in a pool, begins with footage of water and a close-up of Nelson from which we move to her body immersed in water in a bath-tub from which yet another transition occurs to a pool with male and female naked bodies swimming underwater.
03 April 1984
Frame Line is a collage film in black and white. Glimpses (both visual and audial) of Stockholm, people, gestures, flags and the Swedish national anthem appear through drawings, paintings and cut-outs.
01 January 1994
After doing Before Need, Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley embarked on a new creative process. They revisited the film, reworked it and reassembled it creating a shorter new version, called Before Need Redressed.
01 March 1965
A hilarious, grotesque and grave attack on the public ideal of the American housewife.
01 January 1973
A self-portrait by two women filmmakers in celebration of their friendship and filmmaking.
18 October 1972
Ellion Ness, a thoroughly professional stripper, goes through her paces, bares her body, and then, astonishingly and literally, transcends it.
22 September 2025
A previously unknown short by Gunvor Nelson, discovered in 2023 along with approximately 150 rolls of film in her apartment.
01 January 2006
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 cycle.
01 January 1979
Poetic short film by Gunvor Nelson about her reunion with former school friends in Kristinehamn. The film was not released after its production.
30 December 1967
A lyrical, surreal film populated by an assortment of human beings, creatures, places and events.
01 January 1987
A collage film and a journey through the Swedish landscape, traversing stellar distances in units of 5878 trillion miles.
01 January 1979
“We started with some dream images, a few actors, friends, and relatives. Slowly the film evolved into sequences or images that expressed the emotional discoveries of an aging woman… Standards of Perfection applied to all the selves, the relationships, the layers of memory.
01 January 1969
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.
01 January 2017
Nelson’s most recent work deals with topics of migration, demarcation, and borders.
22 September 2025
A previously unknown short by Gunvor Nelson, discovered in 2023 along with approximately 150 rolls of film in her apartment.
03 April 2003
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.
01 January 1988
A collage film with sequences of live action with animation using cut-outs, found footage and pouring sands.
