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DVD001789

3 Films By Gunvor Nelson: Generations of Women

Nelson, Gunvor

in-house transfer, 2007

Description:

DVD - Region free.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1..
b/w.   fullscreen.   sound.  

Titles

+ My Name Is Oona

Director:

Nelson, Gunvor

Running Time:

Short.   10 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1969

Language:

English

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors

Notes:

Sound. A portrait of the filmmaker’s young daughter.

+ Red Shift

Director:

Nelson, Gunvor

Running Time:

Short.   54 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA, Sweden

Year:

1984

Language:

English.

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors

Notes:

Made with the assistance of Diane Kitchen. A meditation on the emotional relationships between three generations of women, explored via daily gestures, everyday events and disjunctive aural traces. Set in the filmmaker’s childhood home in Sweden, the film is interwoven with voice-over readings of Calamity Jane’s letters to her daughter.

+ Time Being

Director:

Nelson, Gunvor

Running Time:

Short.   6 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

Sweden

Year:

1991

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors

Notes:

A delicate portrait of the filmmaker’s dying mother.