Eric M. Nilsson

A documentary essay film in which the director attempts to plunge into an artificial depression in order to perceive the world as a sad and bilious man.

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The second film of the "Bläckfiskens" trilogy, with an emphasis on dreams and interpretation.

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The third film featured in the "Bläckfiskens bok" trilogy, a poetic essay about the final journey.

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Resa med en vän [Travel With A Friend] is a poetic documentary where singer-songwriter Olle Adolphson and filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson travels to Southern France and Northern Spain, where the mountains meets the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Mediterranean Sea in the East.

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A container with stuff from a cleaned out apartment in Stockholm drives the cineaste to look for their owners. In the course of this quest, he meets the actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård and the author Stig Larsson. The desire to give meaning where perhaps there is none.

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The English writer and composer, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, relaxed in Italy tells the full story of his life. Filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson met with Anthony Burgess by chance in 1982. They decided to make a film.

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With the gloomy, mountain of the Cévennes in the backdrop, the filmmaker interviews an aging village clergyman, who shares his wisdom and perspective on life.

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An autobiographical film about Eric M. Nilsson's experiences of Swedish health care and the limits of polite society.

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The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

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Documentary film that follows politicians during various events.

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"Words in the wind": communication, solitude, secret, power, understanding ...

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Together with Godfried Talboom, Nilsson traveled around Europe with a commitment: to film something every day, without having planned anything. The film also creates context where context does not exist.

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A short documentary from the 1970s depicting the employees at work, transforming scrap metal to steel at Domnarvets järnverk.

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How and why do certain images, certain objects or certain "works of art" become documents, more than traces. The film was shot in the Verdon during the destruction of villages and the filling of a lake.

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A spacecraft containing an army of small malevolent creatures arrive with an intent to destroy the earth. But first, they must learn how people behave and feel, and therefore proceed to gather information.

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According to Eric M Nilsson, this is an utterly unsuccesful film. It's a film about things he saw but never understood. If two people gaze upon the same thing, one of them will claim to experience something else. In this, they receive evidence that they exist, because the individual understands comparisons — but hates similarities.

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An immersion into the experimentation carried out in the Research Service of the ORTF, based on interviews with Pierre Schaeffer, founder and director of the service until 1974, and William Syvingtone, computer engineer. The film probes the continual output and the links between the various research groups.

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A movie about the culture clash in Tunisia between Swedish aid workers and local people. Swedes and Tunisians both give their views on the current projects.

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About a school in Belgium founded in 1907 by Ovide Decroly, doctor and pedagogue.

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In the autumn of 1968, Director Eric M. Nilsson and film team accompany Swedish opera singer Birgit Nilsson during the many-faceted events of her life, on and off stage.

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In this film Eric Nilsson takes up the contrasts in the well-ordered Swedish society--order versus spontaneity; individual desires set against collective needs; subordinates vis-à-vis superiors. The young Swedes interviewed make a plea for independence, imagination, and the discussion of existing conditions.

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Europe 1900 (1968) tells about the history of luxury while problematizing memory and our images of the past.

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A film by Eric M. Nilsson.

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A short film about a young man's revolt against compulsion and discipline.

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A fictional biographical portrayal of Eleonora of Bavaria.

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Travel documentary where the narrator describes each scene exactly as it is seen.

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An ordinary day in the bookshop Shakespeare and Company in Paris in the company of Georges and his loyal readers. The shop is a meeting place where people get together to discuss politics and philosophy.

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Close ups from cafés and beer gardens in the center of Stockholm to Robbo Brobergs songs.

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Resa med en vän [Travel With A Friend] is a poetic documentary where singer-songwriter Olle Adolphson and filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson travels to Southern France and Northern Spain, where the mountains meets the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Mediterranean Sea in the East.

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The English writer and composer, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, relaxed in Italy tells the full story of his life. Filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson met with Anthony Burgess by chance in 1982. They decided to make a film.

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The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

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A spacecraft containing an army of small malevolent creatures arrive with an intent to destroy the earth. But first, they must learn how people behave and feel, and therefore proceed to gather information.

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A movie about the culture clash in Tunisia between Swedish aid workers and local people. Swedes and Tunisians both give their views on the current projects.

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In this film Eric Nilsson takes up the contrasts in the well-ordered Swedish society--order versus spontaneity; individual desires set against collective needs; subordinates vis-à-vis superiors. The young Swedes interviewed make a plea for independence, imagination, and the discussion of existing conditions.

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A short film about a young man's revolt against compulsion and discipline.

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A fictional biographical portrayal of Eleonora of Bavaria.

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A short film, capturing images of those on a pilgrimage in the city of Lourdes in France.

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A focus on Sweden's greatest dramatist, August Strindberg, his years spent in Paris and the inspiration the city had on his poetry.

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