Movies: Eric M. Nilsson

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 independen...

Documentary film that follows politicians during various events....

A four day car trip: a pop music group hits the road in winter from Stockholm to Kiruna, above the Arctic Circle. One of the first films in Sweden shot with the Éclair NPR, a light, silent camera allowing the recording of sync sound....

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....

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

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

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

Pierre comes from an island that does not exist and speaks a language that is not available - he is the man from Podalida. Conversation with Pierre, Poet Katarina Frostenson and a French Linguist on Language and Identity....

A film by Eric M. Nilsson....

Documentary about the thermal springs in Le Mont Dore, France and the people who believe in the healing power of the water....

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

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....

Farsta, a modern suburb of Stockholm. A montage of images, sounds, little songs by Robban Broberg. A film that, today, Eric M. Nilsson calls into question....

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 Medite...

"Bläckfiskens bok" is made up of three short films ("Första resan", "Drömresan" and "Sista resan"). While making these movies, Nilsson tried to put himself in an artificial depression in order to see the world as an angry and sad man. "My mind functi...

Two quotes from Paul Valéry: "Humanity is threatened by two dangers: order and disorder." and "Nothing is more contrary to your nature than to see things as they are." A quote from the Swedish writer Thorild : "To think freely is great ! To think cor...

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

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

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....

Eric M Nilsson talks to his mother over the years when they lived during German occupation in Belgium. Over a box of things from those years his father left behind, they helped together to remember....