Zorn - behind the camera
Summary
As producer I have worked closely to the director Staffan Lamm for many years, facilitating the process. The contribution has been both on an editorial level working with the essay text of the film as well as working as producer/curator through the production and editing of the film.
Supported by
Sveriges Television, Film i Dalarna, Kultur i Halland, Konstnärsnämnden
Description of project
A documentary about Zorn's for a long time completely unknown photographs, and the complicated way from hidden compartment to late publication.
An on-going enquiry through the artistic process was the ethical and esthetical challenges the work with the archive evokes. As the film is revealing the process of discovering the archive the aim also became to address the questions the images raise when disclosed in a contemporary context.
In addition to his well-known extensive artistic creation in painting, Anders Zorn was also a diligent photographer in the first two decades of the 20th century. He left behind more than thousand self-made photos. Some of them being models for later work. But he also took a lot of interesting documentary studies and series of completely innovative photo experiments. The photographs have been hidden and have only recently been shown to the outside world.
The director Staffan Lamm has made a close portrait of this strange relatively unknown side of Zorn's creation. That also has become an important part of his artistic creation. In addition to this new image of the artist Zorn, a personal description of the private man Anders and his complicated relationship to his wife Emma (born Lamm) is also given. Based on so far largely unpublished material
Type of work
Producer
Published in
SVT
Link to web site
https://www.svtplay.se/video/16016075/zorn-bakom-kameran/zorn-bakom-kameran
Other description
Klara Björk, Producer
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Date
2017-11-24Creator
Björk, Klara
Keywords
Movie
Documentary
Photography
Artist
Publication type
artistic work
Language
swe