Gösta Werner

A boy's experiences on a foggy day at Öresund, the water between Sweden and Denmark.

One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.

Portrait of director Mauritz Stiller, with scenes from some of his best known movies.

Portrait of director Mauritz Stiller, with scenes from some of his best known movies.

Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to Smultronstället (1957) Director Ingmar Bergman is interviewed about his memories of and experiences of Sjöström.

Available episodes of missing movies by Mauritz Stiller.

A flute playing. A couple enters a floor with large round spots of light, similar to the large round skylights available at Filmhuset in Stockholm, Sweden. She has a short golden dress. He has a long black cape. Both are wearing masks. More instruments make up the music and now a blazing flame dances instead and we see the woman's face, in extreme close-up. The man caressing her gently. A match burns and fades out. More close-ups of the young woman. Two matches meet and flares up. Later we see the man and the woman again, it is outdoors, the city's water. They look tired and bored, as if the low born during the dance now have relentlessly extinguished. Premiered as a short prelude to Ingmar Bergman's "Persona".

A flute playing. A couple enters a floor with large round spots of light, similar to the large round skylights available at Filmhuset in Stockholm, Sweden. She has a short golden dress. He has a long black cape. Both are wearing masks. More instruments make up the music and now a blazing flame dances instead and we see the woman's face, in extreme close-up. The man caressing her gently. A match burns and fades out. More close-ups of the young woman. Two matches meet and flares up. Later we see the man and the woman again, it is outdoors, the city's water. They look tired and bored, as if the low born during the dance now have relentlessly extinguished. Premiered as a short prelude to Ingmar Bergman's "Persona".

Gösta Werner makes an unsentimental trip back to his old student city. gauging it's past and it's future.

A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.

A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.

The film tells the story of the sea fortress Sveaborg.

A potrait of Malmö, lovingly told by Gösta Werner and Nils Poppe.

A potrait of Malmö, lovingly told by Gösta Werner and Nils Poppe.

During the 1960s, artist Eric Olson embarked on a series of works under the title Optochromi. The vast majority of these were plexiglass objects: most were sculptures although a few are formally closer to paintings. From a cinematic point of view one could describe the Optochromi sculptures as metaphysical colour animations frozen in time – so much so that modern composer Jan Wilhelm Morthenson made his film Interferences (1966), a tribute to 1920s abstraction à la Richter, with the use of Olson’s works. Gösta Werner did something similar five years earlier with Levande färg – only that he mainly circles the sculptures, and contemplates them more than he interacts with them. A respectfully curious distance is always kept.

Stockholm sunset with night lights.

Gun and Robert are in love, but both are unfaithful during Robert's military service. For Gun, this results in her becoming pregnant and for Robert an infection of syphilis.

Depicting minutes before and after a child is killed by a car.

Depicting minutes before and after a child is killed by a car.

The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.

Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.

The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.

Images from a train ride through Sweden.

A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.

A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.

A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.

A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.

A morning in Klarahallen in Stockholm, a study of contrast.

Butcher Charles Svensson (Thor Modéen) bets on the horses and wins the jackpot. He finds high society is not immediately appreciative of the newly rich.

A short film/documentary. An idyll on the magic of travelling by train built around an impressionistic journey from the South to the North of Sweden.