Gunvor Nelson Filmes

  • 1969
    My Name Is Oona

    My Name Is Oona

    My Name Is Oona

    5.81969HD

    Experimental film with Gunvor Nelson's daughter Oona. The sound consists of Nelson’s daughter, Oona, repeating the names of the days of the...

    My Name Is Oona
  • 2018
    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    5.62018HD

    From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the...

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
  • 1971
    Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob

    Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob

    Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob

    01971HD

    A feature-length documentary directed by Dorothy Wiley and Gunvor Nelson about five working San Francisco artists: William T. Wiley, Robert Hudson,...

    Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob
  • 1973
    One and the Same

    One and the Same

    One and the Same

    01973HD

    A self-portrait by two women filmmakers in celebration of their friendship and filmmaking.

    One and the Same
  • 1994
    Before Need Redressed

    Before Need Redressed

    Before Need Redressed

    5.51994HD

    After doing Before Need, Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley embarked on a new creative process. They revisited the film, reworked it and reassembled it...

    Before Need Redressed
  • 1973
    Moon's Pool

    Moon's Pool

    Moon's Pool

    5.51973HD

    The film that is mostly shot underwater, in a pool, begins with footage of water and a close-up of Nelson from which we move to her body immersed in...

    Moon's Pool
  • 1972
    Take Off

    Take Off

    Take Off

    4.51972HD

    Ellion Ness, a thoroughly professional stripper, goes through her paces, bares her body, and then, astonishingly and literally, transcends it. While...

    Take Off
  • 2006
    True to Life

    True to Life

    True to Life

    62006HD

    Gunvor Nelson plays freely and naturally in a garden confronting the camera with nature, and nature with the camera to reveal a new life force and...

    True to Life
  • 2025
    Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon

    Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon

    Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon

    02025HD

    A previously unknown short by Gunvor Nelson, discovered in 2023 along with approximately 150 rolls of film in her apartment.

    Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon
  • 1979
    Before Need

    Before Need

    Before Need

    01979HD

    “We started with some dream images, a few actors, friends, and relatives. Slowly the film evolved into sequences or images that expressed the...

    Before Need
  • 1986
    Red Shift

    Red Shift

    Red Shift

    5.21986HD

    This magnus opus is a domestic symphony from a woman's point of view, the portrait of a grandmother, mother and child and their home. The women and...

    Red Shift
  • 1987
    Light Years

    Light Years

    Light Years

    61987HD

    A collage film and a journey through the Swedish landscape, traversing stellar distances in units of 5878 trillion miles. It is a film acutely in the...

    Light Years
  • 1967
    Fog Pumas

    Fog Pumas

    Fog Pumas

    41967HD

    A lyrical, surreal film populated by an assortment of human beings, creatures, places and events.

    Fog Pumas
  • 2017
    On the Fence

    On the Fence

    On the Fence

    02017HD

    Nelson’s most recent work deals with topics of migration, demarcation, and borders.

    On the Fence
  • 1969
    Kirsa Nicholina

    Kirsa Nicholina

    Kirsa Nicholina

    4.7141969HD

    Kirsa Nicholina records the birth of a child at home by the Lamaze method. The father assists in the birth, while a physician guides him. At the...

    Kirsa Nicholina
  • 2006
    New Evidence

    New Evidence

    New Evidence

    02006HD

    Shadows of people inhabit a wintry road, casting darkness over the tracks. What happens when this substance is washed away by fleeting reflections...

    New Evidence
  • 1991
    Time Being

    Time Being

    Time Being

    6.51991HD

    Gunvor Nelson stares intently at her mother Carin, a woman whose body has been devastated by the challenges of her last days on this earth. In three...

    Time Being
  • 1990
    Natural Features

    Natural Features

    Natural Features

    01990HD

    “In NATURAL FEATURES Nelson mingles hundreds of still images with 3-D objects and “real” images photographed through glass...

    Natural Features
  • 1965
    Schmeerguntz

    Schmeerguntz

    Schmeerguntz

    7.51965HD

    A hilarious, grotesque and grave attack on the public ideal of the American housewife.

    Schmeerguntz
  • 1976
    Trollstenen

    Trollstenen

    Trollstenen

    61976HD

    Laced with memories and dreams from the past, the film is a multi-layered personal documentary of the life of filmmaker Gunvor Nelson's parents and...

    Trollstenen