Movies: Eric M. Nilsson

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 t...

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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....

A short ferry trip in Stockholm. The camera lingers on the faces, the gestures, the postures, the fragments of conversations. Although this short film seems today quite futile to Eric M. Nilsson, the press hailed the "direct" nature of the movie....

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....

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....

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....

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....

A film by Eric M. Nilsson....

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....

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

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