The Film Institute brings together Swedish queer digital films – QX

in Swedish Film Institute websiteIt now has its own tab where Swedish films of interest have been collected from an exotic perspective.

The films have been restored and digitized and are now available for rental, school loan, film festivals, and streaming services.

– Just like in the rest of our history, the strange stories are of course somewhat hidden in our common cinematic heritage. How traits or characters are depicted – or made invisible – says something about their time and is therefore an interesting starting point for conversation even when based, for example, on stereotypes, Clara GustafsonDirector of Distribution at the Film Institute.

There are currently 28 films listed and the list will be continually expanded by the “Queer Film Group” which, other than Clara Gustafsson, consists of Jan GoransonAnd Kajsa Hedstrom And Magnus Rosborn.

– Our starting point is the films that we have digitized and thus made available for cinematic viewing. We want it to be easier to find films that might be relevant to the program if you’re working on these issues, he says Clara Gustafson additional.

A history of Swedish queer films can be found at Filmarkivet.se, where a series of shorts and trailers for gay-related films have been collected. under Queer. Here is, among others, what has been rated as the world’s first film with an alien theme, Maurice Stillers wingTo watch the 70’s movie Gay bastards and an early 80’s movie Eve and Mary which became the first Swedish lesbian film produced by the Tjejfilm collective.

The Swedish Motion Picture Collecting Association, everything from talks to films from editing demonstrations to private recordings is collected, archived and distributed by Gothenburg-based Saqmi. In addition, they are behind events like Advertised on their website.

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