Gunvor Nelson Movies

Another feature of the new digital (and visually inferior) medium is that sound plays a much more prominent role than in most of her films. Trace...

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...

"In 1972, Gunvor Nelson was invited to present a survey of her films at the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The invitation came from...

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

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

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

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

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...

Light Years Expanding is a further elaboration of Light Years, Nelson’s journey into the Swedish landscape in which she is blending animation...

A collage film with sequences of live action with animation using cut-outs, found footage and pouring sands. A dark delicacy lingers....

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

Gunvor Nelson's two-part film was recorded in Kristinehamn where she grew up and will return to live. KRISTINA'S HARBOR is an impressionistic...

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