Documentary Films in Competition 2002 / Stockholmssyndromet / Sweden 2002
A highly subjective documentary, originally presented in an explosive mosaic of the director’s contradictory emotions, stirring experiences and tormenting obsessions, which pays tributes to the populous Swedish metropolis.
A tragicomic mini-story about how the big city occupies and, at the same time, enriches one of the many human souls it finds there; it also describes this person’s attempts to free himself from his own obsessions. The director, an eccentric commentator on the events around him, rides his bike through the streets of Stockholm and, in the role of a pensive opponent of death, argues with his dead father by means of a decaying skull. This mosaic of ambivalent emotions, an original work incorporating the use of animation, above all pays tribute to the populous Swedish metropolis.
9 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Carl Johan De Geer
/ Screenplay Carl Johan De Geer
/ Dir. of Photography Carl Johan De Geer
/ Music Kjell Westling
/ Editor Thomas Täng, SFK
/ Producer Freddy Olsson
/ Production Bokomotiv - De Geer and Olsson AB
Carl Johan De Geer (b.1938, Canada), photographer, writer and filmmaker, studied at the College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm (1959-1963). His speciality is making extremely low-budget films. Filmography: Buljong (1995), Lögn (1996), I remember Lena Svedberg (Jag minns Lena Svedberg, 1998, doc.), Grandmother, Hitler and I (Mormor, Hitler och jag, 2001, doc.), The Stockholm Syndrome (Stockholmssyndromet, 2002, doc.).
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