Eric M. Nilsson Movies

A container with stuff from a cleaned out apartment in Stockholm drives the cineaste to look for their owners. In the course of this quest, he meets...

A focus on Sweden's greatest dramatist, August Strindberg, his years spent in Paris and the inspiration the city had on his poetry.

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...

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

A film by Eric M. Nilsson.

On a trip through Europe, Eric M. Nilsson and cinematographer Åke Åstrand stopped in the small French village of Saint-Agrève, in...

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

A fictional biographical portrayal of Eleonora of Bavaria.

An autobiographical film about Eric M. Nilsson's experiences of Swedish health care and the limits of polite society.

A four day car trip: a pop music group hits the road in winter from Stockholm to Kiruna, above the Arctic Circle. One of the first films in Sweden...

A simple depiction of the work in the kitchen of a restaurant. Eric M. Nilsson and cinematographer Åke Åstrand attempt to get as close as...

A film by Eric M. Nilsson, who poses questions behind the motives of an artist, scientist, and priest, among others.

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

Documentary film that follows politicians during various events.

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,...

A film about sound, a film about words, a film about interpretation and misunderstanding.

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

In this film Eric Nilsson takes up the contrasts in the well-ordered Swedish society--order versus spontaneity; individual desires set against...

Two quotes from Paul Valéry: "Humanity is threatened by two dangers: order and disorder." and "Nothing is more contrary to your nature than to...

"Bläckfiskens bok" is made up of three short films ("Första resan", "Drömresan" and "Sista resan"). While making these movies, Nilsson...