San Francisco Cinematheque Program Notes (1990)

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1990 Program Notes ENR4PTURED IMAGES: New films by Gunvor Nelson and Warren Sonbert Co-sponsored by the San Francisco International Film Festival, Kabuki Theater Sunday, May 6,1990 "The films of Gunvor Nelson are psychological, emotional, humorous and erotic. Her style of filmmaking uses fast-paced editing combined with striking, often symbolic, images. Her work is characterized by a strong feeling for the graphic, textural qualities of the film image, for expressive potentials inherent in shape and color." —Fred Camper Gunvor Nelson, a native of Sweden, moved from a career as a painter to bring her visions to film. Amos Vogel said that she is the "true poetess of the visual cinema." Nelson, who teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Film Institute grant, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship this year. Her work has been the subject of many one- person shows, as well as of retrospectives at the Museum of Modem Art, NY (1985) and the Anthology Film Archives, NY (1989). Natural Features (1990), by Gunvor Nelson; 16mm, color, sound, 30 minutes. "The fifth film in the series of collage films I call 'field studies.' Here I used cut-outs, photographs, mirrors, water, toys, paint, ink...in many different combinations. The central theme is faces. A dark delicacy lingers."— G.N. Gunvor Nelson Filmography Schmeerguntz (1966); co-maker: Dorothy Wiley Fog Pumas (1967); co-maker: Dorothy Wiley My Name Is Oona (1969) Kirsa NichoUna (1970) Five Artists BillBobBillBillBob (1971); co-maker: Dorothy Wiley Take Off {1912) One & The Same (1973); co-maker: Freude Moons Pool {1913,) Trollstenen (1976) Before Need (1979); co-maker: Dorothy Wiley Frame Line (1983) /?erfS/i//lf(1984) Light Years (1987) Light Years Expanding (1988) Field Study U2{\9^) Natural Features (1990) Warren Sonbert's films have been shown in many film festivals throughout the worid, including the Beriin Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival. His work has been selected for four 39