GME DVD Distribution – Gunvor Nelson's Light Years Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

The Swedish-American artist Gunvor Nelson figures among the most important experimental filmmakers of her generation. She was born in Sweden, but left her native country in the mid-1950s to study painting and art history in the United States. Later, she and her husband, filmmaker Bob Nelson settled in the San Francisco Bay Area and raised their daughter, Oona. Gunvor Nelson's first film work was with her husband, then with her neighbor Dorothy Wiley, and finally on her own.

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Her work considerably influenced the New American Cinema at the end of the 1960s, as much by its themes (women, the body, memory, dreams) as by its formal investigations (animation, collage, found footage).  She made what she termed “personal” films.

Complementing GME’s previous release of Gunvor Nelson’s DEPARTURES, the films and the booklet essays contained in this new DVD publication LIGHT YEARS reflect a half-century of evolution in this female artist’s use of media and technique. From her first experimental films made in California (FOG PUMAS, 1967) to her more recent Swedish films and video (FRAME LINE, 1983-2014), material fictions joyously exalt in a fireworks of sensations. This DVD is accompanied by a 124 page book of critical essays as well as an interview with the filmmaker.

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