Nyårfest (trailer)
A film by Lisa Grip, Erik Viklund, Joel Grip, Franziska Hoffmann, Leïla Colin-Navaï and Mauricio Hernández.
Sweden | 2018 | Super 8 | Color | Sound | 84min. | With Gossas Karin Runo, Lars-Olov Tillman
(1933-2016), Peera Nakgron, Carl-Johan Åkerstedt, Alf Tangnäs.
And: Joel Grip, Franziska Hoffmann, Lisa Grip, Erik Viklund, Leïla
Colin-Navaï, Mauricio Hernández, Niklas Barnö, Katt Hernandez, Sonia
Bush, Greta Lou and Mischa.
The turn of a year in a snowy village of Sweden documents the need of
change and continuance. A collective film about rites and times.
Dala-Floda, Sweden, 680 inhabitants. In the depths of the blue light of
winter, six filmmakers ask themselves what it mean to start a new year.
Emerging locals formulate their view on time and our need of rituals and
reoccurring events. Their answers parade poetically through the snowy
and cold village landscape. A sort of time travel takes place and
recalls ordinary as well as extraordinary memories and identities. The
commonplace is our need for measuring time, our need of a beginning and
an end. A ninety year old woman shows a way out of the never ending
dream phase of the evoked Phantom Carriage (Selma Lagerlöf) and
exclaims: "Really, you ought to reset yourself. You have to feel
completely at zero again".
