{"id":863,"date":"2006-11-16T20:04:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T02:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=863"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:35:14","slug":"light-years-the-films-videos-of-gunvor-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/11\/16\/light-years-the-films-videos-of-gunvor-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Years: The Films &amp; Videos of Gunvor Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Thursday, November 16, 2006, 6pm<\/strong> | <em>Gunvor Nelson in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/09\/GNelson-NaturalFeatures450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2975\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/09\/GNelson-NaturalFeatures450.jpg\" alt=\"Gunvor Nelson, Natural Features (1990). Image courtesy of the artist.\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Gunvor Nelson, Natural Features (1990). Image courtesy of the artist.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>One of the few women to emerge from San Francisco\u2019s heady independent film scene of the 1960s, Swedish filmmaker Gunvor Nelson has produced one of the great bodies of work in experimental film. Her works are at once intimate studies of life\u2019s emotional landscapes and sensual explorations of image and sound, built up through lush compositions and lyrical montages. Tonight, in a rare North American appearance, Nelson will present the first in a three-part overview of her work, including the Midwest premiere of her latest video, <em>New Evidence <\/em><span>(2006); along with her first film, the visceral and brash <em>Schmeerguntz <\/em><\/span><span>(w\/Dorothy Wiley, 1966); the lyrical <em>Moon\u2019s Pool <\/em><\/span><span>(1973) and the stunning collage film, <em>Natural Features <\/em><\/span><span>(1990). <em>Light Years<\/em><\/span><span> is co-presented by CATE, the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago, and Chicago Filmmakers. Part two screens Friday, November 17 at the Film Studies Center.<span> <\/span>Part three screens Saturday, November 18 at Chicago Filmmakers.<\/span> 1966-2006, Gunvor Nelson, Sweden\/USA, ca. 85 min, various formats.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 16, 2006, 6pm | Gunvor Nelson in person! Gunvor Nelson, Natural Features (1990). Image courtesy of the artist. One of the few women to emerge from San Francisco\u2019s heady independent film scene of the 1960s, Swedish filmmaker Gunvor Nelson has produced one of the great bodies of work in experimental film. Her works [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/11\/16\/light-years-the-films-videos-of-gunvor-nelson\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Light Years: The Films &amp; Videos of Gunvor Nelson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[206,225,481],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-11","tag-europe","tag-feminist","tag-portrait"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8785,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/8785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}