

My Name Is Oona
6.0(15)196910m1
Experimental film with Gunvor Nelson's daughter Oona. The sound consists of Nelson’s daughter, Oona, repeating the names of the days of the week and of her saying “my name is Oona”. The latter is edited into an expressive rythmical structure that accompanies the visual structure of the film that plunges into the experience of a child where both bliss and fear reigns.
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- English
- daughter
- black and white
- woman director
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United StatesUS
- PremiereSource: Weiss, Danny (March 18, 1971). "A New Consciousness". Show Business Illustrated18 Mar 1971
GermanyDE
- PremiereThe 1971 Whitney Museum screening certainly happened, but it wasn't the first. It is strongly implied in "A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art" that the film was screened *somewhere* in 1969 prior to Gunvor Nelson moving to San Francisco in 1969 to teach at San Francisco State University. It also seems highly likely, according to the same text, that it screened alongside the (confirmed) showing of Kirsa Nicholina at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1969. Failing that, if a precise 1969 date cannot be found, Canyon Cinema's "Catalog 3" from 1972 confirms that My Name Is Oona was shown at Oberhausen in 1970, prior to the Whitney Screening.1 Jan 1970
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival17 Feb 2018
GreeceGR
- PremiereSyros International Film Festival15 Jul 2017
SwedenSE
- PremiereThe 1971 Whitney Museum screening certainly happened, but it wasn't the first. It is strongly implied in "A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art" that the film was screened *somewhere* in 1969 prior to Gunvor Nelson moving to San Francisco in 1969 to teach at San Francisco State University. It also seems highly likely, according to the same text, that it screened alongside the (confirmed) showing of Kirsa Nicholina at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1969. Failing that, if a precise 1969 date cannot be found, Canyon Cinema's "Catalog 3" from 1972 confirms that My Name Is Oona was shown at Oberhausen in 1970, prior to the Whitney Screening.1 Jan 1969
- PremiereGöteborg Film Festival30 Jan 2000
- PremiereGöteborg International Film Festival31 Jan 2011
SwitzerlandCH
- PremiereLausanne Underground Film & Music Festival22 Oct 2016
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My Name Is Oona was released on 1 January 1969.
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