Eric M. Nilsson

A container with stuff from a cleaned out apartment in Stockholm drives the cineaste to look for their owners. In the course of this quest, he meets the actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård and the author Stig Larsson. The desire to give meaning where perhaps there is none.

Documentary film that follows politicians during the 1979 general election night.

Farsta, a modern suburb of Stockholm. A montage of images, sounds, little songs by Robban Broberg. A film that, today, Eric M. Nilsson calls into question.

"Words in the wind": communication, solitude, secret, power, understanding ...

An immersion into the experimentation carried out in the Research Service of the ORTF, based on interviews with Pierre Schaeffer, founder and director of the service until 1974, and William Syvingtone, computer engineer. The film probes the continual output and the links between the various research groups.

A film by Eric M. Nilsson.

A container with stuff from a cleaned out apartment in Stockholm drives the cineaste to look for their owners. In the course of this quest, he meets the actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård and the author Stig Larsson. The desire to give meaning where perhaps there is none.

Documentary film that follows politicians during the 1979 general election night.

Farsta, a modern suburb of Stockholm. A montage of images, sounds, little songs by Robban Broberg. A film that, today, Eric M. Nilsson calls into question.

"Words in the wind": communication, solitude, secret, power, understanding ...

An immersion into the experimentation carried out in the Research Service of the ORTF, based on interviews with Pierre Schaeffer, founder and director of the service until 1974, and William Syvingtone, computer engineer. The film probes the continual output and the links between the various research groups.

A film by Eric M. Nilsson.

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

The English writer and composer, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, relaxed in Italy tells the full story of his life. Filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson met with Anthony Burgess by chance in 1982. They decided to make a film.

The English writer and composer, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, relaxed in Italy tells the full story of his life. Filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson met with Anthony Burgess by chance in 1982. They decided to make a film.

Europe 1900 (1968) tells about the history of luxury while problematizing memory and our images of the past.

A simple depiction of the work in the kitchen of a restaurant. Eric M. Nilsson and cinematographer Åke Åstrand attempt to get as close as possible to reality, without any commentary.

"Bläckfiskens bok" is made up of three short films ("Första resan", "Drömresan" and "Sista resan"). While making these movies, Nilsson tried to put himself in an artificial depression in order to see the world as an angry and sad man. "My mind functions like a spider's web: all the images, all the ideas, all the sentences, all the idiocies stick. Thus am I a prisoner."

A documentary essay film in which the director attempts to plunge into an artificial depression in order to perceive the world as a sad and bilious man.

A documentary essay film in which the director attempts to plunge into an artificial depression in order to perceive the world as a sad and bilious man.

A fictional biographical portrayal of Eleonora of Bavaria.

A fictional biographical portrayal of Eleonora of Bavaria.

Eric M Nilsson talks to his mother over the years when they lived during German occupation in Belgium. Over a box of things from those years his father left behind, they helped together to remember.

Eric M Nilsson talks to his mother over the years when they lived during German occupation in Belgium. Over a box of things from those years his father left behind, they helped together to remember.

How and why do certain images, certain objects or certain "works of art" become documents, more than traces. The film was shot in the Verdon during the destruction of villages and the filling of a lake.

A spacecraft containing an army of small malevolent creatures arrive with an intent to destroy the earth. But first, they must learn how people behave and feel, and therefore proceed to gather information.

A spacecraft containing an army of small malevolent creatures arrive with an intent to destroy the earth. But first, they must learn how people behave and feel, and therefore proceed to gather information.

A short film, capturing images of those on a pilgrimage in the city of Lourdes in France.

A short film, capturing images of those on a pilgrimage in the city of Lourdes in France.

In the autumn of 1968, Director Eric M. Nilsson and film team accompany Swedish opera singer Birgit Nilsson during the many-faceted events of her life, on and off stage.

Travel documentary where the narrator describes each scene exactly as it is seen.

A short film about a young man's revolt against compulsion and discipline.

A short film about a young man's revolt against compulsion and discipline.

According to Eric M Nilsson, this is an utterly unsuccesful film. It's a film about things he saw but never understood. If two people gaze upon the same thing, one of them will claim to experience something else. In this, they receive evidence that they exist, because the individual understands comparisons — but hates similarities.

An ordinary day in the bookshop Shakespeare and Company in Paris in the company of Georges and his loyal readers. The shop is a meeting place where people get together to discuss politics and philosophy.

With the gloomy, mountain of the Cévennes in the backdrop, the filmmaker interviews an aging village clergyman, who shares his wisdom and perspective on life.

TV movie about memories and thoughts about the Army Museum in Stockholm.

A film about sound, a film about words, a film about interpretation and misunderstanding.

A short ferry trip in Stockholm. The camera lingers on the faces, the gestures, the postures, the fragments of conversations. Although this short film seems today quite futile to Eric M. Nilsson, the press hailed the "direct" nature of the movie.

The second film of the "Bläckfiskens" trilogy, with an emphasis on dreams and interpretation.

The second film of the "Bläckfiskens" trilogy, with an emphasis on dreams and interpretation.

A four day car trip: a pop music group hits the road in winter from Stockholm to Kiruna, above the Arctic Circle. One of the first films in Sweden shot with the Éclair NPR, a light, silent camera allowing the recording of sync sound.

Close ups from cafés and beer gardens in the center of Stockholm to Robbo Brobergs songs.

Resa med en vän [Travel With A Friend] is a poetic documentary where singer-songwriter Olle Adolphson and filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson travels to Southern France and Northern Spain, where the mountains meets the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Mediterranean Sea in the East.

Spaceship XPZ is on its way to Earth. Onboard are thousands of little creatures made entirely of brain matter. They are very intelligent and therefore very naughty.