True to Life - an echo

With Gunvor Nelson and Felicia Sjögren

>Curated by Lucie Gottlieb

Screening of True to Life (2006) by Gunvor Nelson, with a live sound performance by Felicia Sjögren. In True to Life, Nelson’s camera enters a quiet yet vibrant dialogue with the flowers in her garden — creating a drama of colours, rhythm, life and death. Approaching the film as a score and attuned to the original noises, silences and in-betweens, Sjögren weaves its original sonic fabric into her live composition. An intimate audiovisual conversation on decay, return, and the fragile persistence of life unfolds.

Thanks to Filmform.

Gunvor Nelson

Gunvor Nelson (1931–2025) was a pioneering figure in American avant-garde cinema. Born in Kristinehamn, she moved to California in 1953, studying and later teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work, often described as “personal cinema,” merged intimate experiences with universal questions. Exploring feminism, family, memory and transformation, Nelson left a lasting legacy in experimental film.

Felicia Sjögren

Felicia Sjögren is an artist working with sound and the camera. She has a background in ecoactivism where she spent over a decade working in different constellations of anarchist projects. She is currently studying Electroacoustic Composition at Royal College of Music in Stockholm. A deepened listening and the relationship to place/space and time is a central aspect of Sjögren’s practice. https://feliciasjogren.com/