Helga Wretman
Acting
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Known For
The Sun and the Moon
'The Sun and the Moon, a film fairy tale, is about two women’s terrifying encounter with ‘Otherness’ in the form of a man, abject and monstrous, and for them to either to witness, accept or partake in his annihilation. All are caught in their own isolation and are fearful of the menace that has to be met. The film, as a personal interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, enciphers concerns, beliefs and desires in seductive images that are themselves a form of camouflage, making it possible to utter harsh truths.'
Terminator - a film about JT LeRoy
The literary persona JT LeRoy visiting Stockholm, Sweden in 2002, on a promotion tour for the novel "Sarah". Framed by footage of US highways and Heaviness "Curtains of Rain".
Tiger Girl
Having failed to get into the police force, Margarete takes up training as a security guard. One night she runs into a sexually agressive ex-colleague who insists on hailing a taxi to take her home to his place. Enter Tiger: short brown hair, a tough girl and a fighter, the cab driver. Realising that the situation is far from consensual, Tiger speeds off with Margarete, leaving her companion standing in the street. It won’t be the last time she rushes to Margarete’s aid. Tiger lives in an attic flat with two men. She knows how to wield a baseball bat. Stealing a uniform from security and renaming Margarete ‘Vanilla’, she begins to steer her life in a completely different direction.
Blutsschwestern - Jung, magisch, tödlich
Shy medical student Milla stumbles across a medieval manuscript from the time of the witch hunts while researching for a presentation: The Bible of Blood. Together with three fellow students, she starts experimenting with the text - with extremely deadly consequences: Because "The Bible of Blood" actually seems to have the power to make her most secret wishes come true. But they have also unleashed a dark power. The inconspicuous students become sex-obsessed beasts who will walk over dead bodies...
Secret Machine
In Secret Machine, the protagonist encounters an antagonist that is studying her, measuring her body and comparing her to units of space and time. Clocks rush and her movements are calculated on a grid: the eye is observed through lenses; her breath is submitted to a resistance rate by putting her under water; needles are used to quantify her reactions and pain: and her voice and motion are recorded. For the scientist measurement is understanding. While human nature appears confined in the framework and efforts of rationality, the aspiration of trapping the soul conduce the antagonist to imagine the improvable.
Secret Life
A woman is trapped in an apartment filled with moving plants. She moves at a mechanical speed and her mind functions like a clock whose hands pin the events of her life to the tapestry of time. Her thoughts escape her and come to life, growing like the plants that inhabit the space around her: living, searching, feeling, breathing and dying.