Filmform (est. 1950) is dedicated to preservation, promotion and worldwide distribution of experimental film and video art. Constantly expanding, the distribution catalogue spans from 1924 to the present, including works by Sweden’s most prominent artists and filmmakers, available to rent for public screenings and exhibitions as well as for educational purposes.
Dress Rehearsal for Suicide is an attack on the advancing pop culture and art spectacles. Musician K.E. Wohlin puts a saw to his leg at a Happening at the Museum of Modern Art and is likened to a victim of ‘the merry-go-round of Artformisms and Artformgasms’.
English title
Dress Rehearsal for Suicide
Fransk titel: Répétition Générale de Suicide
1930-1990. Film-maker and artist. He studied oriental art and philosophy for many years. Karlung is a unique one-man, anti-movement phenomenon in Swedish film. He often avails himself of material generally regarded as the left-over scraps of modern society and manages to produce his films on an almost non-existing budget.