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.
Who builds the city and for whom? How do we organize our lives together? Modellarkivet portrays the archive of architecture models at Stockholm’s Urban Planning Department, as a departure point for a tentative reflection on what it means to build a city. Through slow takes along the shelves of the archive we are confronted with stacked models and cast miniature buildings, fabricated and named according to a system envisioned in the 1960s, but never completed. The camera closeups reveal the room bit by bit, contributing to a confusion of scale and offering a possibility to imagine the city anew. A constantly moving camera forms the backdrop of a narrative, where questions, fragments and references are woven together. It touches upon diverse themes such as the city as a political space, the idea of utopia, archives and collecting, artifacts, language and words.
The Model Archive is also available as a three-channel video installation.
Malin Pettersson Öberg is a visual artist working in a variety of media. Her narrative based-videos and installation works are grounded in a sincere curiosity and engagement with the surrounding world, through multi-disciplinary knowledge exchanges. This manifests in meditative and intimate works, where everyday encounters and research methods meet audiovisual and material exploration. Her in-depth investigations often address existential, social and political issues such as the complex urban planning process of the city of Stockholm or the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Malin Pettersson Öberg has taken part in numerous exhibitions and screenings in Sweden and abroad, most recently at SKF/Konstnärshuset (2024) and ArkDes – The Swedish National Centre for Architecture and Design (2018). She has published with Arvinius + Orfeus (2023) and OEI (2020), and she currently holds a teching position at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.
