Rondo may be perceived as an improvised stylistic exercise set to music. It was made with a statically fixed camera. Bright colors run together on a rotating disc. New layers of colors emerge and disappear according to chance. Patterns are formed and are followed by new shapes to the sound of the music from the loudspeakers.
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Rondo
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Peter Blomberg & Erik Rathie & Bodil Johansson
About the artists
Peter Blomberg
Born in 1947. Lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Peter Blomberg, together with Bodil Johansson and Erik Rathie, directed the short film Rondo (1967), a funny live-action capture of a brush painting a moving turntable. It was co-financed by Mihail Livada, who was a prominent figure of the early Swedish art film movement and had a strong position at The Independent Film Group. Romanian refugee Livada was an important supporter and link for different groups and people and he became an influential mentor for many young filmmakers. The production company for Rondo was Arbetsgruppen för film, a.k.a. Svensk experimentfilmstudio, that was founded in 1950 in Stockholm and later developed into the foundation Filmform.
Blomberg later worked as a cameraman, participating in making films such as En kille och en tjej (1975) and Niklas och Figuren (1971).
Erik Rathie
Born in 1944.
Erik Rathie, together with Peter Blomberg and Bodil Johansson, directed the short film Rondo (1967), a funny live-action capture of a brush painting a moving turntable. It was co-financed by Mihail Livada, who was a prominent figure of the early Swedish art film movement and had a strong position at The Independent Film Group. Romanian refugee Livada was an important supporter and link for different groups and people and he became an influential mentor for many young filmmakers. The production company for Rondo was Arbetsgruppen för film, a.k.a. Svensk experimentfilmstudio, that was founded in 1950 in Stockholm and later developed into the foundation Filmform.
Bodil Johansson
Born in 1944.
Bodil Johansson, together with Peter Blomberg and Erik Rathie, directed the short film Rondo (1967), a funny live-action capture of a brush painting a moving turntable. It was co-financed by Mihail Livada, who was a prominent figure of the early Swedish art film movement and had a strong position at The Independent Film Group. Romanian refugee Livada was an important supporter and link for different groups and people and he became an influential mentor for many young filmmakers. The production company for Rondo was Arbetsgruppen för film, a.k.a. Svensk experimentfilmstudio, that was founded in 1950 in Stockholm and later developed into the foundation Filmform.