WINNER Spain CinemART Film Festival 2024

 




WINNER Spain CinemART Film Festival 2024. Sponsored by WILD FILMMAKER.
Not Without Gloves
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY.
Thank you so much Spain CinemART Film Festival 2024 and Wild Filmmaker for giving Not Without Gloves awards for "BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY" It is an honor.
A special thanks for the fantastic job you do for us as filmmakers
Conny Malmqvist for the music in the film Not Without Gloves!
Best regards from Lena Mattsson.
"Not without gloves" by Lena Mattsson
Lena Mattsson's film "Not without gloves" reveal the common identity that we share in the experience and memory of the landscapes we come from, which in this particular case is also Mattson’s own origin.
The film problematize a romantic nature experience through various distortions, interpretations and questioning of the original place. Instead, we are allowed to enter as visitors into a magical world. Where Mattsson highlights in a poetic way the COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change.
Music Conny C-A Malmqvist
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WILD FILMMAKER Awards. Special Event at the Sundance Film Festival 2025


 


Thank you so much WILD FILMMAKER Awards, International Selection, Special Event at the Sundance Film Festival 2025! I humbly thank the festival jury for making "Not Without Gloves" an Official Selection. I feel truly honored and very grateful!
Special thanks to Michele Diomà
WILD FILMMAKER - Editor in Chief,
Sally Valentina Lumi for the fantastic work that you do for us filmmakers.
Conny C-A Malmqvist for the music in the film "Not Without Gloves"!
Best regards from Lena Mattsson.
“After our events at the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice International Film Festivals, we are excited to announce that, for the first time, we will also be at the Sundance Film Festival 2025!
Starting today, only the top creators from our Community can submit their projects to our first special event at Sundance FF.
The awards ceremony will take place in January 2025!
Thank you so much.
Our journey continues!
The Hollywood Reporter: “WILD FILMMAKER - The World’s Largest Community for Indie Filmmakers.
Variety: “WILD FILMMAKER - Let’s Give Cinema Its Freedom Back.”





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WINNER Shanghai Indie International Film Festival 2024

 



WINNER Shanghai Indie International Film Festival 2024.
Not Without Gloves
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Thank you so much Shanghai Indie International Film Festival and Wild Filmmaker for giving Not Without Gloves award for "BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM" It is an honor.
A special thanks for the fantastic job you do for us as filmmakers
Conny Malmqvist for the music in the film Not Without Gloves!
Best regards from Lena Mattsson.
"Not without gloves" by Lena Mattsson
Lena Mattsson's film "Not without gloves" reveal the common identity that we share in the experience and memory of the landscapes we come from, which in this particular case is also Mattson’s own origin.
The film problematize a romantic nature experience through various distortions, interpretations and questioning of the original place. Instead, we are allowed to enter as visitors into a magical world. Where Mattsson highlights in a poetic way the COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change.

Music Conny C-A Malmqvist

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“My Dream and I” (EXCLUSIVE) Interview with Lena Mattsson - Wild Filmmaker




– Do you remember the exact moment you fell in love with cinema?

I was lying on a sheep skin rug on the living room floor, watching television. Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece Wild strawberries was on. The film made a strong impression on me, and it has accompanied me throughout my whole career as a filmmaker. It describes a journey through time and space, where we get to accompany the elderly professor Isak Borg as he approaches death. Wild Strawberries touches upon the the most important existential questions of life and death. I clearly remember a scene where a young actor Bibi Andersson (Sara) puts a mirror in front the old man as if in a dream. He doesn’t want to look, but she insists and says: ” “Have you looked in the mirror, Isak? You’re an anxious old man who’s soon going to die.” The mirror here is a painful vehicle of self awareness: the glass mercilessly reflects the aspects of the self that the person reflected wishes to ignore.

 The film makes a journey through life where darkness and light are painted in beautiful black and white. Maybe this is why I often make my films in black and white?

– When did you realize that the story living in your heart had to be turned into a screenplay and then into a film project? 

My film project Not without gloves was born out of boredom and isolation during the covid pandemic. My thoughts went back in time to the place I was born. I am like Ingmar Bergman in this respect: it starts with an image in my head. Not without gloves problematizes the romantic approach to nature through distortions, and asks questions about the original place. We get to go into a magical world where I poetically treat the covid pandemic and the changes to the environment of today.

Originally, I am an artist. I started art school early and got my master’s degree at a young age. I was doing paintings but much to the dismay of my teachers I took up photography and film. Still I consider myself a painter, painting my stories and try to push the limits of what film and art can be. When I created Not without gloves I was supposed to have been curating a large exhibition of art from the 90’s, but because of covid the exhibition had to be moved forward to a later time, and I got time to experiment with a project of my own, poetically framing the pandemic. I don’t work with a script in the traditional sense but rather make my way forward through experimenting with pictures and sounds. Eventually a script emerges and I know exactly what I want to express. I paint the story rather than tell it in a traditional, linear fashion.


– Is there a person you would like to thank for helping you bring your project to life?

For many years I have worked with the philosopher, art critic and musician Conny C-A Malmqvist. He makes new compositions for me that I can use however I want to. I am very greatful for this cooperation and it is very artistically advantageous to me that I am able to decide on my own how the story gets to evolve in a visual and aural respect, since I do all the editing myself. I put down a lot of effort and energy into the process of editing the film. It is a central part of my artistry. I love everything about the process of film making, from meeting the actors, who often influence the films, to the shooting and finally, my big passion, cutting and honing the final shape and form of the film. I work with film in many different ways, as sculptural works or part of the public space, or more traditionally. There are no limits.

– Do you think the Wild Filmmaker Community is helping to turn your dream into a reality?

Yes, definitely. Through the collaboration my film has gained a completely different impact internationally, which I am very happy and grateful for. I have met several like-minded film makers that I can discuss life, art, poetry, literature and film history with through Wild Filmmaker Community. These topics are very close to my heart. As a film maker and artist I want to erase the boundaries between different art forms and genres. Maybe we can only do that together.

https://wildfilmmaker.com/my-dream-and-i-exclusive-interview-with-lena-mattsson/

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Winner TELLURIDE NEW STORIES FILM FESTIVAL 2024



Winner TELLURIDE NEW STORIES FILM FESTIVAL 2024 Not Without Gloves BEST ORIGINAL EUROPEAN SHORT FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY Please see the link below.
https://wildfilmmaker.com/telluride-new-stories-film-festival-2024/

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tiff - Toronto International Film Festival! - Special Event 2024




 

Winner Special Event i Toronto.
Not Without Gloves
BEST POETRY FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR
Thank you so much tiff Wild Filmmaker Awards in Toronto 2024.
I feel truly honored and grateful!
Special thanks to Michele Diomà
WILD FILMMAKER - Editor in Chief
Cristina Mari, Adel Sunes, Sally Valentina Lumi, Veronica Pastor, Rubin Saul for the fantastic work that you do for us filmmakers.
"Not without gloves" by Lena Mattsson
Lena Mattsson's film "Not without gloves" reveal the common identity that we share in the experience and memory of the landscapes we come from, which in this particular case is also Mattson’s own origin.
The film problematize a romantic nature experience through various distortions, interpretations and questioning of the original place. Instead, we are allowed to enter as visitors into a magical world. Where Mattsson highlights in a poetic way the COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change.
Music Conny C-A Malmqvist
Special thanks to Conny Malmqvist for the music in the film "Not Without Gloves"!
Best regards from Lena Mattsson.

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Island of Light - Smögen 2024. Summer City of Love by Lena Mattsson


 


SUMMER CITY OF LOVE!
Monumental projection
LENA MATTSSON/ SWEDEN
Location 2
In a troubled time of inhuman suffering, war and violence,
perhaps we want to see a glimmer of light in the darkness?
Lena Mattsson's new works are filmed and edited to be projected onto a boathouse on Smögen's jetty, where they interact with the unique environment and its historical context with sharp precision.We get to enter as visitors into a magical world, a realization of the place's own poetry. There, past, present, dream and reality are woven together. In war and love, everything is supposed to be allowed, so perhaps also these revelations of boundlessness in time and space?
The music is specially composed by the multifaceted Conny C-A Malmqvist, who, in addition to being a writer and philosopher, also regularly creates the sound visions that accompany Lena Mattson's imagery. The work is dedicated to all residents and visitors to this magical island.Lena Mattsson herself grew up in the area and is inspired by the place and its surroundings, which have deeply influenced her artistry.

Photo: Heikki Koskelainen
Lena Mattsson was born in Kungshamn in 1966 and works in Malmö.


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WINNER Best Cinematic Project of the Year 2024



WINNER Best Cinematic Project of the Year 2024!
Not Without Gloves
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST INDIE PRODUCER.
Thank you so much Best Cinematic Project of the Year 2024, Sponsored by Wild Filmmaker. I feel truly honored and grateful!
A special thanks for the fantastic job you do for us as filmmakers
Conny Malmqvist for the music in the film Not Without Gloves!
Best regards from Lena Mattsson.
"Not without gloves" by Lena Mattsson
Lena Mattsson's film "Not without gloves" reveal the common identity that we share in the experience and memory of the landscapes we come from, which in this particular case is also Mattson’s own origin.
The film problematize a romantic nature experience through various distortions, interpretations and questioning of the original place. Instead, we are allowed to enter as visitors into a magical world. Where Mattsson highlights in a poetic way the COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change.
Music Conny C-A Malmqvist

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