WINNER WILD FILMMAKER AWARDS
Independent Special Event at Sundance 2025
WINNERS - JANUARY 2025
LONDON MOVIE AWARDS
Gold Award: Experimental
THE RORSCHACH TEST #1
Lena Mattsson
SWEDEN
WINNERS - JANUARY 2025
HOLLYWOOD GOLD AWARDS
Gold Award - Experimental Film
THE RORSCHACH TEST #1
Lena Mattsson
Sweden
Thank you so much. I humbly thank the various festival juries and everyone involved! I feel truly honored and very grateful!
A special thanks to
Actor Ebba Melber and
Conny Malmqvist for the music in the films "The Rorschach Test"!
Best regards from Lena Mattsson.
"The Rorschach Test by Lena Mattsson
"The Rorschach Test is a short film about life. The film's title alludes to the psychological test, consisting of a series of symmetrically shaped ink blots, which a test subject must interpret. As spectators, we are faced with some sequences with a young woman looking at us, looking away, moving in an overgrown garden, lifting an umbrella, moving on a roof, sometimes smiling, sometimes worried, all the while bathed in strong sunlight in a lighting that is enhanced by the beautiful and sharp black and white photo. The film allows us as spectators to oscillate between being patient and observer. What are we seeing? Does it have to do with drawing the line between healthy and sick? Does it have to do with ourselves? What is really going on with the woman on the roof? What is she looking at? Who is watching her? What has happened? What will happen now? As always, Lena Mattsson lets the decisive action take place elsewhere, outside the image, as always, she asks herself if the answer is in the eye of the beholder.
Text Lars Gustaf Andersson"
Lars Gustaf Andersson is Professor at Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. Areas of research include experimental film, Swedish film history, immigrant filmmaking, minor cinema and artistic research.
