Time Has No Name
Tiden Har Inget Namn- SWEDEN / 1989 / Swedish / Color / DCP / 61 min / With Japanese subtitles *No English subtitles.
Director, Producer: Stefan Jarl
Photography: Per Kallberg
Editing: Anette Lykke Lundberg
Sound: Per Carlsson, Bengt Andersson
Music: Ulf Dageby
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The filmmaker describes the series of films of which this is one as “Bruegel paintings turned into film”. The setting is in fact a farm inhabited by an old farmer and his wife. Lyrical aesthetics and realism are successfully combined by adding true-to-life depictions of the reality of the farmers as they survive the harsh economic privations of their remaining days to the pictorial images of the quiet life in the Swedish countryside. It is a film for the silver screen, reminiscent of the great painters of Europe. Awarded the International Competition Special Prize at YIDFF ’89.
Born in 1941. Learned his craft from Swedish filmmakers such as documentarist Arne Sucksdorff and fiction filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Also active politically, and worked with filmmaker Lukas Moodysson to rally for the cause of an independent Palestine. In 1993 he received, with Sucksdorff, a special Silver Medallion at the Telluride Film Festival. His films include They Call Us Misfits (1968), A Decent Life (1979), The Social Contract (1993) and Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003).