5 x Roy Andersson

Short films: World of Glory (1991, 16 min.) A group of gentlemen and ladies stand around a lorry in an open place at the outskirts of a city. Naked men, women and children are herded in through the rear door of the lorry. When the door has been locked, one of the gentlemen takes a hose and connects it from the exhaust pipe to the interior of the lorry. Then the lorry drives around in circles in the open place. A middle-aged man in the foreground turns to face us in the audience...

Something Happened (1987, 24 min.) In 1986, Roy Andersson received an inquiry from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare on making a film about AIDS. He accepted the assignment after some hesitation. The disease was said to be incurable, deadly and, among other things, sexually transmittable, which was a factor that might further consolidate the hostility towards sexuality that we after centuries looked to be liberating ourselves from.

School films: Visiting One’s Son (1967, 9 min.); To Fetch a Bike (1967, 17 min.); Saturday October 5th (1968, 48 min.).

Extra material: Why and How the Scenes Were Made (World of Glory, Something Happened), director’s comments, 60-page hardcover book.