BERTIL AND MAGGAN- A DOCUMENTARY

Bertil and Maggan has been a couple for more than twenty years. They are both retired and live in a house outside a small town in the region Värmland in Sweden.
The director, JH Engström previously lived during a few years as a next-door neighbour to the couple and is still a close friend to them.
The film portrays in an intense, direct and unsentimental way the disputes, doubts and the disrespect every love relationship more or less involves.
The small everyday tasks are being portrayed as well as the drama that comes up when the frustration peaks its limits.
JH Engström has as a director become very closely involved with the couple, in a film that relates and questions the common human problems that are inevitable conditions of a relationship.

Format: DigiBeta
Duration: 28 minutes
Year: September 2006
Director: JH Engström
Producer: Jenny Örnborn
Editor: Kajsa Grandell
Music: Amanda Ooms
Sound: Anders Nyström

 

A FILM ABOUT WITH ANDERS PETERSEN



The film gives us the opportunity to meet Anders Petersen in his private life and as an artist. Questioning the emotional ups and downs in day-to-day life, as well as the individual longings and weaknesses most of us can identify with.
The position of director JH Engström expresses itself through persistent inquiries of his mentor’s methods, actions and behaviour during the process of making the film. In his process trying to emancipate, he discovers both affection and worries for his friend and the values of individual integration, the consequences of life/work are dealt with without diversity.

The film offers a wide range of “stills” chosen from Anders Petersens enormous production of work through the years. We get to follow how his photography efficiently develops, the further he reaches in his artistic development, into the even more private and physically unrefined.

JH Engström about the film:
“It’s a very straightforward story where I trough my camera have followed a person and a photographer I like a lot. It tells about Anders as an artist, but the fact that we know each other well of course colours the film. It became impossible to separate my friend from the artist Anders Petersen”.

 

Format: DigiBeta
Duration: 52 minutes
Year: 2006
Director: JH Engström
Producer: JH Engström
Editor: Kajsa Grandell
Music: Stackars Lajka/ Jonas Mathiasson
Sound: Anders Nyström