LB°20 — Artists
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Peter Weiss (1916 Potsdam–1982 Stockholm) was an artist, author and experimental filmmaker. Hans Nordenström (1927–2004, Stockholm) was an artist and architect.
In According to Law from 1957 Peter Weiss gives a penetrating documentation of claustrophobia, alienation and absence of sexual life in a youth prison in the 1950s, in Uppsala, a small town in Sweden. From unexpected angles he is catching the naked external and gloomy interior. These sequences visualise in a suggestive way the structure of power in prisons. The text in the beginning of the film says: “This film has been censored by the state. We who made the film, have been prevented in our freedom of speech, you, who see the film were supposed to suffer from certain details in reality”.
Peter Weiss (1916 Potsdam–1982 Stockholm) was an artist, author and experimental filmmaker.
Hans Nordenström (1927–2004, Stockholm) was an artist and architect.
Thanks to Filmform.
Work
According to Law, 1957
HD Video
Location
Luleå konsthall
21.11–14.2