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Gunvor Nelson

Gunvor Nelson

Known for

Directing

Born

July 28, 1931

Birthplace

Stockholm, Sweden

Died

January 6, 2025 (aged 93)

Biography

Gunvor Grundel Nelson (28 July 1931 – 6 January 2025) was a Swedish artist. She worked as an experimental filmmaker since the 1960s. Some of her most widely known works were created while she lived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, where she became well established among other artists in the avant-garde film circles of the 60s and to the present.

Best known work

My Name Is Oona

My Name Is Oona

1969
Moon's Pool

Moon's Pool

1973
Kirsa Nicholina

Kirsa Nicholina

1969
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

2018
Red Shift

Red Shift

1986
Take Off

Take Off

1972
Time Being

Time Being

1991
True to Life

True to Life

2006
Before Need Redressed

Before Need Redressed

1994
Schmeerguntz

Schmeerguntz

1965

Filmography

  1. 2025

    Last week at Oona's bath

    Director

  2. 2025

    Muir Beach

    Director

  3. 2025

    Letters

    Director

  4. 2025

  5. 2018

  6. 2017

    On the Fence

    Director

  7. 2010

  8. 2006

    True to Life

    Director

  9. 2006

    New Evidence

    Director

  10. 2003

  11. 2001

    Snowdrift

    Director

  12. 1998

    Tree-Line

    Director

  13. 1994

  14. 1993

  15. 1992

    Old Digs

    Director

  16. 1991

    Time Being

    Director

  17. 1990

  18. 1988

  19. 1988

  20. 1987

    Light Years

    Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography

  21. 1986

    Red Shift

    as Mamma Sara's Daughter Maria, Director

  22. 1984

    Frame Line

    Director

  23. 1979

    Reunion

    Director

  24. 1979

    Before Need

    Director

  25. 1976

    Trollstenen

    Director

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