Svenska (English below):
Denna relativt märkliga film - 'Cowards bend the knee' - om en ishockeyspelare som dras in i ett spel som ej är ishockey men relationer, hämnd och mord, är även den inspelad i svart-vitt och som stumfilm.
Den innehåller även scener fyllda med sexuella 'perversioner' (om man vill använda det uttrycket) eller antydningar därom, antydningar vilka bekräftas av de ord/den text som omtalar vad bilderna är menade att beskriva.
Historien kretsar kring en skrämd dotter som vill få sin fars död hämnad.
Faderns mördare visar sig vara modern.
I denna jakt använder sig också Guy Maddin av bilder från barndomen, barberarens eller frisörens salong, hockeyspelarna med mera.
Detta är en i många stycken ovanlig film men ändå känns den stundtals synnerligen ordinärt berättad, åtminstone om man tar i beaktande att det är en film av Maddin, som annars använder sig av enligt mitt förmenande ovanliga berättartekniska grepp i sina filmer.
Finlandsinstitutet blir nästa anhalt där vi bevittnar ett vernissage med skulpturer av Tommi Toija kallad 'En förunderlig värld'.
Denna uställning är riktigt intressant och konstnären har skapat figurer som är delvis realistiska delvis absurda och som uttrycker olika sinnestillstånd karaktäriserat av skulpturens ibland groteska former.
Skulpturerna ser oftast ut som barn. De inkluderar kommentarer.
De är båda konstnärer och bor sedan flera decennier i Järna där de arbetar och har arbetat inom ramen för Antroposofernas verksamhet där och annorstädes.
Två av deras döttrar bor i Paris, en i Spanien, en i Grekland, någon bor kvar hemma i Järna.
De har dock sex barn som alla i dag är vuxna.
På vår blogg har vi lagt ut en länk till den hemsida Satu skapat där hon lägger ut och visar delar av sin konst. På denna sida skall också läggas ut konstverk av Lars.
English:
This movie - 'Cowards bend the knee' - is to some parts a story of a hockey player who gets involved in another game than hockey, a game of relations, revenge and murder.
A frightened daughter to a father who has been murdered want's her father's death revenged. The perpretator of this murder is her mother or is it?
The movie includes 'perverse' sexuality (if one want to use that word) and different forms of psychoses. It's shot in black and white and it's a silent movie, as often with Guy Maddin.
Maddin also uses pictures from his childhood as the barbershop, the hockey players etc.
It's in many respects an unusual film but taking in consideration that it's Maddin who have made it, it still feels relatively ordinary in it's narrative style.
After this we continue to the Finland Institute (Finlandsinstitutet) for a vernissage with sculptures by the Finnish artist Tommi Toija and the exhibition named 'A strange world'.
These sculptures are both 'realistic' and absurd in their shape and they express different kinds of psychological states of mind, sometimes commented through the title of the work.
By chance I meet the wife of one of my cousin's - Satu. She is married to my oldest cousin Lars. They are both artists and have since decades lived in Järna working within the Anthroposophical movement there and schools connected to this organization.
They have six children of whom all are adults. Two daughters live in Paris, another son or daughter in Spain and one in Greece. One of their children still live at home.
I haven't met them since 1997 and before that I can't even remember when.
I have a link - 'Satu's homepage' - where you can see some of her paintings and later on maybe some of Lars'.
Två av deras döttrar bor i Paris, en i Spanien, en i Grekland, någon bor kvar hemma i Järna.
De har dock sex barn som alla i dag är vuxna.
På vår blogg har vi lagt ut en länk till den hemsida Satu skapat där hon lägger ut och visar delar av sin konst. På denna sida skall också läggas ut konstverk av Lars.
English:
This movie - 'Cowards bend the knee' - is to some parts a story of a hockey player who gets involved in another game than hockey, a game of relations, revenge and murder.
A frightened daughter to a father who has been murdered want's her father's death revenged. The perpretator of this murder is her mother or is it?
The movie includes 'perverse' sexuality (if one want to use that word) and different forms of psychoses. It's shot in black and white and it's a silent movie, as often with Guy Maddin.
Maddin also uses pictures from his childhood as the barbershop, the hockey players etc.
It's in many respects an unusual film but taking in consideration that it's Maddin who have made it, it still feels relatively ordinary in it's narrative style.
After this we continue to the Finland Institute (Finlandsinstitutet) for a vernissage with sculptures by the Finnish artist Tommi Toija and the exhibition named 'A strange world'.
These sculptures are both 'realistic' and absurd in their shape and they express different kinds of psychological states of mind, sometimes commented through the title of the work.
By chance I meet the wife of one of my cousin's - Satu. She is married to my oldest cousin Lars. They are both artists and have since decades lived in Järna working within the Anthroposophical movement there and schools connected to this organization.
They have six children of whom all are adults. Two daughters live in Paris, another son or daughter in Spain and one in Greece. One of their children still live at home.
I haven't met them since 1997 and before that I can't even remember when.
I have a link - 'Satu's homepage' - where you can see some of her paintings and later on maybe some of Lars'.
(Photo boy 'peeing' copied from: http://tweaksthelimbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tommi-toija21.jpg)
(Photo 'boy with baloon' copied from:http://cdn1.lostateminor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tommi-toija.jpg)
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