Gunvor Nelson

Known for: Directing
Born: July 28, 1931, Stockholm, Sweden
Died: January 6, 2025
Movies: 37

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 Movies

6.0

My Name Is Oona

1969

5.6

Moon's Pool

1973

4.7

Kirsa Nicholina

1969

5.6

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

2018

5.2

Red Shift

1986

4.5

Take Off

1972

6.5

Time Being

1991

6.0

True to Life

2006

5.5

Before Need Redressed

1994

7.5

Schmeerguntz

1965

Filmography

2018	Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
1986	Red Shift	Mamma Sara's Daughter Maria
1974	Oona Is My Daughter's Name
1971	Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob	Herself

Directing, Writing & Producing

2025	Last week at Oona's bath	Director
2025	Muir Beach	Director
2025	Letters	Director
2025	Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon	Director
2017	On the Fence	Director
2010	Kristina's Harbor Revisited	Director
2006	True to Life	Director
2006	New Evidence	Director
2003	Trace Elements	Director
2001	Snowdrift	Director
1998	Tree-Line	Director
1994	Before Need Redressed	Director
1993	Kristina's Harbor	Director
1992	Old Digs	Director
1991	Time Being	Director
1990	Natural Features	Director
1988	Field Study #2	Director
1988	Light Years Expanding	Director
1987	Light Years	Director, Writer
1986	Red Shift	Director
1984	Frame Line	Director
1979	Reunion	Director
1979	Before Need	Director
1976	Trollstenen	Director
1973	Moon's Pool	Director
1973	One and the Same	Director
1972	Take Off	Director
1972	Images from the Bay Area	Director
1971	Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob	Director
1969	My Name Is Oona	Director, Producer
1969	Kirsa Nicholina	Director
1967	Fog Pumas	Director
1965	Schmeerguntz	Director

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