Pictures of Alexandra [Topic 4]

[Ian]

Excellent.

[amarie]

Alexandra turned up at the premiere of the film Turist during the Way Out West festival!



Only one so far, but I will keep my eyes open for more!

[Ian]

Nice one!

[fish]

... video interview and article about All We Have Is Now!

I'll have to check what Ashley's found before I find the same thing too.
Here's the whole interview from which Ashley has taken the Alex/Vulkano bit.
http://www.svtplay.se/video/2237583/kulturnyheterna/11-8-19-10-textat

The good bit starts at around the 6:20 mark or so.



Gorgeous "Turist" pic Ashley.
I haven't found any more from there either, but there seems to be a few places taking WOW pics, so there might be more around.

[Ian]

Cool. I don't know how Ash manages to get them, I can't!

[fish]

"I recognized so much of myself. I want something more!"



Excerpt from http://www.screendaily.com/news/women-take-centre-stage-at-way-out-west/5076206.article?blocktitle=HEADLINES&contentID=40295

"This year’s festival saw 45% of its lineup coming from female directors.

Women took centre stage at Way Out West’s Film Festival, with head of film programming Svante Tidholm giving credit to 45% of its line-up deriving from female directors.

Headlining the film side of the joint music and film event was Alexandra Dahlström’s All We Have is Now that documents all-girl Swedish punk rock band Vulkano, and Liza Minou Morberg’s coming-of-age drama Alone Together detailing the friendship of three young women on their way to Way Out West.

Both films served as feature length directorial debuts.

“It was our privilege (and luck) to have two world premieres that were both directed by women, and also about strong women. We work closely with Sweden’s film industry, and one aim is to balance equality and gender. And from watching their films – you can immediately tell they are very talented filmmakers,” said Tidholm.

Theo Tasappos, project manager from Swedish Film Institute, also reiterated the importance of female directors, “Our aim is to have a 50/50 balance between female and male filmmakers, it’s a bonus if they focus around youth as well. Both Alexandra and Liza’s films are perfect examples of what we’re looking for. When Alexandra came to us for funding - I think everyone cheered.”

Dahlström is not new to Sweden’s limelight, having worked as Assistant AD and Russian translator on Lukas Moodysen’s Lilya 4-ever, and later starred in Moodysen’s Show Me Love and Tova Magnusson-Norling’s Fröken Sverige.

But her path took a different turn when she moved to Rome to further her life experiences.

“I learnt so much from working with Lukas and Tov and other Swedish filmmakers, but I knew I needed to forge new experiences. In Rome, I strangely secured a role in Dutch soap opera Good Times, Bad Times which gave me enough money to start directing short films and music videos,” said Dahlström.

When hearing the band Vulkano for the first time, she described it as “hearing music she has yearned for her whole life.” Though the punk rock duo eventually became her close friends, the filmmaker quietly began filming them with a small vintage Canon G12 bought from a garage sale.

When she couldn’t attend parts of their tour due to other filming commitments, the band themselves would take the camera, helping to give the documentary a raw, edgy context.

Filmmaker and producer Göran Hugo Olsson (Concerning Violence, Black Power Mixtape), came on board several years into shooting, and lent higher quality cameras and his professional support.

“Alexandra came to Story with very interesting footage, but we weren’t sure if it was material for television or a feature - sometimes you need to keep filming to determine these things,” said Olsson. “But we are thrilled with the film’s final version, and hope it will continue to tour the festival circuit.”

The film will be released in Sweden on October 24."

[Dahls]

Great stuff.

I so wish I could be there (been there).
WOW seems to have merged into a mixed film and music festival now.
If they threw a food festival in the mix as well, it would be my heaven.

[DMt.]

Nice werch, Fishy, la.

[fish]

...If they threw a food festival in the mix as well, it would be my heaven.

It's always wanting more with you, isn't it Dahls?

Posted today on Inst.
Taken at the "All We Have Is Now" screening.

[Ian]

Great work, fishy.

Not such great work from the actual article writer, mind, who apparently couldn't work out that Show Me Love came before Lilya 4-ever...

[amarie]

Nice finds, Fish! Those subtitles in the video are the biggest subtitles I've ever seen. At one point even covering her face! But I suppose I could translate them to figure out what the heck they're all saying!

I also love that you found another Way Out West photo!

[ArcticMonkeys]

Have their been any reviews on the documentary, if it's any good or if it's bad. I love the Trailer for the documentary, seen as I'm a fan of Vulkano although I think the album is very hit and miss ( I don't think at this moment they found what they want to be a Riot Grrrrl Punk Band or good old fashioned pop indie band) plus I prefer Those Dancing Days, the former band of Cissi and Lisa, it's more my style a mixture of the Cure and The Bangles. But I love the short film they did and the singles Vulkano and Choir of Wolves are some of the best things they ever did.

[Dahls]

Not that I could find.

Thankfully though, we have two much better researchers than me.
I'll leave it up to them, after my efforts failed.

It's always wanting more with you, isn't it Dahls?

Yes, you got me figured out.
I want it all. And I want it now!!!


No one seems to be giving it to me thought.

[fish]

...No one seems to be giving it to me thought.

I think that's spelled L.I.F.E. and it gets us all that way.

A site called "nonstopentertainment.com" posted a tiny version of this pic and it took me a while to figure out it came from the All We Have Is Now poster.





At least it didn't have the writing all over it.

[amarie]

Great finds yet again! I hadn't even seen that photo of the All We Have Is Now poster!

Here's another one from the Turist premiere.