
Person
Gunvor Nelson
Directing · 1931–2025 · Stockholm, Sweden
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.
Known for

Light Years
Director

Red Shift
Mamma Sara's Daughter Maria

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018

Tree-Line
Director
Muir Beach
Director

New Evidence
Director

Frame Line
Director

Kirsa Nicholina
Director
Before Need
Director
Reunion
Director
Filmography
- 2025Last week at Oona's bathDirector
- 2025Muir BeachDirector
- 2025LettersDirector
- 2025Penny Bright and Jimmy WitherspoonDirector
- 2018Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
- 2017On the FenceDirector
- 2010Kristina's Harbor RevisitedDirector
- 2006True to LifeDirector
- 2006New EvidenceDirector
- 2003Trace ElementsDirector
- 2001SnowdriftDirector
- 1998Tree-LineDirector
- 1994Before Need RedressedDirector
- 1993Kristina's HarborDirector
- 1992Old DigsDirector
- 1991Time BeingDirector
- 1990Natural FeaturesDirector
- 1988Field Study #2Director
- 1988Light Years ExpandingDirector
- 1987Light YearsDirector
- 1986Red ShiftMamma Sara's Daughter Maria
- 1984Frame LineDirector
- 1979ReunionDirector
- 1979Before NeedDirector
- 1976TrollstenenDirector
- 1974Oona Is My Daughter's Name
- 1973Moon's PoolDirector
- 1973One and the SameDirector
- 1972Take OffDirector
- 1972Images from the Bay AreaDirector
- 1971Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBobHerself
- 1969My Name Is OonaDirector
- 1969Kirsa NicholinaDirector
- 1967Fog PumasDirector
- 1965SchmeerguntzDirector
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