KNUTTE WESTER

Award for Swedish Art Book 2018: Horungen (A Bastard Child) by Knutte Wester All winning books will be exhibited at the Royal Library in Stockholm until august 2018. ”Med sitt filmliknande bokformat övertygar denna grafiska novell, vackert målad i akvarell. Utfallande bilder blandas med mindre och skapar en intressant rytm i samklang med skeenden i den smärtsamma berättelsen. Läsbandet är ett måste i denna opaginerade bok i läsvänligt band.” http://www.svenskbokkonst.se #NEWS

Starkt, gripande, monumentalt. Knutte Westers konst glöder av medmänsklighet och visas äntligen på Länsmuseet i Gävle. Det tar ett tag innan jag förstår. Varför det känns så konstigt i magen. Knutte Westers konst påverkar mig fysiskt. Den gör ett hål inuti. Som när vi alla såg nyhetsbilden av den döda flyktingpojken på stranden.Men Knutte Wester brukar inte sentimentalitet. Han visar oss istället styrkan och personligheterna hos de papperslösa barnen. Hos barnhemsbarnen. Elle

On the saturday 21 of october Knutte Wester exhibition A Place Without Name will open at Gävle Länsmusem. In conduction with the exhibition a new catalogue on Westers work has been published. See info on exhibition in link below http://lansmuseetgavleborg.se/knutte-wester-plats-utan-namn #NEWS #PRESS

In Korea, a documentary used to be considered as a part of journalism, and it is accepted as having a distance from arts, personal tastes, or imaginations. However, an artist who paints pictures has used the animation to portray his grandmother’s life. It is not just a technical reason to replace something that cannot be photo- graphed or reproduced. The film is a montage of images, and animated images have been adopted as a way of articulating imagination and personal consci

Pärnu Filmifestival 3.–9. juulini Pärnus 10.–16. juulini jätkub Pärnus, Viljandis, Heimtalis, Toris, Manõjas, Urvastes «Saabusin surnult» pärjati nii festivali peaauhinna kui ka parima kunstifilmi auhinnaga. Film räägib mehest, kes toodi poolsurnuna vaimuhaigete varjupaika Mehhikos Juarezes. Ta polnud võimeline voodistki tõusma ning gangreeni tõttu eemaldati tal mitu sõrme. Varjupagas võttis mees end aga kokku, rabeles mustast august välja ning nüüd hoolitseb sealsete haigete

At Pärnu international Documentary and Anthropology Film festival a selection of international price winning films was screened on Estonian Television. After a national voting the Estonian Peoples Award was given to A Bastard Child. At the price ceremony Wester was given a traditional blanket and a diploma personally handed out by the Estonian President. Link to broadcast Award Ceremony below. (Estonian Peoples Award is given out 14:30) http://etv.err.ee/v/dokumentaalfilmid/x

In 1909 in an undemocratic Sweden, a bastard child is born. Called Hervor, her mother is unmarried, and therefore labelled a ‘whore’ and driven from her home. Hervor grows up in shelters and orphanages, unwanted and rejected by society. When she becomes an adult, she fights for women’s rights and social justice for the thousands of children who were placed in similar situations as her. Artist Knutte Wester spends his childhood listening to his grandmother Hervor’s stories, wh

What advertisers are most eager to target in consumers is their desire to be loved, and that primal need is what haunts every frame of Knutte Wester’s “A Bastard Child,” a vividly nuanced ode to the filmmaker’s grandmother, Hervor. She was born in 1909 to a woman, Ada, who was shunned by her family and the rest of the community in Stockholm because of her unmarried status. Cast adrift in society, Ada was forced to send Hervor to a series of orphanages and foster families, whe

Swedish watercolour artist and filmmaker Knutte Wester draws a great amount of inspiration from the stories of his grandmother’s impoverished, trying childhood in the downtrodden, incendiary, but still sadly relevant documentary A Bastard Child. Born in 1909 to a single mother – who was branded as a whore, as was custom in Europe at the time – Wester’s grandmother, Hervor, was forced to suffer for her mother’s actions. When she spent time living with her mother, they lived fa

FILMRECENSIONER Knutte Westers har gjort en stark film om sin farmor, som betraktades som horunge. Om du har tagit del av Umeåbon Knutte Westers konst vet du att hans tema ofta är flyktingar och migration. Han har gjort skulpturer och filmer som utgått från något verkligt, som att han jobbar med flyktingbarn. Den här gången har han gjort en film om sin farmor, men han har inte bytt spår. Det handlar fortfarande om varför vi är så måna om att tillhöra en viss grupp så att vi k