A Bastard Child - interview with Director Knutte Wester
In 1909 in an undemocratic Sweden, a bastard child is born. Called Hervor, her mother is unmarried, and therefore labelled a ‘whore’ and...
Toronto Hot Docs: Review A Bastard child
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...
Hot Docs 2017 Review: “A Bastard Child” (2017) ★★★★
Back then, in the beginning of the 19th or even the 18th century, women, especially unmarried ones had to face all possible social...
The pain and sacrifice is undeniably powerful
Swedish watercolour artist and filmmaker Knutte Wester draws a great amount of inspiration from the stories of his grandmother’s...
Recension Horungen
FILMRECENSIONER Knutte Westers har gjort en stark film om sin farmor, som betraktades som horunge. Om du har tagit del av Umeåbon Knutte...
Premiär för Knutte Westers nyckelverk om farmor
Knutte Westers farmor var dotter till en ogift kvinna: en ”horunge”. Under fyra års tid har Umeåkonstnären gjort över 650 akvareller som...
Gothenburg Film Festival about the film A Bastard Child
About 670 expressive watercolor and ink paintings come to life in a moving story about Hervor, who was born in 1909 as the daughter of an...
A Bastard Child in the competition for the Tromsö Palm
On friday the 20th of January A bastard Child has it's norwegian premiere at Tromsø International Film Festival. (Se program here) The...
Works on paper and a film by Knutte Wester
Works on paper and a film by Knutte Wester Throughout 2012–2016, Knutte Wester made one drawing per day. These works were in watercolour...
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet ställer ut verk ur Knutte Westers film Horungen
Read the press release here (in Swedish) Under åren 2012–2016 gjorde Knutte Wester en teckning om dagen. Verken utfördes i akvarell och...