KNUTTE WESTER

Emerging Filmmaker goes to A Bastard Child by Knutte Wester

https://sebastopolfilm.eventive.org/films/5a72501b94224600146a33a4

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 läsv...

TERRITORIES

February 10 - April 22, 2018

Participating artists

Kristin Tårnes (No)  

Jet Pascua (No)

Minna Rainio (Fi)

Mark Roberts (Fi)

Antti Tenetz (Fi)
Nogr (Nadia Degtyareva and Nick Degtyarev)(Rus)
Pilar de Burgos (S)

Oscar Guermouche (S)

Loulou Cherinet (S)

Knutte Wester (S)

http://english.havremagasinet.se/territories/

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...

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

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 w...

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 au...

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 o...

At the International Documentary Film Festival CRONOGRAF A Bastard Child and Knutte Wester was given an award for best directing. (Wester was in New York and participated on Video Link)

The winners of the XIVth edition of the IDFF CRONOGRAF

The International Documentary Film Festival CRONOGRAF has announced its winners at the closing ceremony of its XIVth edition. The Closing Gala has taken place on May 30th at the Cultural Cent...

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...