
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

New Evidence
Director

Red Shift
Mamma Sara's Daughter Maria

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018
Muir Beach
Director

Take Off
Director

Tree-Line
Director

Schmeerguntz
Director
Reunion
Director

Natural Features
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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