Among a small number of women artists identified with avant-garde film in the sixties is Bay Area filmmaker Gunvor Nelson, who currently teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute. Writing in the Village Voice in 1971, critic Amos Vogel (Film As a Subversive Art) called Nelson “one of the most gifted of our poetic film humanists.” Her films include Schmeerguntz (with Dorothy Wiley, 1966), a raucous satire on American family life; My Name Is Oona (1969), which captures the dawning of a young girl's consciousness; Take Off (1972), an angle on strip-tease; and Before Need (with Dorothy Wiley, 1979), a tapestry of memories of an aging woman.
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“A collage film; Stockholm and the Swedish National Anthem appear briefly.” Gunvor Nelson