Artist in Person As experimental filmmaker and teacher Gunvor Nelson prepares to return to her native Sweden after many years in the Bay Area, we pay tribute to her and her work by presenting her most recent film. Nelson's films often evoke memories of her childhood in Sweden and explore a sense of displacement from that culture. Light-of the Swedish landscape, of the projector beam-is the medium through which she travels through time and space, to conjure up fragile memories and re-examine familiar sights (this is suggested by her film titles Red Shift, Light Years and Light Years Expanding). In Nelson's cinema of evocation we shift from past to present, from Sweden to the U.S., from the flat space of the film frame to the three dimensionality of objects. Constructed through collaging snapshots, live-action footage and small objects, and through painting on glass and photographs, Nelson's beautiful, enigmatic animations have a personal vocabulary of the found, the made, the remembered, the imagined. -Kathy Geritz "Kristina's Harbor & Old Digs, Gunvor Nelson's two-part film, was recorded in Kristinehamn where she grew up and will return to live. Part I is an impressionistic depiction of daily life in this small Swedish city, suggesting how it has or has not changed in relation to its history. Part II is an inner journey through the sights and sounds of Kristinehamn as reflected in its central river." -Steve Anker