Maria Magnusson
@mariamagnusson
Artist practice: Maria Magnusson is a Gothenburg (Sweden) based artist/experimental filmmaker whose work explores the relation between sound and the moving picture in experimental videos and short film. Maria Magnusson completed a Master's degree in Photography and a Bachelor's degree in Art History and Theory at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Her practice is strongly influenced by photographic tradition and she works both still and moving images. She works with found footage, archival material, and combines analogue and digital filmic methods. Examine subjects like memory, dreams, the unconscious, identity. Maria's experimental films have screened at festivals, galleries and micro-cinemas including International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, LA FilmForum, Echo Park Film Center,The Alchemy Film Festival, Images Festival, Antimatter Media Art, Montreal Underground Film Festival. Experiments in Cinema Festival 11.4,CROSSROADS 2015,WNDX- Festival of Moving ImageThe 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge. 2017 invited to do a Super 8 film commissioned by EPFC ; called Patterns of Light and Shadows, which is a bout time and existence. Studio at Konstepidemin: https://konstepidemin.se/artist/maria-magnusson/ Filmdistributors: https://www.filmform.com/artists/4449-maria-magnusson/ and https://www.cfmdc.org/
Maria has collaborated with Kajsa G Eriksson and Lena Berglin; Vague research studios,, Karin Johansson and Leslie Robertson; Heavenly creatures photography and Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo /EPFC Collective.