
Åsa Sjöström
Directing
Biography
Born in 1947. Studied Art, Art-History and Social Anthropology. Film degree from the Royal College of Art, London.
Known For

A little girl gets separated from her teddy bear and is inconsolable.
A Little Christmas Story

Mass was made during Sjöström’s years at the film department of the Royal College of Art, in cooperation with the London Filmmaker’s Co-op. Random or staged shots of people and settings in urban London are arranged and abstracted, double-exposed and solarized. The result is a dense texture filled with layers and associative dimensions. Mass is a film attempting to convey, by strictly filmic means, the cooped-up feeling of the individual in the grey mass of the city. The absurd concrete city landscape is visualized through the unspoilt and naked eye of the camera in a concentrated mosaic of images and sound.
Mass, or Monument for a Capitalist Society

Dea marina is an ecological music film about myths, mankind and the sea. It tells a story of environmental pollution and the gimmicks of today's society. Based on the fairytale Den lille Havfrue by H. C. Andersen.
Dea Marina

The little man lives a safe and orderly life. But then strange things begin to happen.
A Twilight Story

A song sets the tone, followed by an animated collage in which Super 8-film, photographs, drawings, slides, detritus and fragments from music and popular culture are used and processed. A mobileand intense portrayal of a changing country, America, America was Åsa Sjöström’s exam film at Royal College of Art in London in 1972. (Filmform)