Salad Hilowle

BALL is an investigative and humorous film about the supporting roles of football. What happens when you turn the camera beyond the pitch? We get caught up in rituals among judges and linemen, follow the zealous accuracy of the material and that of the photographers looking for the perfect image. We study the audience up close, big and small emotions build a mood at least as exciting as what happens on the pitch. On site in a football arena, we get to follow a match from different points of view but we never see the ball. A consideration of everything that happens around at a football game.

A film about cafes, trucks and the end of the world.

Passion of Remembrance (2020) weaves together collective memories from television shows and popular culture of 1990s Sweden with a very personal memory landscape of growing up in Sweden while black. The film contains both staged scenes shot on 35 and 16 mm film stock and clips from television. Hilowle reformu­lates and injects new meaning into images, nature, and landscapes that carry connotations of the folkloric paintings of Anders Zorn and Carl Larsson, quintes­sential Swedishness. He offers a black gaze on cultural artifacts that construct, limit, and attribute meaning to our understanding of who belongs and who doesn’t—an act of claiming and longing for a space that can become home. Who can be the goddess of the northern prairie?

Acclaimed artist Salad Hilowle reimagines the life of George Sylvan a.k.a. Joe Sylvain, the first Black actor in Swedish cinema who, among other things, played Starke Adolf in a film version of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) and was the partner of Ester “Miss Arona” Nygren – the “strongest lady in Europe.”

A portrait of a mother and daughter - one living in Sweden and the other in Somalia - who correspond by letter to one another.

An insight into young Somali mens experience in Sweden.

A spacecraft will crash land on Earth at any time, but no one knows when and where. Poetically portrayed about waiting and changing perspectives in a medium-sized city.