
Ralph Lundsten
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Biography
Ralph Lundsten is a Swedish composer of electronic music, as well as a film director, artist and author. He was born on 6 October 1936 in Ersnäs, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden, and now lives in Nacka on the outskirts of Stockholm, still close to the forest and the sea. His home is Castle Frankenburg, dating from 1878, a wooden fairytale mansion which also houses his famous picture and electronic music studio Andromeda. Since 1959 he has lived an independent life, creating his own personal musical language, and preparing original films and exhibitions. His song Out in the Wide World serves as the signature tune for Radio Sweden International broadcasts. During the 1950s Ralph Lundsten built his own electronic musical instruments and was one of the first pioneers in this field. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Lundsten, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.
Thriller: A Cruel Picture

Lena is a young woman in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic partygoer Helge, Lena‘s life is turned upside down when Helge take some nude photographs of her. These photos could destroy her life.
Exposed

After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.
The Man from the Other Side

Sweden in the near future. A terrorist leader is planning an attack against a US oil rig off the coast of Sweden. It all develops into a tangle of environmental scandals, political corruption and murder.
Flight Level 450

The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.
Elvis! Elvis!

When teenager Dante's parents go on vacation, they give him strict instructions not to "make anything up" while they're away. But when Dante and his friend Tvärsan find a diamond ring in the snow, they're drawn into an exciting detective adventure.
Dante: Beware of the Shark!

Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.
Walk On Water If You Can

In this film, Norwegian writer, director, cameraman and musician Ragnar Lasse has fashioned an intricate, exquisitely photographed and multilayered examination of the lives, problems and relationships of a father and this two children, a boy and a girl. The story ranges over a wide time period and is covered in multiple flashbacks and from a number of different points of view.
Love Is War

A man wakes up in a hospital after a car crash where he lost his memory. When his mother brings him photos from a roll of film recovered from his camera his memories start coming back.
Skulden

A psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision whether she should leave husband and child in favor of an American she has fallen in love with.
Kvindesind

Documentary about the Swedish humorist, film maker and artist Yngve Gamlin
I huvet på n' Gamlin

A German sociologist goes to Sweden to investigate whether the Swedish sin is myth or not. He stations himself in a student home for girls. His fiancée in Berlin fantasizes about the study, and to allay her worries she packs her bags and goes to find him, to convince him to come home.
Do You Believe in Swedish Sin?

A poetic film on the act of seeing and on the details that rarely get our attention. The film is a collage of diverse scenes depicting life, death, objects and people: a Swedish crayfish party, a classroom, cows in the meadow, the Stockholm subway
My Eye Is Reflecting

A portrait of electronic composer, musician, experimental filmmaker and multi-artist Ralph Lundsten shot in his spectacular Andromeda studio outside of Stockholm. Apart from his music the film also features parts of Lundsten's cinematic works.
Cosmic Love
In an effort to lower the carbon footprint of humanity a project is designed to shrink the size of the human body.
Krympningen

Documentary on illustrator and artist Hans Arnold.
Hans Arnold - Sorcerer of the Pen
An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.
EMS nr 1
Abstract experimental film.
Kontrast

An experimental film about the city of Stockholm.
The Pulse of the Big City
A portrait of the musician and composer Ralph Lundsten in a film about art, music and philosophy - a cosmic journey in Sweden in music and images.