Claes Söderquist

Labyrinth (2013)

Labyrinth was filmed in Malmö in the south of Sweden in the summer of 2012. It forms a trilogy together with Landscape (1985 – 1987) and Passages – Portrait of a City (2001). It is a minimal film based on time, place and movement and like Passages, it ...

The Return of the Buffalo (2012)

The 'Indians of All Tribes' group occupied Alcatraz prison, which closed in 1963, from 1969 to 1971 in order to build a cultural and educational center. When Söderquist visited the island in 1970, the occupants had built up a functioning society with jobs ...

Passages – Portrait of a City (2001)

Passages was filmed in Malmö, a city in the south of Sweden. It is a non-narrative film based on time, place and movement, which forms a trilogy with Landscape (1985 – 1987) and Labyrinth (2013). 48 different locations in the city were documented using ...

Fly till vatten och morgon (1991)

A young man returns to his parental home where his mother has lived alone as a widow for many years. ...

Landscape (1987)

Landskap is a focused and tightly-constructed series of panorama, whose masterly projection of natural sound and cyclical construction are manifested in seasonal color-and-light variations, glistening sunlight and flowing streams. ...

Epitaf (1981)

A 1981 short film. ...

Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey (1969)

A black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us. The film is based on a series of portraits of American artists, all of whom belong to a young and politicized gene ...

Civil Engineering (1968)

Old photographs and pictures with a dialogless soundtrack of a train ride. ...

In Tuxedo (1965)

In Söderquist's first film [I frack] In Tuxedo, playfulness and improvisation are combined with absurd humor. An artist steps into an empty studio and begins assembling objects into a tree-like sculpture. The sculpture is adorned with small white paper cl ...

Ingegerd Råman – framtid i varje andetag (2016)