Gunvor Nelson

Biography

Gunvor Grundel Nelson (28 July 1931 – 6 January 2025) was a Swedish artist. She worked as an experimental filmmaker since the 1960s. Some of her most widely known works were created while she lived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, where she became well established among other artists in the avant-garde film circles of the 60s and to the present.

Directed

1. My Name Is Oona (1969) — Director
2. Moon's Pool (1973) — Director
3. Kirsa Nicholina (1969) — Director
4. Take Off (1972) — Director
5. Red Shift (1986) — Director
6. Time Being (1991) — Director
7. True to Life (2006) — Director
8. Before Need Redressed (1994) — Director
9. Schmeerguntz (1965) — Director
10. Frame Line (1984) — Director
11. Light Years (1987) — Director
12. Field Study #2 (1988) — Director
13. Trollstenen (1976) — Director
14. Fog Pumas (1967) — Director
15. Light Years Expanding (1988) — Director
16. New Evidence (2006) — Director
17. Trace Elements (2003) — Director
18. Old Digs (1992) — Director
19. Tree-Line (1998) — Director
20. Snowdrift (2001) — Director
21. Natural Features (1990) — Director
22. Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob (1971) — Director
23. Kristina's Harbor Revisited (2010) — Director
24. On the Fence (2017) — Director
25. One and the Same (1973) — Director
26. Kristina's Harbor (1993) — Director
27. Images from the Bay Area (1972) — Director
28. Reunion (1979) — Director
29. Last week at Oona's bath (2025) — Director
30. Muir Beach (2025) — Director
31. Letters (2025) — Director
32. Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon (2025) — Director
33. Before Need (1979) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor (2018)
2. Red Shift (1986) — Mamma Sara's Daughter Maria
3. Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob (1971) — Herself
4. Oona Is My Daughter's Name (1974)