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Britta H. Sjogren (born December 21, 1958) is an independent filmmaker and academic. Biography [ edit ] Britta Sjogren was born in Portland, Oregon and attended University of California, Berkeley for her undergraduate and University of California, Los Angeles , where she earned degrees in both a Master of Fine Arts in film production ...
Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions is the first feature film written and directed by Britta Sjogren. It premiered in dramatic competition at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and subsequently was featured in several film festivals.
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Shot with non-professional actors in black-and-white, In This Short Life contemplates the margin between documentary and fiction as parts of the story are derived from the lives of the performers. The film follows four intertwined lives in Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles: an elderly woman embarking on an affair; a mentally unstable man being evic...
Chris Shearer - Peter, a pushing-40 actor, waiting for a big break that is always just around the corner.Britta Sjogren - Heather, young female artist forced by a much-desired yet inconveniently-timed pregnancy who must reassess the priorities in her life.Chris Sjogren - Chris, a mentally unstable man on the cusp of being evicted from his home.Christine Sjogren - an elderly woman who teaches piano, ambivalently embarks on an affair.Irina Leimbacher from the SF Cinematheque describes the film, “...A deftly structured experiment in personal narrative the gracefully, almost surreptitiously, rides between fiction and documentary.” Holly Willis writing for LA Weekly characterizes Sjogren's work, "The stippled feathers of a dead blackbird nestled in a bed of leaves and the long, wh...
Sjogren received the Jury Prize for Best Feature award at the 2006 BendFilm Festival in Bend, Oregon.
Sjogren is the author of a book on film theory that reassesses subjectivity, the female voice, and sound in the film: Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film. She co-founded the production company, Dire Wolf, in 2007.
Exhibition October 6 - November 4, 2021; Reception and artist talk October 28 @ 6:30pm; Klicken Sie sich einfach durch um die Katalog; Britta Sjögren’s (Writer/Director/Producer) Sjogren’s films have received awards in such diverse venues as the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Rio FEMINA, Atlanta, Aspen, as well as been included in special showcases at Creteil’s Festival of Films by Women ...
Sjogren is author of a book of film theory that reassesses subjectivity, the female voice and sound in film: Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film. She co-founded the production company Dire Wolf in 2007.
Britta Sjogren is an award-winning independent filmmaker living and working in San Francisco. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for her filmmaking for the development of A Chain of Windows. Her book, Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film was published in 2006 by the University of Illinois Press.
