CRITICAL
OVERVIEW:
Chris
Löfvén's career is, by any standards, incomplete. A precocious
talent, his career stalled when his ambitious Wizard of Oz-inspired
feature Oz - A Rock 'n' Roll Road Movie failed with both
the critics and public. Yet David Stratton labelled it "one
of the most inventive and enjoyable of Australian films - clever,
brash, noisy, gutsy and uninhibited". Earlier, Löfvén
had shown great imagination with his 16mm narrative shorts, John
Nicoll calling House with a Secret and Forgotten Loneliness
"completely modern in tone, effective and subtle ... [they
have] a gentle and playful mood". Löfvén
has also been interested in more classical avant-garde cinema,
as evidenced by his Part One and Part Two films,
and his recent work.
FILMOGRAPHY:
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Teenager
with a vision:
Chris Löfvén
in 1964.
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The Tunnel
(1963, 3 mins, color, 16mm)
House
with a Secret (1964, 6 mins, B&W, 16mm)
Forgotten
Loneliness (1965, 8 mins, B&W, 16mm)
Gift from
a Stranger (1965, 7 mins, B&W, 16mm)
The Warning
(1966, 7 mins, B&W, 16mm)
Helen
(1967, 2 mins, B&W, 16mm)
"Something
About Your Baby" (The Vibrants) (1967, 3 mins, B&W,
16mm, music clip)
"Sorry"
(The Groop) (1967, 3 mins, B&W, 16mm, music clip)
Part One
- 806 (1969-71, 70 mins, B&W, 16mm)
Part Two
- The Beginning (1971, 10 mins, color, 16mm)
"I'll
be Gone" (Spectrum) (1971, 4 mins, B&W, 16mm)
"Eagle
Rock" (Daddy Cool) (1971, 4 mins, B&W, 16mm)
Cruisin'
(London, 1973-74, 36 mins, color, 16mm)
"Good
Toon" (Sweet Feed) (London, 1974, 4 mins, color, 16mm)
OZ - A
Rock 'n' Roll Road Movie (1976, 90 mins, color, 35mm)
followed
by numerous music clips, commercials and a music doco:
Stockley
See Mason 'Beg, Steal or Borrow' (1979, 50 mins, color, 16mm)
again followed
by more music clips, commercials and corporate video.
Recent experimental
works:
Bass Up
(2001, 4 mins, color, video)
Window
(2002, 4 mins, color, video)
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
David Stratton,
The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus &
Robertson, Sydney, 1980.
John Nicoll,
"Lucky dip images on show", The Age, May 23,
1986.
Contact
Chris Löfvén
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