“In filmmaking you can either start with fiction or documentary, " says JEAN-LUC GODARD. "But whichever you start with, you will inevitably find the other. "The career of Stefan Jarl, one of Sweden's leading filmmakers, has indeed covered both award winning documentary films and more recently, featurelength films. In either form, Jarl has continuously related his unique vision of man as product of, or rebel against society.
His film debut came in 1968 with THEY CALL US MISFITS, which came to be the first part in a trilogy. The other parts came in 1979 with A DECENT LIFE and in 1992 with MISFITS TO YUPPIES. With this trilogy he opened up a new direction in Swedish cinema.
Stefan Jarl's unique position in Swedish cinema owes also much to his trusty collaborators, who are known as "The Gang of Four": PER KÄLLBERG (cameraman), ANETTE LYKKE LUNDBERG (film editor), ULF DAGEBY (music) and PER CARLESSON (sound engineer and mixer).
'Jarl is forever roaming about the outer limits of the documentary, "says filmmaker and author CARL-HENRIK SVENSTEDT. With NATURE's REVENGE (1983) and TIME HAS NO NAME (1989), Jarl asks us to reflect on Time itself as well as on Nature. Drawing inspiration from his youth spent in the countryside, as well as from ARNE SUCKSDORFF's nature films, Jarl creates a "furious defense of the quiet life." As expressed by Svenstedt: “It is a soulful depiction of Nature", no doubt one of the great themes explored by Swedish cinema over the last century.
With his fictional feature film debut as writer and director of GOOD PEOPLE (1990) as well as with NATURE'S WARRIOR (1998), Stefan Jarl captures on film the tacit realm where fiction becomes reality and vice versa.
Stefan Jarl has received several international awards over the years, among them the FELIX AWARD, the European "Oscar."
His films have regularly been chosen for the FORUM OF NEW CINEMA at the BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL. A retrospective of his work has toured the world, and at the TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL in Colorado he was awarded the Silver Medallion as "one of Europe's leading documentary filmmakers."
According to INGMAR BERGMAN, documentary filmmaker Stefan Jarl definitively belongs to the small circle of "extremely talented madmen" who have enriched Swedish cinema. "One of the last great samurai who unyieldingly fights for ideals and convictions. In our 'heavy industry' there aren’t many like him." INGMAR BERGMAN states.
Edward Noeltner, SF
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Stefan Jarl, född 18 mars 1941, dokumentärfilmare och filmregissör. Stefan Jarl är känd för att göra filmer med ett socialt engagemang. Stefan Jarl
