Gunilla Heilborn Special
Gunilla Heilborn is a choreographer and film maker based in Stockholm.
Heilborn has created performances and films with great success for both adults and children. Her unique way of combining text, movement, video and images, always spiced with humour, has captured the interest of audiences all over the world. She intelligently and poetically dissolves the line between seriousness and humour.
Heilborn studied radio and film at the Nordic Folk High School and choreography at DOCH in Stockholm and with Anna Halprin at the San Francisco Dancers workshop. Her international success as a choreographer came with the work Potato country 2007 and since then she has created numerous works that have been presented at festivals such as Tanz Im August, Dance Umbrella Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Potsdamer Tanztage and many more.
Gunilla Heilborn has also enjoyed great success as a film maker. The film How to do, created with Mårten Nilsson and Kim Hiorthøy, won a Guldbagge Award in 2007 for best short film. The film Alaska was awarded 'Best International Short Film' at Expresión en Córto in Mexico in 2010.
"The best novel in the world" - Anna Karenina
Choreographer Gunilla Heilborn, director Ragna Wei and Stefan Ingvarsson, former cultural counsellor in Moscow in an interview on SR and P1, Good Morning World. Here you can hear about the background to Gunilla's latest work 37 hours and 3 minutes, which she describes as a flawed mapping of Tolstoy's masterpiece Anna Karenina.
This is Alaska
A group of people have moved to Alaska. They want to find a way of life that provides a greater degree of freedom. This short film by Gunilla Heilborn won the 2009 Uppsala International Film Festival and was the best international short film in the fiction category at Expresión en Corté in Mexico.Cast: Kim Hiorthøy, Louise Peterhoff, Kristiina Viiala, Henrik Vikman, Lisa Östberg. Director: Gunilla , Mårten Nilsson, Screenplay: Gunilla Heilborn, Photography: Mårten Nilsson, B-photo: Adam Nilsson, Sound: Svante Tidholm, Music: Kim Hiorthøy, Editing: Mårten Nilsson, Producer: Mårten Nilsson, gnufilm.
Rewind
Another short film by Gunilla Heilborn. It is about Henry moving into a house. The film was nominated for a Guldbagge award for best short film in 2003.Participants: Helena Franzén, Anna Källblad, Sandra Medina, Tove Sahlin, Staffan Eek, Garp, Jukka Korpi, Henrik Vikman, Voiceover: Stephen Rappaport, Direction: Gunilla Heilborn, Mårten Nilsson, Screenplay: Gunilla Heilborn, Mårten Nilsson, Producer: Lisbet Gabrielsson, Photo: Mårten Nilsson, Music: Kim Hiorthøy, Choreographer: Gunilla Heilborn, Set/Costume: Katarina Wiklund, Food: Ulla Lannér
Danspodden Isadora
Gunilla Heilborn shares life now, life then and what the future will look like.