Pojktanten biography
- While enjoying the bath and shaving each other's legs, they think up a story together about a fantasy world called Pojktanten.
- Pojktanten.
- In this very personal, sensual, colorful and genre- and gender-breaking documentary movie about love, you'll see how important it is to find real love.
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Ester Martin Bergsmark
Swedish film director and screenwriter
Ester Martin Bergsmark | |
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Bergsmark in 2017 | |
| Born | 1982 (age 42–43) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Occupation(s) | Swedish film director and screenwriter |
Ester Martin Bergsmark (born 1982) is a Swedish movie director and screenwriter of the documentaries Maggie in Wonderland and She Male Snails. Bergsmark's first fiction feature Something Must Break (2014) has been shown in more than fifty film festivals. The film has won ten awards, including the Tiger Award, 43rd Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Grand Jury Award in Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival or Best Film and Best Performance for Saga Becker in the Lisbon International Queer Film Festival.
Biography
Bergsmark was born in 1982, in Stockholm, Sweden. They studied documentary filmmaking at Biskops Arnö Nordens Folkhögskola and were also trained at the Swedish University College of Arts Crafts and Design.[1][2] Together with Swedish director Mark Hammarberg, Bergsmark directed the short film S “The first time I saw Eli, I was seventeen. I saw him at a distance. Someone, who dared to be more than just a boy or a girl.” Director Ester Martin Bergsmark recounts his first impression of writer, protagonist and subject of his film, Eli Levén. From their conversations in the bathtub as kindred spirits a magical dream is being born born – a dream of a new cinematic form, of grasping identity inside an androgynous body, of childhood and of growing up. This authentic and novel documentary approaches reshaping shared fantasies into materialized images, searching through extravagant costumes, nature's eternal beauty, achy pasts and artistic self-expression as a means of survival in the borderland between reality and fiction. This visually, experimentally and intimately riveting filmic essay has been charming audiences and festival juries alike on its world tour beginning with its triple victory at the Göteborg International Film Festival. Eli and Ester will arrive at Mezipatra from Berlin, where they are preparing a new project together. When I was a kid, Copyright ©popfray.pages.dev 2025•
She Male Snails / Pojktanten
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Movie Scripts
I thought that snails changed shells.
I thought it was a beautiful idea,
changing your home, your exterior.
The idea that your body
wasn't linked to who you are.
I actually believed that
up to now.
I never realized that all those
empty shells were dead snails.
The first time I saw Eli,
I was 17.
I saw him at a distance.
I was fascinated by his androgyny
and his long red hair.
Finally, someone who dared
to be more than just a boy or a girl.
He had a name for his rebellion:
Boy Hag-Lady.
I think I'm in love.
I've cut down on my meds,
so I might get some crazy ideas.
The theme is Gothic.
I was thinking of a dead tree.
I feel like one at times.
I wrote it as a metaphor
in my journals when I was 16.
I compared my life
to pruning a tree.
I would have to cut off certain
parts of myself to make it work.
I've decided to invite
a few people I love...
and say goodbye
to my youth.
Which has been hellish...
And embrace the fate
that awaits me.
Whatever it may be.
Youth is dead.
Here's to youth.
SHE MALE SNAILS