Planet Love is a series of works grafting a neo-psychedelic esthetic (through computeraided rotoscoping f.x.) onto life stories connected to a developing global solidarity - the dissolving boundaries in the images mirroring the inclusive ethics of the stories told, a geographical and temporal extension of inclusion.

Planet Love: Spanish Kalle - videoinstallation (main projection, video Footnotes on screens, posters, documents, targeted screenings)

Planet Love: Phantom Zone Projector - videoinstallation (main projection, video Footnotes on screens, posters, documents, targeted screenings)

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Phantom Zone Projector

Main projection (15 min.), video Footnotes on smaller screens, posters, documents, targeted screenings.

Film about the gap between an idea and its' realisation. Amir Heidari, smuggler of 200.000 refugees, is interviewed in Swedish prison. Talk split in three parts - personal history and philosophy; inventing points of entry into Schengen; daily life in prison.

Also features portraits of contemporary activist youth.

Film shown together with documents of courtroom testimony, the final plea of Amir Heidari. Poster and badges.

Video Footnote - Music Keeps Me Connected on anonymous illegal immigrant trying to stay out of sight of the Swedish authorities, but performing as a musician in front of hundreds of people.

Video Prologue: December 21, 1958 on the origins of the idea for the Dream Machine.

Premiered in solo-exhibition at Agence Borderline in Luxembourg, June 2007. Shown at Swedish Office Of Migration, incl. workshop, August 2007.

Poster as 50 x 70 PDF >>

Ortigas played live at the opening in Luxembourg (see A Lot Of Life Is 'Waiting' under Classics for more on Ortigas)

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Spanish Kalle

Main projection (20 min.), video Footnotes on smaller screens, posters, documents, targeted screenings.

Main projection tells the story of Karl Staf, last survivor of the 500 Swedish volunteers in the Spanish civil war. Active in the resistance during WWII, sentenced to death for espionage by Nazi occupation forces, survived labour camp and various South American prisons. As a reporter lived in Moscow, China and Cuba, met Krustjev, Zhou Englai, Castro. Kalle is 90 years old, lives in Helsingborg now.

Also features portraits of contemporary activist youth.

Music for the film are five re-recorded songs of the Spanish Civil War - Ay Carmela, A Las Barricadas, Himno Del Riego, Si Me Quieres Escribir, En El Plaza De Ni Pueblo.

Spanish Kalle premiered summer 2007 (early version) as a double projection at museu La Panera in Lleida, a city at the northern end of the old Ebro frontline where Kalle had fought 70 years before.

Posters produced at the Imprenta Boqueron in Buenos Aires, series of ten. Texts taken from original propaganda posters of the Spanish Civil War.

Footnotes - documents negotiating a death sentence, the first in a series of video Footnotes complementing the main projection of Spanish Kalle. This one consists of a series of formerly classified documents detailing the dealings and negotiations between the Swedish Foreign Office and the German envoy, as they try to come up with a rate of exchange for extraditing or, as a compromise, pardoning a Swedish citizen. Lots to be read between the lines - how Sweden had camps for conscripted communists during the war; how the parents of Staaf weren't notified of his death sentence for fear that they would tell the Swedish press, which might influence the Swedish opinion against Germany unfavorably; etc.