Poet: Eva Ström

Mor säger att det är ett minne / Mother says that it’s a memory by Eva Ström

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The filmmaker Marc Neys A.K.A. Swoon writes,

My last video for 2015 is also my most personal. Mor säger att det är ett minne ​is a poem by Eva Ström I found on lyrikline earlier this year. ​I decided to use it with the footage I shot during my mother’s last week. […]

I used the audio by Mechner (Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2005) as base for the music. Around Eva’s reading I composed a frail piece of music using only a piano and an old clock; [SoundCloud link]

The translation by Maria Freij was used as subtitles. […]

In the film you see my mother clipping her nails after bath. She had come home to die (after her decision to stop all treatment and medication). She wanted to spend her last days at home, with her children close by.

I am well aware that this video speaks to me and my family on a whole other level, but I also believe that the combination of this footage with the poem and the music works well for other people…

Thanks to Marc for his willingness to share such personal footage and go so deep.