Anders Edström (born 1966) is a Swedish film director and photographer, living in Tokyo.
His films, made with long-time collaborator C.W. Winter, include ''
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)'' (2020).
Life and work
Edström was born in
Frösön
Frösön (, ; " Frey's island") is the largest island in the lake Storsjön, Jämtland, Sweden. Part of the city Östersund is located on the island. During most of recorded history Frösön was the regional centre of Jämtland, and it is the loc ...
, Jämtland, Sweden.
In the 1990s he lived in Paris, working as a
fashion photographer with
Maison Margiela and ''
Purple
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'' magazine. He continues to work in fashion.
Edström has had a long-time creative filmmaking collaboration with C.W. Winter. Their feature film ''The Anchorage'' (2009) "follows the everyday existence of an elderly woman who lives alone on an island on the Stockholm archipelago." It won the
Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Present award at the
Locarno Film Festival
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and the Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award at the
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
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Background
Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles
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. Their eight-hour-long fictional film, ''
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)'' (2020), is set in the remote rural village of Shiotani, Japan. Edström's photobook, named after the village and published in 2021, documents the literal life of his wife's family there between 1993 and 2015.
Personal life
, Edström lived in Tokyo with his wife and two children.
Films
*''One Plus One 2'' (2003) – with C.W. Winter; starring
Derek Bailey
*''The Anchorage'' (2009) – with C.W. Winter
*''
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)'' (2020) – with C.W. Winter
Publications
Books by Edström
*''Waiting Some Birds a Bus a Woman and Spidernets Places a Crew''. SteidlMack, 2004. .
*''Safari''. Zurich: Nieves, 2010. .
*''Hanezawa Garden''. London:
Mack, 2015. . With an essay by C.W. Winter in English and Japanese.
*''Loops''. Estate Of series. London:
Antenne, 2020. . In English.
*''Shiotani''. Japan: AKPE, 2021. . With essays by Jeff Rian and C.W. Winter in English and Japanese.
*''Enköping, 1986''. AKPE, 2024. With essays by Jeff Rian and C.W. Winter in English and Japanese. . Edition of 700 copies. Photographs made in and around
Enköping
Enköping is a locality and the seat of Enköping Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 30,000 inhabitants in 2018.
Geography
Enköping is situated near Lake Mälaren, about 78 km west of Stockholm.
A comparably large number of S ...
, Sweden.
Books with others
*''The Buckshot Lexicon''. By Jeff Rian. Paris:
Purple Books, 2000. .
References
External links
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1966 births
Living people
People from Östersund Municipality
Swedish film directors
21st-century Swedish photographers
21st-century Swedish screenwriters