Songs from the Second Floor

Songs from the Second Floor 2000

7.10

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

2000

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 2014

6.90

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

2014

About Endlessness

About Endlessness 2019

6.51

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

2019

You, the Living

You, the Living 2007

7.07

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

2007

So Terribly Unnecessary

So Terribly Unnecessary 1979

1

Documentary about children and accidents focusing on a family who lost their son who fell down a well.

1979

Obsessions du deuxième étage

Obsessions du deuxième étage 2000

1

A portrait of the Swedish director Roy Andersson, dealing with obsessions of the film maker considered as the origins of his last incredible project : Songs from the Second Floor. 20 years of reflection and creation, 4 years to shoot a masterpiece with a unique way of filming. A meeting with the Nordic Kubrick, rebel with a cause : responsibility and humanity.

2000