Work

Set between 2019 and 2022, this poetic documentary captures Sweden at a turning point. As gang violence and political extremism rise, the conservative right-wing nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats, gains unprecedented influence. Meanwhile, the pandemic, climate crisis, and the return of war to Europe reshape the collective consciousness.

Yet amid these sweeping changes, everyday life goes on: children play, families gather, people fall in love and grow older. Through quiet observation and emotional depth, the film reveals how history unfolds not only in headlines, but in the subtle rhythms of daily life. A deeply human story about identity and the moments that connect us, even as the world shifts beneath our feet.

A proposal for a mobile four-screen screening room, developed at the intersection of film, architecture and existential health.

The prototype is intended to explore how surrounding projection might support contemplation and stress management, and how form shapes perception. It continues the four-screen practice of Images and the Worlds of Being, in dialogue with interdisciplinary collaborators.

Supported by Kulturbryggan / Konstnärsnämnden, in collaboration with the Finnish industrial designer Harri Koskinen of Friends of Industry, Helsinki.

Developed as the principal artistic work of my doctoral research in Film and Media (Lund University, 2017), Images and the Worlds of Being explores documentary film as a spatial encounter rather than a linear narrative. In a four-screen environment — later developed into cinema and VR versions — the viewer enters a perceptual field where orientation, listening and embodied attention become active elements in the creation of meaning.

The work established a method in which spatial configuration forms part of the narrative logic — a line of enquiry that continues in my later documentary films.

Feature-length documentary.

Feature-length documentary. As a child, he didn’t speak for seven years; as an adolescent, he embarked on a career as a punk rocker with a rich repertoire of songs — he’s done it all, including medieval chant and the Kurt Weill canon.

Cinema premiere in 1999 in Sweden. Screened at the Cinemateket Classic Films Programme 2016/2017 in Stockholm and in Gothenburg.

A rhythmic, atmospheric film in which sound, movement and tempo carry the story without narration.

The clip here is raw outtakes from the shoot, uploaded to Morgan Ågren’s own channel.

During filming, even the bravest participants were unwilling to speak on camera. What I initially regarded as a serious failure became the film’s central condition. A reviewer later described it as portraying the situation from within.

The film was screened in Sweden through Folkets Bio.