In 2001, Nils Petter Löfstedt traveled to Göteborg. It was the EU summit, he was going to sleep at Hvitfeldtska and had his camera with him – to work on realising his dream of becoming a photographer. It didn’t turn out the way he had planned. Police cordoned off the school, sent in mounted police, and arrested 459 people, without anything to charge them for. After the excessive violence, the events in the city escalated into what would become known as the Göteborg Riots. Twenty years later, Löfstedt (Heaven’s Dark Room) seeks out the people in his – now found and developed – atmospheric photos (yes, he became a photographer) and talks about what happened and what was lost forever. It is emotional, it makes the heart beat hard in your chest, and the anger and the will to fight awaken in your body.
Film features footage from a long lost video tape discovered 20 years on in shed on a farm in Sweden that Izzy Brown threw out the window of a Swedish detention centre before she was deported after the riots.
In conjunction with MIDFF join us for a screening of School Under Siege at the Catalyst social centre in Sydney Rd Coburg.
Monday 24.7
Dinner 6pm with cafe collective.
Film starts at 6:30
