Ruben Östlund
Encyclopedia
Ruben Östlund is a Swedish film director. Originally a director of skiing film, he has directed three feature-length fiction films: The Guitar Mongoloid
from 2004, Involuntary
from 2008 and Play, scheduled to be released in 2011.
, from which he graduated in 2001. He was accepted to the school based on his skiing films. Together with film producer Erik Hemmendorff he is the co-founder of the production company Plattform Produktion, which produces his films. Östlund's short film Incident by a Bank won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival
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The Guitar Mongoloid
The Guitar Mongoloid is a 2004 Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund, about different people living outside the norms in the fictional city Jöteborg, strikingly similar to real-life Göteborg...
from 2004, Involuntary
Involuntary (film)
Involuntary is a 2008 Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund described as "a tragic comedy or comic tragedy." It features five parallel stories with human group behaviour as the common theme. The film is notable for its long takes with no cuts within the scenes. This is related to Östlund's...
from 2008 and Play, scheduled to be released in 2011.
Career
Ruben Östlund started as a director of skiing films in the 1990s, and eventually went on to study at the film school in GothenburgGothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
, from which he graduated in 2001. He was accepted to the school based on his skiing films. Together with film producer Erik Hemmendorff he is the co-founder of the production company Plattform Produktion, which produces his films. Östlund's short film Incident by a Bank won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival
60th Berlin International Film Festival
The 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 11 to February 21, 2010, with Werner Herzog as President of the Jury. The opening film of the festival was Chinese director Wang Quan'an's romantic drama Apart Together, in competition, while the closing film is Japanese...
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Filmography
| Year | English title | Original title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Addicted | Skiing film | |
| 1997 | Free Radicals | Skiing film | |
| 1998 | Free Radicals 2 | Skiing film | |
| 2000 | Låt dom andra sköta kärleken | Documentary | |
| 2002 | Family Again | Familj igen | Documentary |
| 2004 | The Guitar Mongoloid The Guitar Mongoloid The Guitar Mongoloid is a 2004 Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund, about different people living outside the norms in the fictional city Jöteborg, strikingly similar to real-life Göteborg... |
Gitarrmongot | Fiction feature |
| 2005 | Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 | Scen nr: 6882 ur mitt liv | Fiction short |
| 2008 | Involuntary Involuntary (film) Involuntary is a 2008 Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund described as "a tragic comedy or comic tragedy." It features five parallel stories with human group behaviour as the common theme. The film is notable for its long takes with no cuts within the scenes. This is related to Östlund's... |
De ofrivilliga | Fiction feature |
| 2009 | Incident by a Bank | Händelse vid bank | Fiction short |
| 2011 | Play | Fiction feature | |
External links
- Plattform Produktion official website
- Plattform Produktion at YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....