
Åsa Sjöström
2021Den sista cirkusprinsessan
Åsa Sjöström, Åsa Sjöström
The film tells a story about a dying artform and a young girl, Simona. She has been living and working in the circus her whole life. A couple of years back they were three generations traveling with the circus. Will Simona be the last?
The Last Circus Princess
Mass, or Monument for a Capitalist Society
Åsa Sjöström
Mass was made during Sjöström’s years at the film department of the Royal College of Art, in cooperation with the London Filmmaker’s Co-op. Random or staged shots of people and settings in urban London are arranged and abstracted, double-exposed and solarized. The result is a dense texture filled with layers and associative dimensions. Mass is a film attempting to convey, by strictly filmic means, the cooped-up feeling of the individual in the grey mass of the city. The absurd concrete city landscape is visualized through the unspoilt and naked eye of the camera in a concentrated mosaic of images and sound.
Mass, or Monument for a Capitalist Society