A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Stockholm, Sweden
Born:
January 1, 1929
Björn Lüning started out making experimental film in 1946. He was interested in film as a way of experimenting with form and rhythm and thought of it as a mean of expression among others like painting, poetry, and music. During the 1950s he first came in contact with Svensk Experimentfilmstudio (later called Arbetsgruppen för film). Between 1946 and 1953, Björn Lüning conducted several sketches and experiments on 9,5 and 16 mm film. To this date, it’s still unknown whether these still exist. They were shown in private screenings reserved for avant-garde filmmakers, held between 1948-1952. During this time he was also frequently working together with other experimental filmmakers such as Eivor Burbeck, Carl Gyllenberg och Mihail Livada in various projects.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.