The Passenger

A fictional biographical portrayal of Eleonora of Bavaria.

A container with stuff from a cleaned out apartment in Stockholm drives the cineaste to look for their owners. In the course of this quest, he meets the actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård and the author Stig Larsson. The desire to give meaning where perhaps there is none.

Eric M Nilsson talks to his mother over the years when they lived during German occupation in Belgium. Over a box of things from those years his father left behind, they helped together to remember.

Europe 1900 (1968) tells about the history of luxury while problematizing memory and our images of the past.

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

"Bläckfiskens bok" is made up of three short films ("Första resan", "Drömresan" and "Sista resan"). While making these movies, Nilsson tried to put himself in an artificial depression in order to see the world as an angry and sad man. "My mind functions like a spider's web: all the images, all the ideas, all the sentences, all the idiocies stick. Thus am I a prisoner."

According to Eric M Nilsson, this is an utterly unsuccesful film. It's a film about things he saw but never understood. If two people gaze upon the same thing, one of them will claim to experience something else. In this, they receive evidence that they exist, because the individual understands comparisons — but hates similarities.

A four day car trip: a pop music group hits the road in winter from Stockholm to Kiruna, above the Arctic Circle. One of the first films in Sweden shot with the Éclair NPR, a light, silent camera allowing the recording of sync sound.

With the gloomy, mountain of the Cévennes in the backdrop, the filmmaker interviews an aging village clergyman, who shares his wisdom and perspective on life.

An autobiographical film about Eric M. Nilsson's experiences of Swedish health care and the limits of polite society.

In the autumn of 1968, Director Eric M. Nilsson and film team accompany Swedish opera singer Birgit Nilsson during the many-faceted events of her life, on and off stage.

A film by Eric M. Nilsson.

Resa med en vän [Travel With A Friend] is a poetic documentary where singer-songwriter Olle Adolphson and filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson travels to Southern France and Northern Spain, where the mountains meets the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Mediterranean Sea in the East.

The English writer and composer, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, relaxed in Italy tells the full story of his life. Filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson met with Anthony Burgess by chance in 1982. They decided to make a film.

Documentary about the thermal springs in Le Mont Dore, France and the people who believe in the healing power of the water.