Research Catalogue

Erik Gandini is an Italian-Swedish film director, writer, and producer and professor of

documentary film at Stockholm University of the Arts. He has produced and directed numerous

internationally acclaimed documentaries including Surplus – Terrorized into Being Consumers

which won the Main Prize at IDFA 2003 and was screened at over 70 festivals around the

world. Videocracy was shown at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto IFF, IDFA in 2009 and was

nominated for a DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX. In 2015, The Swedish Theory of Love premiered

at the Stockholm International Film Festival and went on a successful international festival

tour (CPH:DOX, IDFA) and was theatrically released in many territories. He produced The

Raft by Marcus Lindeen which won numerous international awards, e.g. the main competition

at CPH:DOX in 2018.

After Work is his latest feature doc, premiered in CPH:DOX International competition, Hot Docs, Vision Du Reél. The film is developed in connection with his Artistic Research project THE FUTURE THROUGH THE PRESENT, in collaboration with Sociologist Roland Paulsen and Professor in Film Jyoti Mistry/Valand, granted three years funding from the Swedish Research Council.