The idea of my short film Lagom Svensk, which has shaped my artistic research throughout several months of my studies at SKH, actually came from a personal experience.
One day someone stopped me in public and asked me to "go home". I didn't fully understand what I heard then, and I kept remembering that, trying to make sense of it, until I eventually decided to write about the encounter. That event then became a scene in a feature film, called Nothing Special About This, that I started writing a couple of months after I got admitted to Stockholm University of the Arts. Following screenwriting discussions with my teacher, I later decided to make that scene a moive, and so it became Lagom Svensk.
A pursuit to dramatize a personal experience which included other people in the process, like actors. The aim of storytelling here is to turn the perosnal into a public or collective experience where the viewers at the end get absorbed in the idea so that they understand it and get moved by it.