Most of the research focus on minor cinemas and has been carried out within the scope of extensive research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council: Swedish Experimental Cinema (2006-08); The Stockholm Film Workshop and the Cultural Politics of Minor Cinemas (2010-12); The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking (2013-2015); and a current project together with Miguel Fernández Labayen (Madrid) on the histories of the New American Cinema tours in Europe and the emergence of European experimental film cultures (2021-2024). In addition, there are a number of historically and historiographically oriented projects about minor cinemas, for example on the Swedish history and context of the legendary documentary "Finally Got the News" (1970). Of the latter there is an article forthcoming in the journal Black Camera vol. 15.

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• ULKOMAALAINEN/UTLÄNNINGEN/YABANCI (1979-1981-1983) - A MOST TYPICAL MIGRANT ARCHIVAL OBJECT

  2022. John Sundholm. L'Atalante 34, 103-114

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  This article explores the history and archival trajectory of the Finnish-Swedish-Turkish film Ulkomaalainen/Utlänningen/Yabanci [Foreigner], made by the Turkish immigrant Muammer Özer. By examining the connection between the history of its production and of the distribution of its various versions, it is argued that this film constitutes “a most typical migrant archival object’. This kind of film is always a fugitive object, and thus both archiving and programming has to consider its heterogeneous history as well as its multiple forms and versions.

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