Award-Winning Music at Sveriges Kortfilmfestival!

I am thrilled to announce that my original score for the film The Source has been honoured with the Best Music award at the prestigious Sveriges Kortfilmfestival! This recognition is a testament to my love for cinema and my dedication to creating music. A thank you to the festival judges for this incredible honour and to Gilda Stillbäck for taking me on board this project. This is the first of many awards as I continue pursuing my passion for film music. 

Best Theme - Sofia Norlin & Gilda Stillbäck
"This year's theme award goes to a film that raises its voice without saying a single word. A beautiful, poetic, and colourful film in black and white that, without preaching, explores questions about our existence and how we continue to raise our voices through generations. From the first stone, the wind, the drop, and the look, we are drawn into the action and held there. We are allowed to think, feel, and strive together. Together, we raise our voices!"

Best Music - Erika Vega
"From the very first note, we listen! The music not only brings life to the movements but also provides images that enhance them. It is shaking, trembling, and dynamic. And after the last note, the music remains with us."

Best Editing - Agathe Débary
"The rhythm of this film is very finely balanced. Every cut feels right, and nothing has been left to chance. The craft is perfected when music, sound, and image dance with each other."

Translations taken from @GildaStillbäck





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T H E  S O U R C E

Idea & choreography: Gilda Stillbäck
Direction: Sofia Norlin & Gilda Stillbäck
Director of photography Adam Nilsson
Music composition Erika Vega
Costume designer Maria Tapper 
Dancers Sandy Ceesay, Aloun Marchal, Matilda Larsson, Vincent Jonsson, Maria Pihl, Isac Hellman, Mpululu Ntuve, Melinda Jakobsson, Jasmine Attié
Director’s assistant Ali Quraishi
Choreography assistant Aloun Marchal
Costume assistant Matilda Tilly Madeon 
1st assistant camera Mårten Nilsson 
2nd assistant camera Matilda Wikingsson
Makeup artist Zhouying Dahlsjö 
Logistics, administration, location manager Jennifer B. Karlsson
Produced by Vanessa Labanino/Possibilitas & Gilda Stillbäck
With the support from: Swedish Arts Council, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, The City of Gothenburg, The Region of Östergötland, 
Collaboration partners Ödeshög Municipally, Alvastra Krönikespel, Bygdegårdens Vandrarhem, Hästgårdens Bygdegård

The Source  is an artistic research project on the meeting of dance art, film art and music. Our vision is to create a cinematic dance film - a poetic and meaningful fiction whose language is movement. Struggle, death, hope and rebirth are the themes we examine physically, rhythmically and visually with the aim of weaving together a story of survival and inheritance through generations.
The film is created and filmed at the ruins of the Alvastra monastery, a former Cistercian monastery founded in 1143 by French monks at Omberg in Ödeshög municipality. Through an organic and exploratory process, we develop choreography, directing, photography and dramaturgy on site.
For a timeless and epic feeling, we film in black and white,16 mm, with natural light. Inspired by Sven Nykvist, "the master of light", we look for images where movement, light and shadow add another poetic and spiritual dimension to our film. The Source is part of the 2022 Sven Nykvist Jubilee and will be premiered at the Bergmanweek summer 2022.
Gilda Stillbäck, 2022. 


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