John Skoog
John SKOOG graduated from the Art Academy in Frankfurt. His films have been shown at numerous film festivals and art museums in Sweden and internationally, such as the Berlin International Film Festival, Moderna Museet and Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm, Museum of the Moving Image & PS1 MOMA in New York, IDFA, London Film Festival, True/False, Modern Museum in Wien and the Modern Museum in Frankfurt am Main. His short films have won both Startsladden and 1km film awards, the two main prizes for short films in Sweden, as well as several prizes in the art world and at international film festivals.
His first feature film Säsong (Ridge) won CPH:DOX in 2019. John has been a professor of film at the Art Academy in Mainz since 2016.
Filmography
Sent på Jorden/Late on Earth (2011, short), Förår/Fores (2013, short), Reduit (2014, short), Shadowland (2015, short), Säsong/Ridge (2019)
John Skoog at IFFR
Redoubt
Affected by the powerful images in the pamphlet If the war comes, farmhand Karl-Göran Persson begins fortifying his house. Through years of harvesting scrap-metal, he transforms it into a fortress meant to protect him and his neighbours when the enemy attacks.
96'
Sweden
CM 2023
Förår
18'
Sweden
IFFR 2013