Här är karusellen (1994)

Kajsa Hedström
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Original title	Här är karusellen
Swedish release title	Här är karusellen
Title alternative spelling	Revolver

Director	Jonas Odell Lars Ohlson Stig Bergqvist Martti Ekstrand
Producer	Jonas Odell
Film Commissioner	Bo-Erik Gyberg

Production Company	Filmtecknarna F. Animation AB
	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Folkets Bio AB

A drowning figure with three fingers and jar-lid eyes tries to keep its head above water. Shellfish with baby faces scream as they’re fished from the sea. An arguing couple rip a mouth off of each other. A fish is flattened by a rolling pin on a baking table. A face becomes a shapeless mass of eyes and openings when someone looks away.

 

Här är karusellen (literally ‘Here is the Carousel’) also has another title: Revolver. In Latin, revolvere means to roll back, to return. Every single scene is a loop. Everything is repeated, over and over again.

 

The film, drawn and made in black and white 2D animation, won a raft of international prizes. In 2006 Jonas Odell’s Never Like the First Time (Aldrig som första gången), an animated documentary made with various animation techniques, won a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

 

Här är karusellen has been digitally restored by the Swedish Film Institute and is available with English subtitles.

Censorship number	133247
Date	1995-03-29
Classification	Allowed from age 11
Original length	224 meters

Aspect ratio	1.37:1
Colour type	Black and white
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in minutes	6 min
Reels	1 reels

Festival showing	1994-02-06	Haga 1	Gothenburg	Sweden	6 min	(Svenska filmens dag)
	1994-02-07	Haga 1	Gothenburg	Sweden	6 min	(Svenska filmens dag)
	2015-01-26	Haga 1	Gothenburg	Sweden	6 min	38:e Göteborg International Film Festival 2015. Svensk animation 100 år.
VOD release	2015-02-23	Filmarkivet.se		Sweden

Golden Gate	San Francisco	1995			(bästa animerade film)
Festival Award	Ottawa	1995
Prix Spécial du Jury	Montreal	1995			(animationsklassen)
Festival Award	Uppsala	1994			(bästa animerade film)
	Hiroshima	1994			(specialpris; Animation Film Festival)
	Reykjavík	1994			(hedersomnämnande för bästa experimentfilm; Nordisk Panorama)

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Här är karusellen (1994)

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Aspect ratio	1.37:1
Sound type	Sound
Colour type	Black and white
Frames per second	24
Length in minutes	9 min

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