ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a first-hand account of director, producer, and editor Christina Olofson’s work in film and television during the 1970s, combining interview and analytical context. The chapter outlines how Olofson’s travels in Canada in the early 1970s influenced her career; she was inspired by the National Film Board/Office National du film (NFB/ONF) Challenge for Change documentary film project and also met legendary editor Ulla Ryghe, who worked for the NFB/ONF. In her early career, Olofson worked as an editor at Swedish Television and was later one of the founders of Hagafilm, a company producing both documentaries and fiction films into the 1990s, when the company was renamed CO.FILM. Alongside her then partner Göran du Reés, Olofson was part of the creative and alternative circles in 1970s Gothenburg. Among other things, they documented the Tent project in 1977 resulting in the film Tältet—vem tillhör världen (“The Tent—Who Owns This World?,” Christina Olofson and Göran du Rées, Sweden, 1978). In this interview, Olofson contemplates her work experiences, her engagement in the Swedish Women’s Film Association and the political and creative climate in the Swedish 1970s.
