Mothership, aka Josefin ́s mother, shoots beer cans while singing Den blomstertid nu
kommer (Now the time of blossoming arrives) a popular Swedish hymn enchanting
the forthcoming summer times often sung by children’s last day of school before
summer break.
(Besides a recurrent team of non-actors, my own mother is an important source and
character. I guess you can say, scarily enough, that she is my muse. In a series of
video works my mom plays herself while slipping in and out as “Mothership” which
is a projected version of a mother, a character that I chose to direct her into. One of
the first works I developed with my mother is the documentary Mothership goes to
Brazil (2016) where I bring my alcoholic mother to a spiritual centre in Brazil to
visit one of the world’s most famous healers called John of God. (Today Joahn of
God is accused of sexual harassment from hundreds of women world wide. It has
been the biggest #meetoo scandal in Brazil).)