My daughter has asked me to write about my mother, and I hesitate. I immediately seek out other themes, such as current events, current associations, or the spring light that hits the Iranian carpet in my living room. With its strong summer rays, it will fade the color of pomegranate in the evening light…
-Could you tell me a bit about your background, how you ended up moving to Los Angeles and how your life is now? I was born in Stockholm Sweden but never felt like I fit in. I was always too loud and never Swedish enough. By the age of 13 I went to…
When there is an obstacle, you have to rise to the challenge, not be overwhelmed by it. April 11th 2014. My youngest child, Leon was born. I’ve been trying to gather my thoughts around how I’ve changed on a personal level since then. It’s been a year since his final discharge from the hospital,…
I have been rewatching my film “Kjell” from 2005. The film is about an aging gay man reliving the past. I wanted this film to be an universal story about lost love and about not fitting in, something everyone could identify with. I wanted to show a human being i felt great affection for.…
After meeting Ondine in Tuscany 7 years ago she has become one of my dearest friends. We share the love for Val’ dorcia, where the little village of Pienza became her home in 2005 . When we met I had already spent every vacation there since I was 14. In the early 90’s my parents…
I was able to travel back home to Norway with my children for some time recently. As always I love browsing through the endless amount of photographs in my parents home. Their long marriage continue to fascinate me and sometimes annoy me. What sort of compromises they have done, their special love and acceptance…
When my friend Dana and I get to spend time together, there’s one topic in particular that comes up again and again : How do we organize our time? Do we have enough personal space? Sometimes it feels like everything we try to squeeze into our tight schedule of chores and accommodating has to be…
I have so much to say about LA. So many things I have started to write but not finished yet. I am writing about being a woman in this city, about single mothering, the life here seen from a European perspective, about longings, about isolation, about people i meet, the nature, raising children, about…
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” How did you end up working in photography and filmmaking? As…
As a woman and an actor, how do you feel about aging,getting older? I am terrified of aging. I have aging strategies. I’m always picking someone, Connie Britton, Kathryn Keener, Julianne Moore..and saying ok, she looks normal and beautiful, great hair, no face surgery that’s my forty-seven strategy, or that’s my fifty-three strategy. I guess though,…