Late on Earth
2011 | 12 min | Sweden
Director and screenwriter: John Skoog
Cinematographer: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
Editor: John Skoog
Sound design: David Gülich, Fredrik Wallberg
Producers: Josefin Granqvist, Helene Granqvist
Ten tableaux filmed around Kvidinge at dusk, the hour between dog and wolf, brings forth the people and flatlands of Skåne. A girl smoking in a cornfield, violet skies and sparsely exchanged words form a quiet portrait of a world held between intimacy, exhaustion and threat.
Shadowland
2014 | 15 min | Sweden
Director and screenwriter: John Skoog
Cinematographers: Maria von Hausswolff, Adam Wallensten
Editor: John Skoog
Sound design: David Gülich
Producer: Erik Hemmendorff
Across California, Skoog revisits landscapes once used by Hollywood to represent distant parts of the world. Filmed as they appear today and inhabited by sounds from the old films, these locations become unmoored from geography and time—a landscape reconstructed through cinema’s memory.
Federsee
2011 | 12 min | Sweden
Director: John Skoog
Cinematographer: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
Sound design, editing and mix: David Gülich
Producers: Erik Hemmendorff, John Skoog
In Bad Buchau, southern Germany, the traditional Fasnet carnival unfolds beneath the shadow of a local story about a father who drowned his family in nearby Lake Federsee. Skoog’s attentive camera turns masks, faces and a bus journey into an enigmatic portrait of ritual in a disenchanted world.
Reduit
2014 | 15 min | Sweden
Director and producer: John Skoog
Cinematographer: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
Sound design: David Gülich
Tactile camera movement maps a deserted house in southern Sweden, encased in iron and concrete. Fragmentary voices remember the man who built it—a figure who both frightened and fascinated those around him—leaving the structure as a monument to loneliness, fear and paranoia.
