A passage between two buildings, a nail salon, a stairwell, a badminton hall, an atrium, a hospital culvert. Life takes place. With the small details of existence in focus, rather than the larger narratives and conflicts, fragments are connected to a possible outcome.
In mathematics, the word discrete is used to describe objects that are not continuous and separated from each other. Discrete mathematics is applied in a number of different areas such as encryption, databases, game theory, graph theory and algorithms.
SCREENINGS: Premiere at 47:rd Göteborg Film Festival, 2024.
DISTRIBUTION: Filmform
ORIGINAL TITLE: Diskret Matematik
DIRECTING, DOP, EDITING & SCRIPT: Vanja Sandell Billström & Lucia Pagano
PRODUCERS: Vanja Sandell Billström & Lucia Pagano
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ami-Ro Sköld, Onoma Productions AB Tackjärnsgatan 3 417 07 Göteborg https://www.onomaproductions.com/
SOUND DESIGN & MIX: Ted Krotkiewski
GRADING: Annika Pehrson
Scenes of people in motion. Some are working, others spend their leisure time. The sound of airplanes and subways reminds us of the city behind the piece of created nature.
A short documentary by Vanja Sandell Billström & Lucia Pagano.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS: Nominated to the 1KM Film Award, at Stockholm International Film Festival 2020. Nominated in the category Best Swedish Short competition, at 43rd Göteborg Film Festival, 2020. Nominated in the category, Best Swedish Short, 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival 2020. Winner of Tempo Sound Award, 21 Tempo Documentary Festival, 2020. Nominated to Tempo Short Award, 21 Tempo Documentary Festival, 2020. Shortlisted on Rencontres Internationales 2021.
SCREENINGS: 31:st Stockholm International Film Festival 2020. 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival 2020. 33rd Helsinki International Film Festival 2020. 43:rd Göteborg Film Festival, 2020. 21:st Tempo Documentary Festival, 2020. Film evening at Filmbasen, Alby 2020. Screening at the Short Film Day 8/1 - 2021 at cinema Elektra in Västerås, Folkets Bio supported by the Swedish Film Institute.
CREDITS: DIRECTORS: Lucia Pagano, Vanja Sandell Billström EDITORS: Vanja Sandell Billström & Lucia Pagano DOP: Lucia Pagano, Vanja Sandell Billström PRODUCERS: Vanja Sandell Billström & Lucia Pagano SOUND DESIGN: Claes Lundberg PRODUCED BY: TANGRAM FILM with support from SVENSKA FILMINSTITUTET filmkonsulent Juan Pablo Libossart, FILMBASEN & FILM STOCKHOLM
15 minutes, documentary, 2020.
After finally getting out of a youth detention center, 17 years old Nadine, gets invited to visit Tove, a sociologist she’s become attached to at the center. Nadine takes this opportunity to play with Tove and her daughter Elsa’s ordered lifestyle.
AWARDS: Best Student Female Director & Best Supporting Actress, (to Ofelia Jernelius), Prague International Indie Film Festival, Honorable Mention 2020, Deep Focus Film Festival 2021
SCREENINGS: Prague International Indie Film Festival 2020, Orlando Film Festival 2020
STARRING: Åsa Karlin, Elin Övergaard, Ofelia Jernelius, DIRECTOR: Lucia Pagano DOP: Zuzanna Pyda Kernbach, WRITERS: Lucia Pagano, Kasia Cyran, Igor Pisuk, HEAD of PRODUCTION: Honorata Hałatek, EDITING: Mariann Sonyi, Lucia Pagano, SOUND DESIGN: Anja Tietze Lharmann
Fiction, 28 min, 2020
Codified Environments: Renderings of Public Space presents works by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lucia Pagano in a three-day exhibition at Färgfabriken.
Codified Environments takes the public spaces of Stockholm as its departure point, reflecting on the overlapping categories of public and private in society’s common spaces. The exhibition explores points of connection between the practices of Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lucia Pagano, investigating their artistic strategies and how their working processes intersect with broader discourse on the public sphere(s) and democratic spaces.
Codified Environments presents a spatial negotiation between two artworks. The exhibition centres around Pagano’s experimental documentary short film Röda Linjen (The Red Line), filmed along the metro line from Ropsten to Norsborg. Gustafsson Fürst has created a new work for Codified Environments. The Eyes is a site- specific installation which operates as a gesture, responding to The Red Line, intervening spatially and visually with the audience’s experience.
The exhibition investigates the codified nature of space – exploring the importance of unprogrammed public spaces, examining everyday moments which hint at the codified languages of social interaction and the relation between individual and the communal. Through setting up a constellation between artworks, space and audience, Codified Environments questions what happens when behaviour – or the encounter with an artwork - shifts context.
Text: Jasmine Hinks
Exhibition with works by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lucia Pagano, curated by Jasmine Hinks at Färgfabriken 14-16 November 2016
graphic design and layout by Freddie Egan.
This short documentary shows the struggle to give birth, and the time up till the first picture of the newly born.
DIRECTOR: Lucia Pagano, DOP: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt, Filip Drożdż, PRODUCTION MANAGER: Victoria Ognewa EDITING: Ania Adamowicz, SOUND DESIGN: Marek Knaga, ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Maciej Drygas, Mirosław Dembinski
Documentary, 11 min, 2009.
During the preparations for her mother’s wedding, Kasia sets off to search for her father. He is not at home, but she gets to know his new family.
Honorary Mention: New Nordic Voices Award, Nordisk Panorama 2011
Selected to competition at the 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Won the Certificate of the Ecumenical Jury for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition, 2012
STARRING: Agnieszka Grabosz, Monika Badowska, Zuzanna Rabiega…. DIRECTOR: Lucia v. H Pagano DOP: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt SCREENPLAY: Lucia v. H Pagano, Łukasz Ludkowski EDITING: Ania Adamowicz SOUND DESIGN: Konrad Błaszczyk HEAD of PRODUCTION: Ewelina Jackowska ART DIRECTOR: Maria Skrzypińska, Paulina Korwin-Kochanowska ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Łukasz Barczyk
Fiction, 11 min, 2011.
The Red Line is a cinematic meditation on the journey between the two final destinations Ropsten and Norsborg. The subway is Stockholm's bloodstream and connects widely different neighborhoods. It is the most fundamental in many Stockholmers' everyday lives with the journeys between work and school, etc. What happens when we take a closer look at something we experience on a daily basis? A journey that unites the city in a way, and at the same time makes the segregation visible.
DIRECTOR: Lucia Pagano DOP: Lucia Pagano, Gergely Palos EDITING: Lucia Pagano
Documentary, 16 min, 2016.
Many clients pass by, at the hairdresser's in the Zielona street in the polish city Lodz. Seen through the mirror short fragments of smalltalk is captured for us to eavesdrop on.
WITH: Jarosław Kołacha, Paweł Zacharzewski and many more DIRECTOR: Lucia v. H Pagano DOP: Zuzanna Pyda Kernbach, Lou Gutmann, Lucia v. H Pagano, Kamil Gubala EDITING: Cecylia Pacura ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Kazimierz Karabasz SOUND DESIGN: Lucyna Wielopolska PRODUCTION MANAGER: Natalia Kwiatkowska, Magdalena Bryk PRODUCED BY: PWSFTVIT, THANKS TO: Lidia Zonn & many others
Documentary, 12 min, 2013.
Close provides a tender and cheerful snapshot of friendship and first love among a closely knit group of teenage girls in Poland.
AWARDS: Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary Short Film at OUTFEST Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2010, Winner Best Cinematography & 2nd Best Documentary at VII Student Film festival Lodzia po Wiśle , Warsaw, 2009
SELECTED SCREENINGS: 28th São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Curta Kinoforum 2009. Frameline 34: Thirty-fourth San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, 2010. 39th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2010. Shown in the category ”World’s Best Docs” at 21st Inside Out Annual Toronto LGBT Film and Video, Festival. KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, India. 9th edition of Pink Screens Film Festival, Belgium. Zürich & Frauenfeld 2011, Switzerland. Skeive Filmer 20th Oslo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2010, Norway. Dwa Brzegi Film Festival 2009. Screened at the Antiracist Filmdays 2010 in Malmö, and at Kortfilmsdagen, 2014 Lund, Sweden. Göteborg Filmfestival 2009. OFF Cinema Poznan 2008.
DISTRIBUTION: Folkets Bio, “Kort och gratis” 2010 & published on dvd “Svensk kortfilm” Vol. 3 2010 c/o Folkets bio. Tv screening at Canal+planete.pl.
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Lucia von Horn Pagano DOP: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt, ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, PRODUCTION MANAGERS: Mateusz Kalinowski, Alicja Kurzęmpa, MUSIC: Bogdan Klat, Jakup Eichelberger-Dybowski, SOUND DESIGN: Wojtek Emm SHOT IN: 35mm PRODUCER: PWSFT i T CO FINANCED by: The Polish Film Institute
Documentary, 9 min, 2008
The topics of coffee, fatigue and Midsummer are debated, alongside flirting, admonitions and steadily more coffee. In short, tableau-style sequences, we are treated to humorous comments and situations from a place most of us can relate to.
Honorary Mention, at Stockmotion Film Festival 2015
Screened at Göteborg Filmfestival, 2015
WITH: Alan Adler, Sofia Bellucci Feijen, Lisa Bearpark, Peter Edling, Peter Eichardt, Kerstin Gandler, Dietrich Groundstream, Elsa Kvensler, Annika Melin, Anja Rajic, Namo Safidéen, Lina Sundén, Peter Sundström, Alexandra Wall, Letitia Ward. DIRECTOR/DOP/EDITOR: Lucia Pagano SOUND: Igor Pisuk SOUND DESIGN: Thomas Jansson
Fiction, 12 min, 2015.
Intermediate Host, is an artistic research project aiming to explore alternative narrative strategies, while writing a script for an art film. The first part consisted of gathering a research archive of news articles, interviews and pictures on the theme of deception, based on a case in Poland. The research took place travelling in the footsteps of the deceptor. The collected material has been used in an exploratory writing process where the result is a script, and an artfilm inspired by the themes explored during the research.
A teenage mom, has difficulty getting along with the nuns running the home for lonely mothers, where she is living.
STARRING: Dorota Kiełkowicz-Suszka, Agnieszka Grabosz, Dorian Grochal DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Lucia von Horn Pagano DOP: Bartek Nalazek, Mateusz Wajda, Ita Zbroniec-Zajt PRODUCTION MANAGER: Alicja Kurzępa EDITING: Filip Kasperaszek ART DIRECTOR: Norbert Trzeciak ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Andrzej Mellin, Ryszard Brylski, Leszek Dawid. CO FUNDED by: The Polish Film Institute
Fiction, 8 min, 2008.
Music video to "Porcelain" a single from the EP “Dear Layla” by Stockholm based musician Halina Larsson, released in February 2019.
STARRING: Omid Hazara DIRECTED, SHOT and EDITED by Lucia Pagano
Music video, 4 min, 2019.
Fragments of non important moments in different people's life in an anonymous polish city.
Documentary/Exeperimental, original title: Fragment. 15 min, 2011.
Six-year-old Sara believes she can fly. By the age of sixteen she once again gives it a try.
SELECTED SCREENINGS: SVT 2
STARRING: Julia Nordén and Hanna Prelogg as SAGA, 16 and 6 years old GUY: Emil Pålsson TEACHER: Patrik Karlsson GIRL BY SWINGS: Emmy Nguyen KINDERGARDEN STAFF: Karsten Karlsson, Elin Kamlert DIRECTOR/WRITER/EDITOR: Lucia von Horn Pagano DOP: Sonja Perander COMPOSER: Per-Gunnar Juliusson CAST: FOCUS PULLER: Hugo Lilja, Lotten Wester SOUND: Tobias Rönnertz, Marco Padoan CONTINUITY: Sebastian Pommer, Bosse Hedström, Malin Roosvall STUNT RESPONSIBLE: Bengt Andersson CASTING: Jennifer Oldby PRODUCED BY: Fridhems Folkkhögskola AFTER EFFECTS: Finn Deivert THANKS TO: Bengt Andersson SHOT IN: 16mm
6 minutes, fiction, 2007
