A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Roy Andersson was born in 1943 in Göteborg, Sweden. His debut feature, A Swedish Love Story (1970), won four awards at Berlin and was screened in Scanorama. He went on a twenty-five-year hiatus from feature filmmaking after the release of his second film, Giliap (1975), directing commercials and shorts. His recent features are Songs from the Second Floor (2000), which won the Jury Prize at Cannes, and You, the Living (2007), which was presented at Scanorama. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City presented a retrospective of Andersson’s work in September 2009. Film presented by: