Vilgot Sjöman · Film

I Am Curious (Blue)

Vilgot Sjöman · 1968

I Am Curious (Blue) is Vilgot Sjöman’s 1968 companion to Yellow, recutting and retoning the same material into a colder, more fragmented inquiry. Starring Lena Nyman as a version of herself, it follows her sexual and political reckoning across Stockholm and rural Sweden, using documentary interludes, staged debates and bodily realism — notably a scabies outbreak — to test the limits of nonviolence, meritocracy and personal authenticity. Peter Wester’s underlit cinematography and Bengt Ernryd’s sparse score reinforce its sombre, unsentimental tone.

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I Am Curious (Yellow)

Vilgot Sjöman · 1967

I Am Curious (Yellow) is Vilgot Sjöman’s 1967 Swedish art film starring Lena Nyman as a politically engaged theatre student conducting street interviews while navigating a fraught relationship and family history. Shot in naturalistic style by Peter Wester and edited with deliberate fragmentation by Wic’ Kjellin, it blends documentary impulse with autobiographical exposure. Notorious for its nudity and legal battles over obscenity, its real subject is the entanglement of ideology and intimacy — how class, race and war live in the body and the bedroom. Though uneven and dated in places, it remains a singular document of 1960s political cinema’s ambition to make thought visible, tactile and unresolved.