Jag tycker om (English: "I like") is a poetic art film. In the film I walk through my every day environments for eight minutes, holding my camera, while I (in my mother tongue, Swedish) list the things I like. 

I started making the film in the year 2019 during a time of grieving. A few months earlier I had come out as queer, to myself and to my closest. As for many others, my process was painful. It was painful for many reasons, not least because of the patriarchal structures that I had been surrounded by my whole life, and because I was being exposed in an unsafe environment, with my own internalized queerphobia, which sometimes felt like my only real company. 

For a long time I never thought that the film would be shown publicly. I thought to myself that it simply had been a therapeutic way to cope with my own being, rather than something to put an art label on. Despite this, the film has been shown a few times, including the Finnish Swedish queer organization Regnbågsallians events, and got a heart warming reception.

To me the film is about reclaiming the power to define oneself and ones being. It is about noticing the beauty within oneself and around oneself. It is about discovering the complexity of being a human. To you, it might be about something else. That is okay too. 

Stills from the film - click on the icons to reach the gallery view. 

The whole film (in 480p SD quality) can be viewed through this link