Package Deals tours each program after its NYC Premiere. Currently, PD03: Daydream Nation and PD02: Cold Hearts are traveling in 2007. For booking information, please contact us.

Scroll down to read about Cold Hearts, artist films and music videos from Iceland.

Package Deals, in collaboration with The Tank, is proud to announce the launch of its latest Touring Package. PD03: Daydream Nation, a curated lineup of animated shorts, music videos, and artist films rarely seen outside of their native Nordic kingdom, showcases work from some of the best and most creative Swedish imaginations around. It will travel to cinemas, film festivals, artspaces, and galleries across the U.S. and abroad in 2007.

A far cry from the beloved Saturday cartoons of mornings past, Daydream Nation’s roster of 17 animated films and videos offers a vision of Sweden all grown-up, bringing unorthodox and often unsettling imagery to life. Couples on the brink, lonely mopers, professional disillusionment, and more than a few decapitation and dismemberment scenes find themselves juxtaposed against the nicer things in life: colorful origami, toy cars, dancing ladies with parasols, horses, and pretty blonde party girls. So is Sweden, then, a nation of dreamers? Well, this program, featuring vibrant work from the cosmopolitan streets of Stockholm, the up-and-coming communities of arty Göteborg, the maritime landscape of southernmost Malmö, and various expatriate outposts, dares to suggest so.

Daydream Nation’s diverse program includes work by festival favorites Klara Swantesson and Peter Larsson, whose films represented two-thirds of the 2006 nominations for “Best Short Film” at Sweden’s national version of the Oscars, the Guldbagge awards. Likewise, Sweden’s world-class contemporary music scene is ably represented, running the gamut from the macabre electronica of The Knife to the saccharine pop of The Concretes, the Envelopes, and El Perro Del Mar. Also on offer are films by well-known music video directors Andreas Nilsson, Andreas Korsár, Björn Renner, and Henrik Åkerberg.

Daydream Nation showcases artist films by Henrik Åkerberg, Johannes Nyholm, Peter Larsson, Klara Swantesson, Moa Lönn, and Björn Renner. Music videos by The Knife, Love Is All, The Concretes, El Perro del Mar, Envelopes, The Radio Dept, Jose Gonzalez, Erik de Vahl, and Peter, Björn, and John.

For booking inquiries, please contact us.

Daydream Nation Tour 2007

Detroit Film Center, Detroit – May 26, 2007
Croatia Film Clubs Association, Zagreb – June 5, 2007
Indie Memphis Micro Cinema, Memphis, TN – June 13 2007
Duchess Gallery at Roots & Culture, Chicago – July 21, 2007
AS220, Providence, RI – July 25, 2007
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX - August 5, 2007
Brattle Theater, Boston, MA - August 9, 2007
Sound Unseen Music + Film Fest, Minneapolis, MN - August 23, 2007
FINDS (presented by Videotage), Hong Kong - August 28, 2007
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia – September 2007
Athens, Greece – October 2007
Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC - November 8, 2007
Renew Theaters, Bryn Mawr/Doylestown/Ambler, PA - December 5 + 6, 2007

Program Details (* denotes music video)
The Knife (Dir: Motomichi Nakamura), We Share Our Mother's Health* (2006, 4:13)
Peter Larsson, The Man Who Got Nowhere (2005, 3:08)
Love Is All (Dir: Andreas Nilsson), Ageing Had Never Been His Friend* (2007, 3:04)
Johannes Nyholm, The Tale of Little Puppetboy (2005, 4:20)
Erik De Vahl (Dir: Otto Mogren), Friendly Fire* (2005, 2:59)
Björn Renner, The Horse’s Sanity (2000, 11:00)
Moa Lönn, Food (2006, 1:37)
Envelopes, Sister in Love* (2005, 2:42)
Concretes (Dir: Daniel Levi), Chosen One* (2006, 3:09)
Moa Lönn, Floor (2006, 0:40)
The Knife (Dirs: Andreas Korsár and Andreas Nilsson), N.Y Hotel* (2001, 2:50)
Klara Swantesson, Radicalized (2006, 7:42)
El Perro Del Mar (Dir: Åsa Arnehed), God Knows* (2006, 3:39)
Moa Lonn, Pink (2006, 1:41)
The Radio Dept (Dir: Henrik Åkerberg), Pulling Our Weight* (2004, 3:28)
José González, Stay in the Shade (Dir: Elias Araya) (2006, 2:22)
Peter, Björn, + John (Dir: Graham Samuels), Young Folks* (2006, 4:40)
Henrik Åkerberg, Hokus Pokus (2004, 4:00)

TRT: 65 minutes

Support for the Daydream Nation tour is provided in part by The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Special thanks to the Tank and the Consulate General of Sweden in New York.