Filmed in the same small town of Kvidinge, Förår delves into the psyche of one of the characters initially introduced in Sent på Jorden. The work focuses on a memory of an event that is revisited. The work is offered as a subtle journey ioffered as a subtle observation of the world around.

Förår translates loosely from Swedish as the season ‘Spring’. This time is a space that is looking back to what was and forward to something that we do not yet know will be. An old-Swedish word, not used anymore, Förår is connected to the seasons in farming. Fore-year, Harvest-year and After-year: Spring, Summer and Autumn/ Winter. The connotation of the Swedish word can be more foreboding than its anglicised counter-part. Akin to the feeling that something is to happen but one cannot yet see it.
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‘My uncle (who ‘plays’ the man on the phone in Sent på Jorden) is both schizophrenic and paranoid, so it was a little bit too much for him to have a whole crew at his house, especially when most of them were women... Or he just got a bit too high, it wasn’t to bad but just after the shoot he kept calling me about this idea that he had. He thought

I should make one film for each season (he was a farmer...), after a while I stopped trying to explain that I wasn’t
so interested in that and just said yes, yes. After a while he stopped and I forgot about it. And then when we were making this new one I realized that we almost were doing what he had proposed.’
John Skoog in conversation June, 2012

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