Sunday, October 12, 2025

Event - Visionärernas Dag – Säsong 2 (2025)

 A Night of micro Chaos, Cinema and Community

 

After months of planning and anticipation, I hosted this local event again in Tidaholm, Sweden. Visionärernas Dag - Säsong 2 (Day of the Visionaries - Season 2) returned with bigger ambition, digital guest messages and a deeper love for independent cinema. Last year’s event focused heavily on my own short films. This year I wanted to expand, bring in outside creators, exclusive content and a wider audience. It happened.

 

Around 25 people attended, a lively mix of age and film lovers. Curious locals including a spontaneous group of kids who brought unpredictable energy throughout the night. Day of the Visionaries isn’t a red-carpet festival. It’s raw, personal and driven entirely by passion.

🎥 Film #1 – Fungi (2023) – Swedish Thriller


Directed by: Sofia Brattwall, Björn Engström, Lottie Johansson & Ove Valeskog

The evening began with Fungi, a Swedish thriller set in a world struck by a mysterious fungal pandemic. Humanity is split between isolated survivors searching for a cure and another group lurking outside with some more evil planes. I’ll admit my focus drifted, hosting nerves are real, but one performance stood out to me: Estrid Gustafsson-Fjellheim, who controls drones with only her hands. Her scenes, especially during a special drone attack (you know when you see it), was really chill. Kinda funny she had theater study at the same school I have also attended, though I read photography, some years before at Fridhems folkhögskola (School of Adult Education).





 
Rating: 6/10
More info:
Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/dXVdSmbn
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15828200
https://www.njutafilms.com/film/fungi-bio/

🥤 The Cola Incident

Midway through the film, a group of kids showed up. All was peaceful until an entire 2-liter cola vanished for our place. Kids goon....Minutes later, a couple of them returned and said:
“They ran off with it… but we’re feeling nice today, so we’ll buy a new one.”
They did. We got two new 2-liter drinks. Pure chaos, with honor. The kids calmly stayed the evening. 

🎁 Giveaways, Lynch-Style


To choose winners for our mystery film bag, we used David Lynch’s “Today’s Number Is…” as the official lottery system. It was so strange it needs to become a tradition for the event.
Play some with it here yourself:
https://shorturl.at/YY9VX only 850 lottery pulls xD

🧑‍💻 Guest Appearances & Exclusive Content

🍕 Pizza 

One giant pizza and two normal pizzas arrived from Dana Pizzeria and vanished instantly, I had a small idea to take a photo, but there was nothing left to take a photo of xD

🐇 Film #2 – Rabidts (2024)

Directed by: Jake Fertig (USA)
Rabidts was pure indie madness. It started as a fairly long road trip and mutated into a creature-feature chaos with interdimensional killer rabbits. Practical effects, stop motion and even re-edited footage from Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902), that edit explained the rabbits origin. It felt like a crowdfunded fever dream with bizarre deaths and eccentric characters. I don’t not know if it was crowdfunded, but the thanks to list in the credit was huge. Overall a funny movie. After some detective work I found it was indeed a crowdfounded project.

 
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Rating: 6/10
More info here:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21335724
https://www.facebook.com/groups/609764062978760/?locale=sv_SE
https://tinyurl.com/4t5cfa8h (indiegogo campaign, under another name)

🎬 Final Thoughts

Great films, fun guests, a bit micro chaos, but ok, it´s not everyday you see Gremlins like killer rabbits!
I give the event 10/10 and can’t wait for the next one.
I do wonder what will happen then...live guest...who knows... not me.. not yet...

Thanks to: 
Studioförbundet Vuxenskolan
Dana Pizzeria
Direkten Nöje

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