Thursday doesn't only mean pea soup these days - it also means Ikon. The show presenting documentaries is on every Thursday throughout the autumn on Swedish Television's Channel One, at 10.30 pm. According to the project leaders Göran Olsson and Patrick Bratt, Ikon is made by and for a generation who grew up with television. 40 short documentaries will be shown in the autumn, three to six in each show. No film is like the next, and it's plain to see that the traditional "documentary" in black & white, shot with a shaky hand camera, is a thing of the past. Ikon follows no rules for how a documentary "should" be. Quality is what matters. The films, ranging from 1 to 12 minutes in length, present anything, from real-life stories to situations and experiences - always with the image as the chief expression. What these films, differences aside, have in common, is a certified, undiluted piece of reality: mine, yours, or somebody else's.

Annika Hansson

Listen to and read about the making of the film Sista Måltiden [The Last Supper]/The Big Feed by Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström - and see a couple of minutes from it.

Listen to and read about the making of 466 Ly To Thai Street by Erik Pauser - and see a couple of minutes from it.

See an excerpt from Jean-Louis Huhta's and Ninni Hasselbergs film Hells Elvis.

Link to IKON at the Swedish National Television:
http://www.svt.se/dokumentarfilm/ikon/index.html

Translation by Johan Gille