David Harald Vilgot Sjöman was a Swedish writer and film director. His films deal with controversial issues of social class, morality, and sexual taboos, combining the emotionally-tortured characters of Ingmar Bergman with the avant garde style of the French New Wave. He is best known as the director of the films 491 (1964), I Am Curious (Yellow) (in Swedish, "Jag är nyfiken - gul") (1967), and I Am Curious (Blue) ("Jag är nyfiken - blå") (1968), which stretched the boundaries of acceptability of what could then be shown on film, deliberately treating their subjects in a provocative and explicit manner.

Filmography

• 2001Filmstaden
• 2000Lars Forssell x 2
• 1995Alfred — Director
• 1992Inför Markisinnan de Sade
• 1992Self Portrait '92 — Self, Director, Writer
• 1989Fallgropen — Director
• 1987Malacca — Writer, Director
• Hur ska det gå för Pettersson? — Director, Writer, Creator
• 1982Pelikanen — Director
• 1981I am Blushing — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1979Kristoffers hus — Writer
• 1979Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet — Director, Writer
• 1977Tabu — Director, Writer
• 1975The Garage — Director
• 1974A Handful of Love — Writer, Director
• 1971Till Sex Do Us Part — Man, Director
• 1970Blushing Charlie — Director, Writer
• 1969Traveling with Father — Director, Writer
• 1969You're Lying! — Director, Writer
• 1968I Am Curious (Blue) — Vilgot Sjöman, Writer, Director
• 1968Shame — TV Interviewer
• 1967I Am Curious (Yellow) — Vilgot Sjöman, Director, Writer
• 1967Stimulantia — Director, Writer
• 1966My Sister My Love — Director, Writer
• 1964491 — Screenplay, Director
• 1964The Dress — Director
• 1963A Testimony About Her — the reporter
• 1963Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie — Self, Director
• Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie — Self, Creator
• 1962Siska — Writer
• 1962The Mistress — Screenplay, Director
• 1958Playing on the Rainbow — Writer
• 1952Defiance — Writer, Novel

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2021Lena — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Feature 136 — Himself (archival footage)
• 2014Året var 1964 — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Palme — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Filmmakers vs. Tycoons — Self
• 1964Dance Around the Guldbaggen — Self