"The hypnotic cinema", where a hypnotist for about a quarter of an hour will put the cinema audience in a hypnotized state is part of the film festival's theme Disorder.
The idea is also to be able to go into the film with the greatest possible concentration on the film experience.
- It's very much about focus.
In this time we live in when we watch movies on different screens and TV and telephone, it is, I experience myself, to keep the focus for the movie experience to be hypnotic.
With the help of a hypnotist, you can really get sick into this even deeper.
The sound I experienced also changed a lot, says Jonas Holmberg, artistic director of the Gothenburg Film Festival.
See more in the clip.