169 Seconds: Lust for Life
169 SECONDS. Thomas Vinterberg’s latest work, Another Round (2020), deals with the Danish drinking culture. Mads Mikkelsen plays a high school teacher who has lost his lust for life. The question is whether he is flying or falling in the last shot of the film? In this third edition of the 169 Seconds audiovisual format, Jan Oxholm analyzes the final scene and the dramatic use of the freeze frame technique.
Indledningens kunst: Den moderne titelsekvens
VIDEO-ESSAY. Som paratekst til diverse film og tv-serier har titelsekvensen forandret sig, og den regnes efterhånden som en selvstændig kunstform. I dette videoessay tegner Andreas Halskov en kort historie over titelsekvensens udvikling i en tv-mæssig kontekst: fra konkret-rammesættende montager, der primært etablerer seriens miljø, karakterer og cast til moderne, mere abstrakte og æstetiske titelsekvenser, skabt af selvstændige produktionsselskaber som A52, Digital Kitchen, Imaginary Forces og Elastic.
Telescopic Intimacy
VIDEO-ESSAY. Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin explore the works of avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin, focusing on the enigmatic close-ups and the “telescopic intimacy” of his films.
The Origins of Ruben Östlund’s Long-Take Style
VIDEO-ESSAY. Having won the Palme d’Or in 2017, it is no surprise that Ruben Östlund draws from other prizewinning directors like Michael Haneke and Roy Andersson. But you wouldn’t expect a Palme d’Or-winning director to find stylistic inspiration in skiing films and on YouTube. Mathias Bonde Korsgaard traces the unlikely origins of Östlund’s long-take style.
Arkiv 2003-2013
Der findes mange flere features, anmeldelser, anatomier og In English-tekster i vores omfattende arkiv fra perioden 2003-2013.
Hitler-legene: OL i Berlin 1936 som mediebegivenhed
VIDEO-ESSAY. I dette video-essay kaster Palle Schantz Lauridsen et tilbageskuende blik på Nazi-legene i 1936, som blev den første store mediebegivenhed i Danmark.
169 Seconds: Improbable Dialogism or the Art of Flying
169 SECONDS. This installment of 169 Seconds by Barbara Zecchi deconstructs the controversial ending of Scott and Khouri’s Thelma and Louise by putting it into an improbable intertextual dialogue with two other unrelated films—namely Vittorio De Sica’s Miracolo a Milano (1951) and Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982).
Bag sorte gardiner: Det fængslende og fascinerende format 1:1
VIDEO-ESSAY. Jan Oxholm kaster et blik på det usædvanlige format 1:1 i det psykologiske drama, Mommy (2014). Brugen af klaustrofobiske kvadrater er et genialt greb af den unge instruktør, Xavier Dolan, som burer sine karakterer inde bag billedformatets sorte gardiner.
Road to Nowhere: Stuck on the Freeway in Los Angeles
VIDEO-ESSAY. The freeway is the icon by which Los Angeles is described. But it is also associated with identity crisis and lonely souls in an endless traffic jam. In this audiovisual essay, Jan Oxholm explores the dramatic use of the Los Angeles freeway in Hollywood cinema and arthouse films dealing with urban alienation.
Camera Movement in Narrative Cinema
VIDEO-ESSAY. In this visual essay Jakob Isak Nielsen takes a closer look at the contribution of camera movement to “the language of cinema”. He suggests that any camera movement will serve one or more of six proposed functions.
