16:9 Talks: Michael Ruscio
16:9 TALKS. You can currently see his work in the thrilling TV series Your Honor, but the editor Michael Ruscio has also worked on modern cable classics like The Sopranos and Six Feet Under. In this interview conducted by Andreas Halskov, he talks about those two series, about appointment television and the art of editing.
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.
16:9 Podcast: Fjernsyn for viderekomne, the recap
PODCAST. Det er ved at være ti år siden, 16:9 udgav sin første antologi, Fjernsyn for viderekomne, der omhandlede den amerikanske tv-series såkaldt tredje guldalder. I den anledning samler vi i denne udgave af 16:9 Podcast op på bogens indhold, hvordan tager den sig ud i bagklogskabens klare lys, inden bogen i næste uge frit kan downloades fra 16:9’s hjemmeside. Fra alle os til alle jer.
169 Seconds: Previously on Perry Mason
169 SECONDS. In the second edition of our audiovisual format 169 Seconds, Henrik Højer analyzes a scene from the last episode of HBO’s Perry Mason. A scene that never takes place at the diegetic level but which nevertheless serves two important purposes in the context of the series.
16:9 Talks: Janus Metz
16:9 TALKS. 16:9 har talt med instruktøren Janus Metz om hans oeuvre og tegner i dette interview et portræt af Metz som en antropologisk filmskaber. Interviewet er lavet i samarbejde med VI ELSKER SERIER.
169 Seconds: Mastering Dialogue – American Crime
169 SECONDS. In the first example of our new audiovisual format, 169 Seconds, Andreas Halskov presents a condensed analysis of the alternative and experimental dialogues in American Crime (ABC, 2015-2017).
16:9 Podcast: Streaming for viderekomne
PODCAST. Tv-landskabet har forandret sig markant i streamingens tidsalder - det der ofte kaldes the multiplatform era. Dette fænomen behandles i antologien Streaming for viderekomne (2020), der følger op på 16:9-bogen Fjernsyn for viderekomne (2011) og samtidig udvider interessefeltet til ikke blot at dække nyere amerikanske tv-serier, men serier fra flere forskellige nationer og industrier. I denne podcast taler tre af redaktørerne bag Streaming for viderekomne, Henrik Højer, Jakob Isak Nielsen og Andreas Halskov, om bogens indhold og de fænomener, som der ikke blev plads til i bogen.
No Voiding Time: A Deformative Videoessay
VIDEO-ESSAY. Deformative criticism is a playful approach to film analysis that creates a new aesthetic object from the film being analysed. In 'No Voiding Time’, Alan O’Leary divides Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice into its individual component shots on four screens and treats the sound for musicality rather than sense. The result is an absurdist artefact that celebrates an already perplexing film.
Water Turtles / Tortugas aquáticas
VIDEO-ESSAY. Water Turtles / Tortugas Aquáticas is a video essay by Deborah Martin and Catherine Grant exploring similar scenes from two films in Lucrecia Martel's Salta trilogy: La ciénaga / The Swamp (2001) and La mujer sin cabeza / The Headless Woman (2008). The video centres on the ways in which the playful presence of child characters is key in shaping both the forms and narratives of Martel's films.
16:9 Podcast: Populærmusik på film (2:2)
PODCAST. Populærmusik er blevet et stadigt mere gennemgribende element af moderne film og tv-serier, og i dette afsnit sætter Mathias Bonde Korsgaard og Andreas Halskov fokus på nyere film og tv-serier og nogle specifikke tendenser inden for anvendelsen af populærmusik. Afsnittet behandler to centrale auteurs mélomanes, hhv. Quentin Tarantino og David Lynch, og runder den nostalgiske og smarte anvendelse af populærmusik i nyere tv-serier såsom Halt and Catch Fire, Stranger Things og Rick and Morty.
