169 Seconds: Titane

169 SECONDS. Jan Oxholm analyserer det tragiske anslag i Guldpalme-vinderen, Titane (2021), som viser en far, der ikke kan nå sin datter. Eller er det i virkeligheden datteren, som ikke kan nå sin far?

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.

16:9 Podcast: Kunstfilmen i streaminglandskabet

PODCAST. Mens de store streaming-giganters indbyrdes konkurrence ofte handler om hvem der kan tilbyde de største og mest populære film og serier, fører kunstfilmen en mere beskeden tilværelse i streaminglandskabets randområder. I denne 16:9-podcast afsøger Jakob Langkjær sammen med Henrik Højer, Jakob Isak Nielsen og Mathias Bonde Korsgaard netop dette territorium i en snak om hvordan (og hvor) kunstfilmen begår sig online - og hvor de hver giver en streaminganbefaling.

169 Seconds: Improbable Dialogisms or Dancing as an Act of Defiance

169 SECONDS. At 16:9 we are celebrating our 20th anniversary this year with a series of 169 Seconds video essays about films, series, documentaries, etc. made since the journal was launched in 2003. In this first installment, Barbara Zecchi traces unlikely intertextual connections between four notable dance scenes in Dogtooth, Raw, Titane and Ema.

169 Seconds: Una mujer reflejada / A Reflected Woman

169 SECONDS. In this installment of our jubilee series of 169 Seconds, Catherine Grant collects mirror and reflection sequences from the 2017 Chilean film Una mujer fantástica and ponders their significance in this narrative of queer melancholia and mourning. The film stars Daniela Vega, a trans actress and mezzo-soprano, who, in the closing moments of the film, sings the song that accompanies the essay: “Ombra mai fu”, the opening aria from Händel’s 1738 opera Serse.

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: Trimming Time in Breaking Bad

169 SECONDS. In the second installment of our jubilee series of 169 Seconds, Jason Mittell leans into the parametric possibilities offered by the series. Through 16 video clips from Breaking Bad, with a new one appearing every 9 seconds, the video evokes the affective experience of Walter White’s story.

16:9 Talks: Joel Fields

16:9 TALKS. Joel Fields is a writer and executive producer who worked as showrunner on the acclaimed period drama The Americans. In this interview, Fields talks about the conceptualization and development of The Americans, and he talks about authenticity, music and the so-called “antihero genre”. We have seen many tragic heroes and antiheroes in literature, theater, film and television – from Richard III to Tony Soprano and Walter White – but Elizabeth and Philip Jennings were never conceived as antiheroes. That question and ‘the question of authenticity’ are central to this interview with Joel Fields, who also talks about growing up at a time of international conflict, tension and paranoia.

169 Seconds: What tree trunks really look like

169 SECONDS. What is it that filmmaking does to our relation to time and place? In this installment of the jubilee series of 169 seconds, Steffen Moestrup embarks on a small essayistic journey along with Margaret Tait to reflect on the question of cinematic - and worldly - time and place.

Arkiv 2003-2013

Der findes mange flere features, anmeldelser, anatomier og In English-tekster i vores omfattende arkiv fra perioden 2003-2013.