Kategori: Media
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The History of Music Video in 169 Seconds
169 SECONDS. Past music video scholarship has only rarely touched upon the issue of canonization and accordingly there have been almost no discussions of which music videos that could amount to canonical status. In this brief video essay and accompanying written article, Mathias Bonde Korsgaard aims to redress this lack and asks whether you can recount the entire history of music video in a mere 169 seconds.
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Classif. & Me (Laird’s Constraint)
VIDEO-ESSAY. ‘Classif. & Me’ analyses the opening montage from The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015) and is modelled on the analysis performed by Colleen Laird of Helter Skelter (Ninagawa Mika, 2012) in her virtuoso 2023 video essay ‘Eye-Camera-Ninagawa’. Riffing on Laird’s work allows Alan O’Leary to protest and playfully satirize certain scientific aspirations in videographic criticism.
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16:9 Podcast: Bong Joon-ho
PODCAST. I 2020 blev Bong Joon-hos Parasite den første ikke-engelsksprogede film til at vinde en Oscar i kategorien “Best Picture”. Nu omtrent fem år senere er Bong Joon-ho langt om længe klar med en opfølger, nemlig den engelsksprogede sci-fi-film Mickey 17. I den anledning kigger Jakob Langkjær og Mathias Bonde Korsgaard i denne podcast tilbage i den sydkoreanske instruktørs filmografi og giver gennem udvalgte nedslag et portræt af Bong Joon-ho som filmskaber.
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169 Seconds: “Mr. Woodcock detests too much butter”
169 SECONDS. In what was to be the last film in Daniel Day-Lewis’ highly acclaimed career we follow fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock and his muse Alma. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is a film where food becomes emblematic of the drama and the differences between the two main characters. In this 169 Seconds, Jesper Mejling Clausen zooms in on some of the meals in the film.
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16:9 Podcast: Blockbusteren som filmfænomen
PODCAST. Hvor er blockbusteren på vej hen som filmfænomen? I denne 16:9-podcast sætter Jakob Langkjær sammen med Andreas Halskov, Jakob Isak Nielsen og Alexander Kjems Christensen blockbuster-formatet under lup og kommer undervejs bl.a. ind på blockbusterens særlige kendtegn og historie, Marvel-franchisens dominans, Greta Gerwigs kønspolitiske kæmpesucces Barbie, Top Gun Maverick som non-CGI-film og Tom Cruise som forkæmper for biografoplevelsen, samt ikke mindst, hvad blockbusteren egentlig betyder for vores fælles filmkultur.
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The Present Is the Past Is the Present: Sonic Repetition and Temporal Distortion in Enys Men
VIDEO ESSAY. Steven Sehman, in his video essay on Enys Men (2022), examines the effect of filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s highly repetitive soundtrack on the film’s sense of time. Linear temporality relies on a cause-and-effect syntax: this will lead to that. But what happens when extreme repetition subverts such causality? Does time continue to move forward? Does it stand still? Or does it move into the past?
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Deep cuts: Cross-time editing in The Idol, Fresh and X
VIDEO-ESSAY. Film editing can usually be divided into two different approaches: Continuity and discontinuity editing. But what aesthetic possibilities exist between these very different principles, and how can an audiovisual work of art challenge this stark contrast? Alexander Kjems Christensen explores these questions in this video essay, where excerpts from Ti West’s X, Sam Levinson’s The Idol and Mimi Cave’s Fresh serve as the primary examples.
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En eksplosion af farver! Animeformatets mange ansigter
VIDEO-ESSAY. Hvad er japansk anime egentlig for en størrelse? Denne artikel, og medfølgende videoessay, fremhæver tre værker, der viser, hvor mangfoldigt anime-formatet er; hvor mange genrer anime kan optræde inden for og ikke mindst, hvor forskelligt anime kan komme til udtryk både i form af stil, målgruppe og stemning.
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Fabricating Almodóvar: Pain & Glory
169 SECONDS. This audiovisual essay approaches the intimate link between artistic invention and queer emotion in Pedro Almodóvar’s films Law of Desire (1987), Bad Education (2004) and Pain & Glory (2019). It combines visual and music excerpts from these three films to illustrate the dual role of memory as a creative tool and emotional support in navigating the undesirable present.
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169 Seconds: 2008 – A Crisis Glossary
169 SECONDS. Alan O’Leary’s 169 Seconds: 2008 – A Crisis Glossary deals with two films on the 2008 financial crash, Too Big To Fail (2011) and The Big Short (2015). The video essay ambivalently foregrounds the pleasure that the films provide by granting access to a masculine world of jargon and capital. Financial terms are combined alphabetically for an absurd experience that perhaps makes a nonsense of its subject.
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169 Seconds: In Bruges and What It Means to Be Human
169 SECONDS. What does it mean to human? Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges about two out-of-luck hitmen is a bleak and humorous genre film that seeks to answer that question. The film is essentially a tale of compassion and love in the face of absurdity and frailty. In this jubilee instalment of 169 Seconds Jesper Haarup Borchmann highlights the humanism of In Bruges.
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169 Seconds: Causality in The Square
169 SECONDS. Film narratives often follow a logic of causality, with one incident naturally leading to another. In Ruben Östlund’s The Square (2017) we seem to witness such typical relations of cause and effect, yet the narrative gradually spirals out of control: actions do have consequences, but in the truly plural sense of one action leading to more than one outcome. In this jubilee installment of 169 Seconds, Mathias Bonde Korsgaard explores the film’s narrative mechanisms.