Kategori: Video-essay
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Echoes of the Past: Popular Music and Nostalgia in Modern Television Drama
VIDEO-ESSAY. Referring to modern drama series like Stranger Things, The Americans and Show Me a Hero, Andreas Halskov explores the connections between nostalgia and period-specific popular music, arguing that nostalgic pop- and rock-scores illustrate a tendency in modern society and television. A trend that television networks and on-demand services try to monetize, more or less strategically.
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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.
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Returning, Recycling and Remixing: Cut-up and Collage in Twin Peaks: The Return
VIDEO-ESSAY. The new season of Twin Peaks is about the yearning to go back and the inevitability of transformation. It is about a nostalgic longing and a fear of letting go, but it is also about repeated patterns and remixing. Andreas Halskov explores the use of recycling and remixing in Twin Peaks: The Return.