Kategori: Video-essay
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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.
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It’s not tv, it’s art-tv
VIDEO-ESSAY. I 2003 brugte den amerikanske filmhistoriker Kristin Thompson begrebet art-tv om tv-serien Twin Peaks. I sit video-essay argumenterer Henrik Højer for at aktuelle serier som Mr. Robot, The Leftovers og The Knick fører arven fra David Lynch videre og udfordrer seerne gennem eksperimenterende brug af bl.a. long takes, musik og montageklipning.
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Dimittender, døgenigte og Don Juaner: Eksistentielle træk hos Mike Nichols
VIDEO-ESSAY. Mike Nichols var en af sin tids mest hæderkronede amerikanske instruktører, og på tværs af hans film afsøger han forskellige eksistentielle temaer, såsom meningsløshed og fremmedgørelse. Disse temaer og deres filmiske iscenesættelse belyses i dette videoessay. Et videoessay, som runder filmene The Graduate (1967), Catch-22 (1971), Carnal Knowledge (1971) og Closer (2004).
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Mere Coen’sk end Coen? Fargo-seriens opskrift på succes
VIDEO-ESSAY. Imitation er ofte første skridt på vejen mod originalitet. Det beviser Noah Hawley med FX-serien Fargo fra 2014/15, der stiller sig på skuldrene af Coen-brødrenes film af samme navn fra 1996 og elegant springer ud på egne ben. Problemet er blot, at Hawley imiterer et film-univers, mens Coen-brødrene imiterer virkeligheden. Og netop derfor kommer man til at savne den originale Coen’ske signatur, som Hawley ellers er så god til at efterligne.
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FEMO: Fire veje til filmiske frames
VIDEO-ESSAY. Hvordan lærer studerende at skabe bedre billeder? Det spørgsmål drøftede associate professor Irina Patkanian med en kollega fra Brooklyn College, og de kom op med en huskeregel: FEMO. Et simpelt princip, der hjælper med at skabe mere filmiske frames. Dorte Granild præsenterer princippet, der er anvendeligt i både produktion og analyse af levende billeder. FEMO er én nøgle til at forstå visuel energi, dybde og modstand. Og ét bud på, hvorfor vi husker nogle billeder, mens andre glemmes.
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Moving Pictures: Visual References and Artistry in the Works of David Lynch
VIDEO-ESSAY. The renowned film and television director David Lynch began his career as a painter, and in this video-essay Andreas Halskov explores the visual references and artistry in Lynch’s narrative films and television series.
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Audience involving strategies in Sherlock
VIDEO-ESSAY. Fans of the BBC’s Sherlock very actively have taken the show to their hearts. How does Sherlock succeed in involving its worldwide audiences in the show? In this video-essay Palle Schantz Lauridsen examines audience involving strategies within and around the show.
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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.