Name: Roy Andersson's "Songs From the Second Floor": Contemplating the art of Existence (Nordic Film Classics) (en Inglés)
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Author: Ursula Lindqvist
ISBN: 9780295998244

portada Roy Andersson's "Songs From the Second Floor": Contemplating the art of Existence (Nordic Film Classics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Washington Press

Autor

Ursula Lindqvist

Año

2016

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

216

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780295998244

Categorías

Europa del norte, escandinavia
Historia de europa

Roy Andersson's "Songs From the Second Floor": Contemplating the art of Existence (Nordic Film Classics) (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Roy Andersson's "Songs From the Second Floor": Contemplating the art of Existence (Nordic Film Classics) (en Inglés)"

Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson's celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The "songs" of the film's title refer to Andersson's artistic ruminations on the state of mankind from his office on the second floor of Studio 24 in Stockholm. The film presents a series of forty-six tableaux―long, deep-focus shots with a still camera, mostly in studio settings, using older visual tricks such as trompe l'oeil. The tableaux showcase seemingly trivial tragicomic situations designed to provoke thoughts about existential guilt, broken relationships, and the failure of social institutions to treat people as human beings. Lindqvist draws from interviews with Andersson and his team that provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the film was made and investigates its philosophical and artistic influences, providing a nuanced reading of a film that has both befuddled and entranced its viewers. This first book-length study in English of Andersson's work considers his aesthetic agenda and the unique methods that have become hallmarks of his filmmaking, as well as his firm belief in film's revolutionary function as social critique.