Kosmorama english articles

The 'Skimmel' of the Film: The haptic, the lively and the discrete in the animated films of Bent Barfod

19. sep 2024. Bent Barfod (1920-2007) was a leading figure in Danish animation. His studio, Bent Barfod Film, trained at least two generations of animators and Barfod himself sustained a long career as a filmmaker…

Prevalence Rather than Popularity? A case study of wartime film programming in Southern Norway

16. may 2024. This article reflects critically on the use of film programmes as a historical source to understand local screening contexts and cinemagoers’ preferences in a medium sized city and a nearby town in…

The Portal and the Screen – Icelandic National Identity and Foreign Cinema as Contagion

16. may 2024. PEER REVIEWED. This paper explores how cinemas in Reykjavík became portals between foreign and local cultures, infusing Icelandic society with exotic influences in the first half of the 20th century…

Kashiko Kawakita and the 1932 Towa Shoji Film Diary

15. dec 2023. PEER REVIEWED. What follows is the first English-language examination of a crucial 90-year-old text that remarkably details the unique historical narrative concerning the Kawakita “film couple” as…

Men Who Hate Women – Sex, Evil, and European fin-de-siècle Culture in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

26. oct 2022. LONG READ. This article analyses how Lars von Trier’s film uses the theme of sexuality and connects to European fin-de-siècle misogyny and dominating culture icons such as Nietzsche, Ibsen,…

Maren’s smile: Miracles of the everyday in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet

07. jun 2022. The most miraculous moment in Danish film history, the resurrection scene in Carl Th. Dreyer’s 'Ordet', invites us to reconsider the sense of wonder which animates the director’s film making.