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Roy Andersson's "Songs from the Second Floor" - Contemplating the Art of Existence (Paperback)
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Roy Andersson's "Songs from the Second Floor" - Contemplating the Art of Existence (Paperback)
Series: Nordic Film Classics
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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.
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