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Roy Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor Ursula Lindqvist

Roy Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor By Ursula Lindqvist

Roy Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor by Ursula Lindqvist


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Roy Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor: Contemplating the Art of Existence by Ursula Lindqvist

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.

Roy Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor Reviews

[O]ne of the greatest strengths of this book is how Lindqvist maintains a lively conversational style that engages the reader. Further, that so much of her book is based on personal interviews and archival material is both a testament to the depth of the background research and perhaps the book's most impressive quality.

* Scandinavian Studies *

About Ursula Lindqvist

Ursula Lindqvist is assistant professor of Scandinavian studies and film and media studies at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction | A Troublesome Avant-Gardist Stages a Comeback

1. Aesthetics: Film as Art
2. Production: Film as Industry
3. Intermediality: Film, Poetry, Painting, Music
4. Humanism: Film as Philosophy and Social Critique

Epilogue | Songs Carried On

Appendix | Roy Andersson's Eclectic Oeuvre
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

NGR9780295998251
9780295998251
0295998253
Roy Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor: Contemplating the Art of Existence by Ursula Lindqvist
New
Paperback
University of Washington Press
2016-06-01
216
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