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Benjamin Christensen’s Wonderful Adventure: Film History and Practitioner’s Agency

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. In 1923, Danish director Benjamin Christensen made a film in Germany, 'Seine Frau, die Unbekannte', a comedy about a blinded war veteran who regains his sight, but fails to recognize…

World Agents and Mighty Filmmakers – The Transnational Business Relations of Palladium

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. The film company Palladium was highly successful throughout the 1920s, an exception in an otherwise troubled period for the Danish film industry. Films featuring Fyrtårnet and Bivognen…

The Not-So-Golden Age of Swedish Silent Cinema? Historiographies of Isepa (1926–1928)

21. oct 2020. PEER REVIEWED. Isepa AB was a short-lived subsidiary to Svensk Filmindustri set up in 1926 to produce a series of internationally co-produced films with a cosmopolitan appeal, all for the purpose of…

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…

#287: Bent Barfod – the master of Danish animation

19.09.2024 | Kosmorama takes a closer look at the master of Danish animation Bent Barfod.

Kosmorama #268: Production design and the creation of story worlds

This issue of Kosmorama focuses on production design. A film without design would be a film with no images. Every work of visual fiction relies on the representation of design artifacts; costumes,…

Strategies in Danish Film Culture – and the Case of Susanne Bier

11. mar 2015. PEER REVIEWED. Dialogues between national and transnational film cultures take place incessantly. The question is: which kinds of dialogue? The principal lines in the history of encounters and…

The Moving Image: Body Language and Media Context

02. dec 2014. Every day we are presented with bodily expressions in audiovisual media – by anchors, journalists and characters in films for instance. This article explores how body language in the moving image has…

Movie Stars in the Flesh: The Live Red Carpet Oscars Event

02. dec 2014. PEER REVIEWED. In this article the live red carpet event at the Academy Awards is regarded as a specific media genre which has become a matrix of recognition and success in contemporary film and…

After the Celebration: The Effect of Dogme on Danish Cinema

13. dec 2013. PEER REVIEWED. Lars von Trier’s invention Dogme 95 has been celebrated by some as one of the most important events in European film history and dismissed by others as a publicity stunt. This article…

History unmade: Dreyer's Unrealised Mary. Queen of Scots

03. jul 2015. PEER REVIEWED. One of Dreyer’s great unrealised films was an account of the life and loves of Maria Stuart, or Mary, Queen of Scots. Dreyer’s archive contains extensive research materials and notes…