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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.

Kosmorama #270: Palladium, portrait docs and digitalization

In late summer 2017, one of Denmark’s oldest film companies, Palladium, closed and the backlist was acquired by the Danish Film Institute – both the rights and the actual film collection. This…

Psilander, Dreyer, and Lydia

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. Of all the many films that Valdemar Psilander made, Carl Th. Dreyer made a credited contribution only to one: Lydia, a film directed by Holger-Madsen and released in 1918, for which he…

The Dreyer Paratext

13. dec 2024. The filmmaker Carl Th. Dreyer believed that it was best for films to have no credit titles at all: they got in the way of the audience’s immersion in the story. This article discusses Dreyer’s claim…

#288: Dreyer’s unwanted credits

13.12.2024 | Casper Tybjerg discusses Dreyer’s opposition to film credits and some of the theoretical issues raised by the use of paratexts.

Kosmorama #267: Valdemar Psilander

This issue of Kosmorama marks the centenary of the untimely death of the brightest international star of Danish silent cinema. If you are thinking: ’Ah, Asta Nielsen!’, think again. In the early…

Carl Dreyer's "Michael" - Digitalization and the Rediscovery of a classic Kammerspiel-film

06. dec 2017. This brief article traces the popular and critical reception of Dreyer’s Michael (1924) from its theatrical release to its DVD editions. Michael was largely considered a lost and forgotten…

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…

A Common Film Culture? - Theme issue on Danish-German film relations during the silent era

15. jan 2020. The authors behind this issue of Kosmorama are all part of the three-year Danish-German research project: 'A Common Film Culture? Denmark and Germany in the Silent Movie Era, 1910-1930'. In this…

The Woman's Point of View: "Thora van Deken" (1920)

29. sep 2017. PEER REVIEWED. The Swedish film Thora van Deken from 1920, though little-known and rarely seen, is a strikingly well-made and well-acted psychological drama. Based on a short novel by Henrik…

Screenwriting for a Star: The Scripts for Valdemar Psilander's Films

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. A star surely needs suitable scripts, but the question of how scripts contributed to creating a star and a star image is seldom raised. This article examines Psilander’s screenwriters…

Following the Swedish Model: The Transnational Nature of Finnish National Cinema in the early 1920s

29. sep 2017. PEER REVIEWED. This article demonstrates why Swedish cinema of the golden age (1916–1924) became an important model for Finnish filmmakers in the early 1920s. In relation to this, the article…