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SUMMARY:Edvard Munch's Photography: The Experimental Self
DESCRIPTION:The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography\, an exhibition organized by American-Scandinavian Foundation with The Munch Museum in Oslo that first brought the photographic work of the master painter to NYC in 2017/18 before traveling worldwide\, returns to Scandinavia House this winter with a newly conceived design and a section including vintage camera equipment alongside the release of the 2020 illustrated book The Experimental Self: The Photography of Edvard Munch\, awarded with diploma as one of The Year’s Most Beautiful Books\, 2021 by Grafill\, Norway’s National Organization for Visual Communication. \nInternationally celebrated for his paintings\, prints\, and watercolors\, Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) also took photographs. In 2017/18\, the exhibition The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography at Scandinavia House drew widespread acclaim for introducing audiences to his photographic and film work\, emphasizing the artist’s experimentalism and examining his exploration of the camera as an expressive medium. This exhibition includes Munch’s experimental portraiture of friends and family as well as his self-portraiture\, including images from what he termed his “Fatal Destiny” portfolio\, staged between 1902 and 1908. By probing and exploiting the dynamics of “faulty” practice\, such as distortion\, blurred motion\, eccentric camera angles\, and other photographic “mistakes\,” Munch photographed himself and his immediate environment in ways that rendered them poetic. In both still images and in his few forays with a hand-held moving-picture camera\, Munch not only archived images\, but invented them. As a recent Financial Times Magazine review of the works states\, “Munch’s mercurial snapshots trace the survival of an artist obsessed with loss… his photographs remain tantalisingly opaque a century on.” \nHaving since traveled to eight venues worldwide\, including Seattle\, Oslo\, Stockholm\, Fredrikssund (Denmark)\, and Bergen\, the exhibition will be returning to Scandinavia House beginning December 10 in a new iteration\, including photographic enlargements and a display of the amateur camera models similar to those he used in his work. The exhibition will also feature a “selfie station” for visitors to interact with Edvard Munch’s experimental self-portraiture\, as well as the opportunity to browse the new publication\, which includes 120 fully illustrated pages alongside essays by curator Patricia G. Berman\, Tom Gunning and MaryClaire Pappas\, available for purchase in the Shop. On loan from the Munch Museum in Oslo\, Norway\, the approximately 50 copy prints in the exhibition and a continuous projection of Munch’s films will be accompanied by contextualizing didactic panels as well as a video presentation. It has been organized by the American-Scandinavian Foundation in partnership with The Munch Museum in Oslo\, Norway. It has been supported by the Inger and William Ginsberg Support Fund.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/edvard-munchs-photography-the-experimental-self-2/
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SUMMARY:National Danish Book Club — We\, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen
DESCRIPTION:Explore a selection of Danish literature in English translation with a new nationwide virtual book club! Organized as part of the new National Danish Book Club and Literary Event Series on January 18\, we will discuss We\, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen \nHailed in Europe as an instant classic\, We\, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal\, Denmark\, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars\, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation; there are cannibals here\, shrunken heads\, prophetic dreams\, and miraculous survivals. The result is a brilliant seafaring novel\, a gripping saga encompassing industrial growth\, the years of expansion and exploration\, the crucible of the first half of the 20th century\, and most of all\, the sea. \nThe National Danish Book Club and Literary Event Series is brought to you by American-Scandinavian Foundation\, Scan Design Foundation\, Museum of Danish America\, Northwest Danish Association\, National Foundation for Danish America\, National Nordic Museum\, University of Wisconsin – Madison\, and the University of Washington Scandinavian Studies Department. \nBook Club Discussions will be moderated by Faculty Associate Nete Schmidt from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/national-danish-book-club-we-the-drowned-by-carsten-jensen/
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SUMMARY:The Most Beautiful Boy in the World—Virtual Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Nordic & Baltic Oscar Contenders series at Scandinavia House returns this season with select in-house and virtual screenings of films chosen by the Nordic & Baltic countries to compete for the Oscar nomination for the Best International Feature Film. On Thursday\, January 20 through Sunday\, January 23\, see the Swedish documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (dir. Kristian Petri & Kristina Lindstrom\, Sweden\, 2021). \nIn 1971 at the world premiere of Death in Venice in London\, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed Björn Andrésen\, the teen star of his latest film\, “the most beautiful boy in the world.” Just 16 at the time when the film came out\, Andrésen was unprepared for instantly becoming an international celebrity. Fifty years later\, Björn looks back on his life\, in a story of a boy who was thrust to international stardom for his iconic looks and lived a life of glamour as well as heartbreak. (94 min. In Swedish\, English\, French\, Italian\, and Japanese with English subtitles) \n“Haunting… a psychologically probing portrait”—New York Times\n“One of the few documentaries to dwell so gravely and persuasively on how sudden fame can ruin a young life\, bypassing any perks of stardom”—Vogue \nTickets to this event must be purchased in advance online at the link above. \nTo download viewing instructions and an FAQ\, please click here. \n \nThis screening is supported by the Consulate General of Sweden\, New York. \nABOUT THE DIRECTORS\nKristina Lindström (director) is a filmmaker\, journalist\, and author. She has worked at SVT as a producer\, project manager\, and filmmaker. She has directed highly acclaimed documentaries about some of Sweden’s most famous names and faces\, including Astrid (2014) and Palme (with Maud Nycander\, 2012). Among others\, Lindström has been awarded The Publicists big award\, the Linné Prize\, Kristallen\, Stockholm’s Culture Prize\, and the Ikaros Award. \nKristian Petri (director) is a filmmaker\, writer\, and culture journalist with a distinctly personal voice that transcends genre and form. Petri won Best Direction at the Guldbagge Awards for his first feature film\, Between Summers (1995)\, which was selected for the prestigious Quinzaine des Realisateurs in Cannes. Many of his films\, including The Well (2005)\, Details (2003)\, and Tokyo Noise (2002) have been critically celebrated and have been nominated for and received a number of national and international awards.
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SUMMARY:Nordic & Baltic Oscar Contenders 2022
DESCRIPTION:This year\, the Nordic & Baltic Oscar Contenders series returns to Scandinavia House in a hybrid format! In coordination with Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. with BalticFilmExpo@SFFLA\, Scandinavia House is pleased to offer virtual screenings of films chosen by the Nordic & Baltic countries to compete for the Oscar nomination for the Best International Feature Film\, available to viewers across the U.S. on the weekends of January 6\, 13\, as well as 20. The virtual series will include a minimum of eight films in total\, screened over weekends in January; check back here for more details on upcoming virtual screenings. Passholders will receive priority reservation for limited screenings taking place later this month. \nDuring the weekend of January 20-23\, the program comprises screenings of the Swedish documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (dir. Kristian Petri & Kristina Lindstrom\, Sweden\, 2021); President (dir. Camilla Nielsson; Denmark/Norway/USA\, 2021)\, shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature for the 94th Academy Awards; and Compartment No. 6 (dir. Juho Kuosmanen\, Finland/Estonia/Germany/Russia\, 2021). \nFestival films will be available to ticket holders all over the U.S. Each session is limited to 300 tickets in an effort to preserve the intimate and communal experience. The sessions will take place over four days (Thursday — Sunday)\, and all films from the session will be available for viewing on a virtual cinema screening platform throughout this period. \nTo download viewing instructions and an FAQ\, please click here. \nTo see upcoming in-house screenings in the series\, please click here. \nFILMS\nThe Most Beautiful Boy in the World (dir. Kristian Petri & Kristina Lindstrom\, Sweden\, 2021) \nIn 1971 at the world premiere of Death in Venice in London\, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed Björn Andrésen\, the teen star of his latest film\, “the most beautiful boy in the world.” Just 16 at the time when the film came out\, Andrésen was unprepared for instantly becoming an international celebrity. Fifty years later\, Björn looks back on his life\, in a story of a boy who was thrust to international stardom for his iconic looks and lived a life of glamour as well as heartbreak. (94 min. In Swedish\, English\, French\, Italian\, and Japanese with English subtitles)\nWATCH TRAILER \n President (dir. Camilla Nielsson; Denmark/Norway/USA\, 2021) \nDanish director Camilla Nielsson – who previously chronicled the contentious reform of Zimbabwe’s constitution in the acclaimed Democrats – gains astonishing access to that nation’s 2018 presidential election as Obama-esque reformer Nelson Chamisa faces overwhelming odds against Emmerson Mnangagwa\, disciple of longtime dictator Robert Mugabe\, and nicknamed “the crocodile.” Disputes over voter rolls and a compromised election commission\, plus voter intimidation and outright violence mount as election day nears\, as President illustrates the global scale of these issues. (115 minutes. In English and Shona with English Subtitles)\nWATCH TRAILER \nCompartment No. 6 (dir. Juho Kuosmanen\, Finland/Estonia/Germany/Russia\, 2021) \nA Finnish student studying in Moscow\, Laura sets off alone on a train trip to the Arctic port of Murmansk\, after a trip planned with her lover falls through. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger-than-life Russian miner\, Ljoha\, she tries in vain to find distance. But as their connection grows stronger while the train nears its destination\, their unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection. Based on the novel by Rosa Liksom\, Compartment No. 6 has been hailed as “fresh\, resonant and honest” (Los Angeles Times) and “a trip well worth taking”—Globe and Mail. (107 min. In Finnish and Russian with English subtitles)\nWATCH TRAILER
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/nordic-baltic-oscar-contenders-2022-3/
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SUMMARY:The Familiar & The Absurd — Literature from Copenhagen
DESCRIPTION:Join us on January 22 at 2 PM ET for a Virtual Danish Literary Panel with Copenhagen-based authors Ida Marie Hede\, Ursula Scavenius\, & Steven Zultanski moderated by editor and writer Tom Conaghan! The authors will discuss their newly translated books each exploring themes of the body and intimacy from unique sci-fi perspectives. \nAdorable by Ida Marie Hede (translated from Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg)  is shimmering journey into the absurd phenomenality of family life – and the human microbiome — told in four parts\, in Copenhagen and London. The love between B and Q is tender but worn; when their daughter Æ is born\, the everyday lights up in a new way. In its second part\, the dead are animated in B’s brain. When B’s father dies\, the news is delivered to her by phone and an essayistic\, collagist meditation on death and transmission ensues. And then\, it’s finally Friday. B and Q descend below the living room floor and wander through a cracked and skittish underworld. In Ida Marie Hede’s porous world\, which is our world too\, grime\, bacteria\, and even death are intimately bound up with health and renewal. Fusing the commonplace and the profound\, the material and the spiritual\, the elegiac and the conceptual\, Adorable powerfully insists that it is impossible to tell where death and life begin or end. \nThe Dolls by Urusula Scavenius (translated from Danish by Jennifer Russell) is a collection of four stories from a world both fantastically strange and gruellingly familiar where isolation\, ruin\, prejudice\, and misinformation soar in an irresistible\, susurrant fugue of displaced families yearning to belong. The characters are plagued by unexplained illnesses and oblique\, human-made disasters and environmental losses: a big sister descends into the family basement; another sister refuses her younger brother; a third sister with memory loss is on the run and offered shelter by Notpla\, a man both an ally and an enemy\, and a fourth set of siblings travel to Hungary with their late mother in a coffin.  \nRelief by Steven Zultanski is a book of 11 poems that revolve around familiar experiences of discontinuous time: illness\, recovery\, habit\, sleep\, talk\, forgetfulness. Most of the texts are built from a number of moving parts that tend to lurch from one to another: transcribed speech\, malformed poetry\, and sub-allegorical sci-fi narratives. Relief treats health and sickness as inherently shared conditions\, both interpersonal and impersonal. Private anxieties are inseparable from communal joys. Care is messed up\, disjointed. Mundane conversations are occasions for rest and contentment\, or not. Grotesque fantasies are also occasions for rest and contentment\, or not. Sweet\, intimate\, and a little gross\, Relief is an intricately detailed and formally uneven affirmation of daily life. It also touches on: body horror\, vernacular knowledge of complex systems\, juvenile humor\, intergenerational psychic structures\, banal forms of time travel\, the ceaseless circulation of money\, bad jobs\, alternate dimensions\, nostalgia\, personal and social grooming\, and the pleasures of self-pity. \nThis event will take place as a Zoom webinar; please ask questions in the chat or send them in advance to  info@amscan.org. Registration is required; please sign up at the link above. This conversation will be recorded and available later to stream on our Virtual Programming page and on our YouTube channel. \nABOUT THE PANELISTS\nIda Marie Hede is the author of seven books and numerous plays. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and Goldsmiths College and graduated from the School of Creative Writing in Copenhagen in 2008. Hede has taught at Gladiatorskolen\, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts\, and is currently a creative writing lecturer at Johan Borup’s Højskole as well as an art critic for Dagbladet Information. She has received the Danish Art Council’s prestigious three-year working grant\, and in 2018 Adorable was nominated for the Danish Critics’ Prize for Literature. \nUrsula Scavenius is a writer based in Copenhagen. She is a graduate of the Danish Academy of Creative Writing and holds an MA in comparative literature and Italian from the University of Copenhagen. She debuted in 2015 with the short story collection Fjer/Feathers\, which won the Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen Prize and was nominated for the Montana Prize for Fiction. Her second book\, The Dolls\, was published in January 2020 and was shortlisted for the Edvard P. Prize that same year\, as was Feathers in 2015. \nSteven Zultanski is the author of several books\, most recently Relief (2021)\, On the Literary Means of Representing the Powerful as Powerless (2018)\, and Honestly (2018). His critical writing has appeared in Frieze\, Art in America\, Spike Art Magazine\, and elsewhere. In January 2017\, an art exhibition inspired by his book Agony (2012) entitled You can tell I’m alive and well because I weep continuously was shown at the Knockdown Center in Queens\, NY. He lives in Copenhagen. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nTom Conaghan is the editor at Lolli Editions. His non-fiction has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, the LA Review of Books\, and the London Magazine.
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