Scandinavia House

ANTIQUITY BY HANNA JOHANSSON
2024-06-11 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! On June 11, we’ll be exploring Antiquity by Hanna Johansson, a queer Lolita story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.
On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her thirties upends the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter. Lust and admiration for Helena, a chic older artist, brings Antiquity’s unnamed narrator to Ermoupoli, where Helena’s daughter, Olga, seems at first like an obstacle and a nuisance. But the unpredictable forces of ego and desire take over, leading our narrator down a more dangerous path, and causing the roles of lover and beloved, child and adult, stranger and intimate to become distorted. As the months go by, the fragile web connecting the three women nears rupture, and the ominous consequences of their entanglement loom just beyond a summer that must end.
With echoes of Death in Venice, Call Me by Your Name, and The Lover, but wholly original and contemporary, Antiquity probes the depths of memory, beauty, morality, and the events that arrange our experience of the world.
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PREJUDICE & PRIDE | SCREENING & FILM TALK WITH EVA BELING
2024-06-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us on June 12 for a screening of Prejudice & Pride – Swedish Film Queer (Fördom & Stolthet, dir. Eva Beling, 2022), a documentary and rainbow-colored roller coaster ride through the history of Swedish queer cinema! Director Eva Beling will be present for a film talk and Q&A after the screening.
How could it possibly take 100 years to see a same-sex kiss in Swedish feature film? Queer people have played many roles throughout the entire history of Swedish film, but early onscreen portrayals of queerness were often profoundly tragic. In this documentary, director Eva Beling blends footage from the Swedish Film Institute archives and interviews with many pioneers of Swedish cinema. These include director Marie-Louise Ekman, writer and performer Jonas Gardell and Rikard Wolff, whose character Zac in House of Angels was one of the first widely loved queer figures in cinema. She also spoke with other figures about Swedish queer cinema today, including Mian Lodalen, Saga Becker, Gösta Ekman, Levan Akin, Ella Lemhagen, Bruce LaBruce and others.
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FOG SWEPT MANHATTAN — ADULT ART WORKSHOP WITH MELKORKA HELGADOTTIR
2024-06-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us at Scandinavia House for an adult art workshop and tour of our current exhibition, Fog Swept Cargo: Art from the Faroe Islands. Inspired by the work of artist Jóhan Martin Christiansen, workshop participants will create a watercolor painting. Guided by teaching artist Korka, participants will apply watercolors to watercolor paper to make an abstract triptych in a relaxed atmosphere. All materials are provided.
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