Joachim Fjelstrup is Shooting Star

11. dec 2014 | BERLIN. "Joachim couldn't have made a better feature film debut than 'Itsi Bitsi'." The star of Ole Christian Madsen's rock biopic is selected as Denmark's Shooting Star, a European talent promotion…

The Look of Silence in Indonesia on Human Rights Day

11. dec 2014 | INDONESIAN RELEASE. "The Look of Silence" premiered last month in Indonesia, and Joshua Oppenheimer's film also had a highly symbolic screening on 10 December.

Animated Tupilaq to Sundance

10. dec 2014 | SUNDANCE. Jakob Maqe's "Tupilaq," taking its name from an ancient Greenlandic symbol, is part of the short film line-up at January's Sundance Film Festival.

New talent association in Northern Europe

09. dec 2014 | TALENT DEVELOPMENT. A number of film workshops and media centres in Northern Europe have founded Screen Talent Europe, a new network organisation aimed at helping talented filmmakers in the region.

From Outer Space to Sundance

04. dec 2014 | FESTIVAL. Michael Madsen's documentary "The Visit" is selected for Sundance Film Festival, starting up end of January.

Forthcoming Danish documentaries

04. dec 2014 | NEW DOCS. There are so many new Danish documentary films coming out that it can be hard to keep track of them all. To help out, here is a pick of some of the films that have just premiered or will do so in the…

Scherfig to give prestigious BAFTA lecture

03. dec 2014 | BAFTA. Lone Scherfig will be the first woman ever to give the BAFTA's David Lean lecture. Previous speakers include David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Pedro Almodóvar and Robert Altman.

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…

Making Love Detumescently: Some Preliminary Notes on the Body Language of the Penis

02. dec 2014. PEER REVIEWED. Although body language in the moving image may to a large extent be transparent, some aspects of body language are regulated by generic conventions, rating systems, and, historically,…

Expressing Suppression: Body Language, Information Distribution and the Frustrated Quest for Fictional Truth in Haneke's Caché

02. dec 2014. PEER REVIEWED. In Michael Haneke’s Caché body language emerges as the only criterion of fictional truth. The main character, Georges, is again and again subjected to scrutinizing gazes as he tries to…