Midnight Sun: Film and Video from the North
Midnight Sun: Film and Video from the North
7 March – 18 April 2012 | GOMA Cinema
Free Admission
Midnight Sun: Film and Video from the North brings together a wide-ranging selection of film and video by contemporary Nordic filmmakers and artists. The program highlights some of the most engaging and unconventional work to have emerged during the last decade from filmmakers who have come to prominence for their off-beat humour, arresting cinematography and psychological subject matter.
Midnight Sun also includes: Coldsweat: Scandinavian Horror – a series of late-night screenings of Scandinavian horror; and The Millennium Trilogy – films based on the bestselling novels by Stieg Larsson.
Program film notes are abridged with sources as indicated. This program would not have been possible without the assistance of the Danish Film Institute, The Finnish Film Foundation, Icelandic Film Centre, Norwegian Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, and the artists and representing agents who have generously provided materials.
Midnight Sun: Filmmakers
The program features films by Roy Andersson (Sweden), Susanne Bier (Denmark), Ragar Bragason (Iceland), Jens Jonsson (Sweden), Dagur Kári (Iceland), Juho Kuosmanen (Finland), Aki Kaurismäki (Finland), Rune Denstad Langlo (Norway), Aku Louhimies (Finland), Lukas Moodysson (Sweden), Bobbie Peers (Norway), Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland), Joachim Trier (Norway) and Lars von Trier (Denmark)....Read more
Midnight Sun: Artists
Key contemporary artists working with the moving image are also profiled, including Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland), Knut Åsdam (Norway), Nathalie Djurberg (Sweden), Tellerro Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (Finland), Annika Larsson (Sweden), Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland) and Salla Tykkä (Finland)....Read more
Coldsweat: Scandinavian Horror
Coldsweat: Scandinavian Horror is a series of late-night screenings of the region’s best horror films. The program features films by Tomas Alfredson (Sweden), Antti-Jussi Annuila (Finland), André Øvredal (Norway), Lars von Trier (Denmark), Roar Uthaug (Norway) and Tommy Wirkola (Norway)....Read more
The Millennium Trilogy
A special opening weekend presentation of the original Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s series of time-spanning thriller novels — known as‘The Millennium Trilogy’....Read more
