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Superficiality is the new dialogue

Marianne Solberg / February 8, 2020

ART: A concept-oriented micro art history work that reevaluates its value

Ahmad Gossein, art, decolonization, Germania, Heidegger, History, Kajsa Dahlberg, Marianne Heske, morality, Nazism, Norway, Theodor Adorno, Victor Lind

Crises are good business

Ketil Fred Hansen / January 1, 2020

AFRICA: A considerable number of consultants and commissioned researchers have profited from the crises in the African belt. Sahel has emerged as a crucial area for not only Norway but also for the EU and the USA.

Africa, AFRICOM, chad, drugs, EU, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Middle East, MINUSMA, Niger, Norway, Sahel, Senegal, UN, US

Add my film to my profile

Truls Lie / December 15, 2019

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More than sun and heat

Ketil Fred Hansen / June 30, 2019

MIGRANTS: An uneven book about people who move with a desire for a better life but encounter problems when they move «home» again.

Algeria, Alicante, Costa Blanca, Dakar, France, Global South, isis, Mexico, migrants, Norway, saudi arabia, Senegal, Spain, USA

A world in stable motion

Ketil Fred Hansen / June 2, 2019

MIGRANTS: In 2018, the Collège de France established its own professorship in migration studies. Francois Héran was chosen to fill it, and the book Migrations et sociétés is an extended version of his accession lecture.

Africa, Bolivia, Europe, Fernand Braudel, Germany, human rights, immigrants, inequality, michel foucault, migrants, Norway, paris, Pierre Bourdieu, Poland, Roland Barthes, Spain, Sweden

Is the EU «sleepwalking towards oblivion»?

Nick Holdsworth / March 24, 2019

POPULISM: Democracy Ltd is a wake-up call for the people of Europe at a time when the dark forces of populism are on the rise.

Allegro Film, Angela Merkel, Belgium, Brexit, Britons, Brussels, corrupt, CPH:DOX, Democracy, Democracy Ltd, EU, Eurosceptic, France, George Soros, Greece, Grexit, job market, Labour party, Norway, Political, politicians, populism, referendum, Robert Schabus, social, Soviet Union, workers, working class

The making of AURORA

Carmen Gray / February 27, 2019

Once Aurora paints a picture of an industry of men intent on using the young Norwegian artist AURORA as a tool to further their own ambitions more than to nurture her own creative independence.

adolescence, artist, Aurora, Aurora Aksnes, Benjamin Langeland, Brazil, capitalistic, celebrity, copenhagen, CPH:DOX, cynical, elf, fans, favours, feminist, feminist evolution, FIPADOC, Flimmer Film, gang, IDFA, indie, intimacy, Krakow International Film Festival, Lady Gaga, Magnus Skylstad, MakeDox, Me Too, Me Too movement, misogyny, money-making, music, music documentary, Norway, norwegian, Once Aurora, R Kelly, rigid, Ryan Adams, selfhood, singer, Social media, Stian Servoss

Intimacy versus American convention

Ellen Lande / November 16, 2018

UTØYA: Between the two recent films depicting the Utøya massacre, Reconstructing Utøya is the one that succeeds.

Åsne Seierstad, barbarity, Carl Javér, credibility, Fredrik Lange, gunshots, lars von trier, Liv Ask, massacre, Mohammed, Netflix, Norway, Oslo, Paul Greengrass, Reconstructing Utøya, silence, Story, survivors, Swedish-Norwegian, terrorism, terrorist, trauma, unreal, UTØYA, Utøya

Zero conference and Nobel prices

Truls Lie / November 6, 2018

CLIMATE CHANGE: If you are prone to dismiss warnings about environmental destruction as exaggerations, you might as well stop reading right away.

bio-economy, Celsius, China, CICERO, climate, climate change, Climate Conference, CO2, consumer, consumerism, consumption, corals, Dark Age, deserts, eco-philosophers, ecology, Economist, ecosystems, emission-free, energy, environment, environmental, Fossil-energy, Frede Vestergård, Germany, Glen Peters, global warming, green growth, green leadership, green transport, greenhouse, greenhouse effects, heat waves, Hoesung Lee, Industrial Age, industrialisation, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, jungle, Mumbai, new Dark Age, Nobel Economics Prize, Nobel-prize, Norway, Ny Tid, ocean, Oslo, paris, Paul Romer, plastic jungle, poverty, recycling, renewable energy, savannahs, solar cells, South Korea, sovereign, Taiwan, tech optimists, temperatures, The Economist, urbanisation, Weekendavisen, William Nordhaus, Yale, Zero Conference

Authoritarian or Democratic?

Truls Lie / June 2, 2018

At the Oslo Freedom Forum’s (OFF) press conference, a question from the audience makes tempers flare.

activists, Authoritarian, Democratic, Emmanuel Jal, Farida Nabourema, human rights, journalists, Norway, Oslo, Oslo Freedom Forum, politicians, Thor Halvorssen

Soothing reconstructions of the Utøya massacre

Ellen Lande / June 1, 2018

If you can only bear watching one film about Utøya, Reconstructing Utøya is worth the wait.

Carl Javér, Fredrik Lange, Norway, Reconstructing Utøya (work in progress), Scandinavia, Utøya

Interpretation and prejudice

Ellen Lande / March 5, 2018

Dramatizations of our great national tragedy are lining up. Why is it more sensitive that a foreigner tells the story of 22 July tan one of our own filmmakers?

Brexit, Nedin Mutic, Netflix i, Norway, Paul Greengrass, Utøya