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Free Download Roy Andersson's "Songs from the Second Floor": Contemplating the Art of Existence (Nordic Film Classics) by Ursula Lindqvist
English | May 13, 2016 | ISBN: 0295998245, 0295998253 | True PDF | 212 pages | 2.9 MB
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson's celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The "songs" of the film's title refer to Andersson's artistic ruminations on the state of mankind from his office on the second floor of Studio 24 in Stockholm. The film presents a series of forty-six tableaux―long, deep-focus shots with a still camera, mostly in studio settings, using older visual tricks such as trompe l'oeil. The tableaux showcase seemingly trivial tragicomic situations designed to provoke thoughts about existential guilt, broken relationships, and the failure of social institutions to treat people as human beings.