Kirsten Thisted
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748694174
- eISBN:
- 9781474408561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter considers contemporary acts of appropriation undertaken by Greenlandic filmmakers, as a local feature film industry has only recently emerged in the capital of Nuuk. While there is ...
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This chapter considers contemporary acts of appropriation undertaken by Greenlandic filmmakers, as a local feature film industry has only recently emerged in the capital of Nuuk. While there is evidence of postcolonial protest against Denmark’s long dominance over Greenland, Thisted argues that in twenty-first century fiction feature films made in and about Nuuk, Greenland is situated as part of a global network of multicultural practices and representational techniques. Thisted examines Otto Rosing’s and Torben Bech’s Sundance-screened Nuummioq (2009), which is considered the first feature film produced in Greenland, and Angajo Lennert Sandgreen’s Hinnarik Sinnattunilu (2009). The chapter discusses these films as indications of an emerging cinematic autonomy, while Nuummioq’s international release was hampered by the fact that it had not been financed by the Danish Film Institute.Less
This chapter considers contemporary acts of appropriation undertaken by Greenlandic filmmakers, as a local feature film industry has only recently emerged in the capital of Nuuk. While there is evidence of postcolonial protest against Denmark’s long dominance over Greenland, Thisted argues that in twenty-first century fiction feature films made in and about Nuuk, Greenland is situated as part of a global network of multicultural practices and representational techniques. Thisted examines Otto Rosing’s and Torben Bech’s Sundance-screened Nuummioq (2009), which is considered the first feature film produced in Greenland, and Angajo Lennert Sandgreen’s Hinnarik Sinnattunilu (2009). The chapter discusses these films as indications of an emerging cinematic autonomy, while Nuummioq’s international release was hampered by the fact that it had not been financed by the Danish Film Institute.
Lill-Ann Körber
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748694174
- eISBN:
- 9781474408561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0011
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter traces the history of Arnold Fanck’s S.O.S Eisberg (1933), a Hollywood-Germany co-production released in separate versions in English and German by Universal Studios. Starring Leni ...
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This chapter traces the history of Arnold Fanck’s S.O.S Eisberg (1933), a Hollywood-Germany co-production released in separate versions in English and German by Universal Studios. Starring Leni Riefenstahl, the film tells the story of a scientific expedition lost in Greenlandic ice fjords. Körber considers the film in relation to the rugged, purity-of-nature Bergfilm (‘Mountain film’) genre and examines its proto-Nazi leanings, drawing on Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler (1947) and Susan Sontag’s ‘Fascinating Fascism’ (1975). She also analyses Fanck’s perhaps spurious claims about the authenticity of his representation of the Arctic, which were used as promotional material for the film, and signals their connection to the close collaboration with Knud Rasmussen, who was filming The Wedding of Palo (1934) in Western Greenland at the same time.Less
This chapter traces the history of Arnold Fanck’s S.O.S Eisberg (1933), a Hollywood-Germany co-production released in separate versions in English and German by Universal Studios. Starring Leni Riefenstahl, the film tells the story of a scientific expedition lost in Greenlandic ice fjords. Körber considers the film in relation to the rugged, purity-of-nature Bergfilm (‘Mountain film’) genre and examines its proto-Nazi leanings, drawing on Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler (1947) and Susan Sontag’s ‘Fascinating Fascism’ (1975). She also analyses Fanck’s perhaps spurious claims about the authenticity of his representation of the Arctic, which were used as promotional material for the film, and signals their connection to the close collaboration with Knud Rasmussen, who was filming The Wedding of Palo (1934) in Western Greenland at the same time.
