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Dagur Kári's Nói the Albino. Af Björn Norðfjörð. 165 sider, 14 x 19 cm. Ill: 13 fotos, 1 kort. Pris kr 175,00. Museum Tusculanums Forlag. Udgivet 20/8 2010. (Nordic Film Classics)

En bog om den islandske filminstruktør Dagur Kári og hans film Nói the Albino (Nói Albínói, 2003). Nói Albínói er blevet anerkendt på den internationale filmscene som en film der er umiskendeligt islandsk, men som samtidig appellerer til et bredere publikum. Netop filmens spændvidde mellem det lokale og det globale gør den til en moderne klassiker. "The film offers a wonderful opportunity to think about questions of national identity, the fraught relationship between the local and the global and what might be defined as 'islandness.' It is hoped that this book, as a result, may help to shed some light not only on Nói the Albino but also on broader, complementary themes"(fra Introduction).
Björn Norðfjörð ser i bogen nærmere på temaerne i Nói Albínói og på filmens visuelle stil samt dens vigtigste scener, og han sætter filmen ind i en bredere islandsk filmhistorisk kontekst. Nói Albínói tager evigtgyldige temaer op som eskapisme og eksistentiel angst, mens Vestfjordene - der er indbegrebet af Island - udgør en næsten surrealistisk baggrund for filmens temaer.
Set i forhold til udfordringerne ved transnational filmvirksomhed er Dagur Káris film en betydelig succes. Filmen og dens plads i den islandske filmhistorie er et eksempel på de udfordringer der møder en lille nation som Island, når den har ambitioner om at gøre sig gældende i filmverdenen.
"The general introduction to Nói the Albino in the first chapter emphasized, among other things, the film's international success despite its local setting and narrative. The second chapter turned the film into something of a compass in addressing the question of islandness and the specificity of island cinema, suggesting it might be the ultimate island film due to both its mise-en-scène and its thematic discussion of peripherality. The third chapter surveyed Icelandic cinema and its recent transnational turn before addressing the specificity of Nói the Albino through a comparison with relevant Icelandic films while highlighting its unique setting in the Westfjords. The focus was on broad themes and issues but allowed for a closer look at the film in search of guides, like the maps, with which to decipher the text. And with the film at the center in the fourth chapter, the analysis was also motivated by the larger concerns, as when relating Nói's isolation and existential crisis to the island metaphor and the geopolitical investigation of peripherality. The approach is invited by Nói the Albino itself, as this film is a text in which minute details always tie in with larger questions. Its world may appear to be an enclosed one, but it is one that continues to surprise in its wide-ranging connotations"(fra In Lieu of a Conclusion).
Bogen afsluttes med et interview med filmens instruktør Dagur Kari.
Björn Norðfjörð, lektor, leder af the Film Studies Program ved Islands Universitet

UDDRAG AF INDHOLD: Icebreaker. Islands. Iceland. Isolation, or the Nausea of Nói.
In Lieu of a Conclusion. Interview with Dagur Kári.
Credits. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

UDGIVERE:

University of Washington Press

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