nordic noir

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Butcher and the Wren

All Good People Here

Look Closer

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Kismet

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Jar of Hearts

The Sandman

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Σε αυτό το διαφορετικό επεισόδιο της σειράς «Να ένα βιβλίο!», δεν θα σας προτείνουμε απλώς κάποιο καλό βιβλίο, θα προτείνουμε πολλά ίσως, αλλά κυρίως θα προσπαθήσουμε να προσεγγίσουμε ένα σημαντικό φαινόμενο της εκδοτικής πραγματικότητας των τελευταίων χρόνων: το αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα. Ο συγγραφέας και βιβλιοκριτικός Κώστας Κατσουλάρης συζητά εφ’ όλης της ύλης με δύο από τους καλύτερους γνώστες του είδους στη χώρα μας, τους συγγραφείς, μεταφραστές και βιβλιοκριτικούς Χίλντα Παπαδημητρίου και Βαγγέλη Γιαννίση. Για τις ποικίλες όψεις του αστυνομικού μυθιστορήματος, από την Αγκάθα Κρίστι ώς τον Νέσμπο, για την ιστορία του και τις σύγχρονες τάσεις, τη «γεωγραφία» του, από το nordic noir έως το latin noir, αναζητούμε το κοινωνικό και πολιτικό του αποτύπωμα, τους λόγους της τεράστιας απήχησης του είδους παγκοσμίως αλλά και στη χώρα μας.

The interplay between popular culture and the ’real’ world is an interesting one: Can cultural products really have an effect on geopolitics? And can geopolitical actors learn from them? Robert Saunders thinks so. He is Professor in the Department of History, Politics and Geography the State University of New York and is interviewed by editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe. Find out more about how TV can be a tool in explaining geopolitics and historical events; and, how it is experimental ground for imagining how to deal with the uncertainty of future events, including relationships between countries and regions – and pandemics!

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MÃ¥ns MÃ¥rlind, co-creator of Scandi-noir sensation The Bridge is back with a big budget show set in the immediate aftermath of WW2, he joins us to talk about it. Plus, a discussion on Soviet filmmaker Aleksei German's GOMA retrospective, and a review of Shaka King's new feature film.

We love comics, but sometimes it's important to talk about the books outside of the common DC and Marvel superhero books. We talk Alan Moore, Dynamite comics, Brian K. Vaughn, Hellboy, and several more. We also get into what we've been watching recently including Lovecraft Country, Scooby-Doo, the Nordic noir series Signs, and many more.

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00:50 - What We've Been Watching
25:12 - Favorite Non-DC or Marvel comics

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The bold and charismatic Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje is most definitely on the forefront, when it comes to the musical avant-garde, known for stark contrasts and a nuanced balances. She is celebrated and awarded with prizes both in Scandinavia and abroad, including the Edvard Prize and prestigious UNESCO Rostrum Award. 

"The Nordic expression in music can be clear, often very strong and intimate. It's probably not the right to say it in such way, but it is 'very often to the point'. Even in making complex contemporary music, there is still a clear music expression. Arne Nordheim, probably the most famous Norwegian composer after Edvard Grieg, is the first name that comes to my mind, when people talk about Nordic music. And it is still full of warmth, directness and in some way comfort."
Maja S. K. Ratkje, The Nordics Unveiled

"We need to re-define what the Nordic identity is, as the world around is changing and we are becoming a bigger part of it. We need artistic reflections on what the rest of the world does to us and not only being nostalgic. We need the good art that lifts up the dark spaces and criticizes things that we too often take for granted. We need art that is beautiful in new ways and does not play only on clichés."
Maja S. K. Ratkje, The Nordics Unveiled

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Around a third of the world’s population play video games. But how are video games used to explore images of the Nordic region? What place do video games occupy in terms of cultural representations? To what extent can video games be considered part of a cultural hegemony from a historical culture perspective? 

Nordic regionality is expressed through different applications of game, game design and play. It is used in different ways (such as, counterfactual uses of history or using myth and nostalgia) and in different contexts (such as, using history and heritage). From a practical perspective, regional game production and game consumption by local teams and actors intersect with the mainstream and global game industry in different ways.

This podcast was recorded in September 2020 when the editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe caught up with three researchers from the Helsinki Game Research Collective from the University of Helsinki. The three participants - Heidi Rautalahti, Lysiane Lasausse, Ylva Grufstedt - are ideally placed to assist us in finding out more about the subject from different perspectives coming as they do from history, theology and Nordic Noir.

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Nordic sound is not easy to describe, when being part of the scene yourself (...) Perhaps there is not really a Nordic sound, but rather a Nordic rhythm. I perceive there is a different temporality in the music of Nordic countries, including Baltic. Lasse Thoresen, The Nordics Unveiled

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In the new episode of the Nordics Unveiled, Eldbjørg Hemsing is joint by the exceptional multi-faceted artist Mette Henriette. Norwegian Sami saxophonist, composer and performing artist has been captivating audiences and critiques around the globe – the youngest artist to be signed to the legendary label ECM, Mette’s debut album was also named the “Jazz Record of the year” (Independent).

"Having both Norwegian and Sami roots, this diverse origin taught me a lot about the cultural perspective. In contrast to the Western cultures, indigenous people have nurtured the relationship to the nature in a different way. And here the landscape has profoundly shaped people’s emotional as well as their time perception." Mette Henriette, The Nordics Unveiled

An artistic voice of today, Mette Henriette joins Eldbjørg Hemsing for a conversation about her inspiration and connection to the nature in the North, discovery of her Sami heritage and the Nordic sound.

"I think all the impressions and experiences that we have and we share here in the North are unique. Nature is certainly one of the big shapers on how to interact with our surroundings. Just looking at the spectrum of emotions, in lightness and light or the darkness. Too frequently it is either negative or positive connotations, instead of being the beauty that can be explored through creative crafts and expression forms" 

Mette Henriette, The Nordics Unveiled

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The lyrical, melancholic and often cautious optimists are a key words to explain what can often be characterized as Nordic. The clean, simple and often pictorial. At the same time, it is a courage and a force to be reckoned with, as can be drawn from Nordic fairy tales, often with a warm humor. Many of these features also appear in other artistic disciplines. How has history shaped us and what can we learn from who we are today?

Party Wagons, Batmobiles, He-Men, and pet monsters. We talk about the coolest toys we had as kids. Before that we discuss the video games of days past that we could never finish. We also get into what we've been watching recently including documentaries, martial arts movies, and Nordic Noir.

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01:46 - What We've Been Watching Recently
21:12 - Games We Never Beat
37:01 - Coolest Toys We Had as Kids

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An Australian theme runs through the show as Jason meets directors Tony McNamara (The Favourite, The Great) and Natalie Erika James (Relic), plus Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason talks about his unexpected take on Nordic noir.

La Mama Theatre is an ideal place to host the Australian premiere production of Lars Noren’s Courage to Kill. This tense two-hander, sometimes three-hander, from Sweden’s most celebrated playwright definitely works best in an intimate venue. It is one of those many plays that take place entirely in a domestic setting, in this case inside a young man’s apartment that he is forced to share with his father. While in some plays this makes the home seem like a bigger, grander place for having been the site of so much drama, Noren, and indeed set designer Charlotte Lane make it feel as though the walls are closing in on its inhabitants, largely because those walls are covered in sticky-taped newspaper clippings that keep being added to. As the audience takes their seats, director Richard Murphet places the son, Eric (Luke Mulquiney) at his desk and has him sort through the clippings while smoking a cigarette, in the manner of the classic film noir detective. He might have the jaded look, the unhealthy lifestyle and the rotating roster of young female lovers, but he’s a self-confessed coward, and a waiter, though a very attentive one apparently. However, none of this hospitality is afforded to his new housemate. His usually absent father, Ernst (Stephen House) has fallen on hard times. With nowhere else to go, Eric takes him in, more as his prisoner than anything else. While Ernst tries to make up for lost time, Eric tries to heal himself by punishing his father for what those years of parental neglect have done to him. Much of the play is a dance between pointing fingers and self-blame, between hurling insults and self-loathing, as the pair of them are sickened by the weakness they see in each other, and even more so when they see that same weakness in themselves.

After the interval, Eric’s new exotic young lover, Radka (Tamara Natt), comes to have dinner with them, an event that Ernst has long been looking forward to. With fresh eyes, she witnesses how harsh Eric is with his father, and how manipulative Ernst is with his son. She hears how quickly calm words turn into snarls, which then turn into barking shouts, which then turn into a silence that is finally broken by more calm but wounded words. Their similarities are what strikes Radka the most. In the heat of the moment, Eric struggles to muster the courage, or the nerve, to do the right thing, while Ernst often can’t, or won’t, control his urge to do the wrong thing. Eric couldn’t save a woman he saw being violated because he hesitated before delivering that punch to the head to the man who was attacking her. On the other hand, Ernst, as Radka finds out, would have more likely been the violator. Either way, the same damage is done. She ultimately realises that she is not safe with either of the two sides of this terrible coin.

All three cast members do an outstanding job. House is perfect as the ageing failure of a parent who invites both pity and scorn. Natt gives an entertainingly exaggerated performance as the siren-like voice of reason who drives the true selves of these two men right out of their self-righteous exteriors. Malquiney seems also a few steps removed from realism in his portrayal of the unhinged son tormented by the need to make his father proud, even one as flawed and wretched as Ernst is.

However, despite the efforts of these fine actors, and the ominous sound design by Adam Casey, this production is inbuilt with a highly melodramatic ending that runs more on poetic logic than character believability, unlike the rest of the play, which is largely realistic. Perhaps it is a fault in Marita Lindholm Gochman’s otherwise solid translation of the original Swedish text, but this play’s abrupt conclusion just doesn’t feel earned. However, if Noren hadn’t forcibly accelerated the proceedings at the end there this production may well have outstayed its welcome. Courage to Kill finishes more or less after it’s said everything it has to say, which is a hell of a lot, and all of it is richly engrossing.

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It's the first show of the year! This fortnight, Callan and Christian  disect presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's proposed Autism plan, Nicola discusses the recent tragic death of Kayden Clark, and Julia talks about why Saga Noren from  the Swedish/Danish crime drama The Bridge (Bron | Broen) is actually a really important Autistic character. 

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