P. Stuart Robinson
P. Stuart Robinson (1958), is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Tromsø. He is a regular contributor on cultural events for Tromsø’s net publication, Tromsø by.
Lilja Ingolfdottir’s debut feature Elskling is so good, we just have to pull it apart!
KVIFF 2024: On the one hand, Lilja Ingolfdottir’s Elskling («Loveable») provides a remarkably vivid case-study of mixed-up, complex and always flawed humanity. On the other, it shows us convincingly how some of the most destructive and self-destructive tendencies might be reined in.
BIFF 2023: Fight the power with documentary film!
BIFF 2023: Bergen International Film Festival is renowned for its documentaries, great vehicles for challenging authority, fighting the good fight. This year Åsmund Hasli’s Ping Pong Family and Sharon Roggio’s 1946: The Mistranslation that Changed Culture were two of the highlights.
Just make something up! Tales of tall tales and parables for our times (KVIFF 2022)
Karlovy Vary 2020: We live in an age of creative awakening. This is the flipside, the upside of ‘post-truth times.’ We know not where this leads but it behoves us to make the best of the journey. The alternative is dystopia – and we all know what that is like!
Adrian Dalen’s Baby fingers – just watch and learn! I’ve already said too much!
Movies on War 2021: Baby Fingers won the Nordic short-film competition in Elverum, squeezing out plenty of longer and more ‘weighty’ rivals, because it has the capacity to make us think and even to see ourselves with new eyes.
‘It’s a pity – they take your entire life’: Jan Šikl recalls the bitter pill of oppression in Reconstruction of Occupation
KVIFF 2021: Jan Šikl’s Reconstruction of Occupation may represent a timely reminder of the caprices of power and their human costs and, perhaps above all, the costs of capitulation.
Et kunstnerportrett av kunstnerportrettet – en studie av Trygve Luktvasslimos eksistensielle tvil
«Har du opplevd en eksistensiell krise i det siste? Jeg håper ikke møtet med Trygve Luktvasslimos filmtrilogi kaster deg ut i en. Eller kanskje du hadde hatt godt av det? De lærde strides om verdien av nitid selvgranskning.»
Norway’s got talent – so don’t squander it! Rebecca Figenschau’s Elephant Skin receives warm reception
Karlovy Vary 2016: Rebecca Figenschau’s short Elephant Skin (2015) received its international premiere and a warm reception at Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week. But why is this the only new Norwegian film being shown here?
What makes a film festival truly great? Searching for clues at Karlovy Vary’s 50th Anniversary
The festival – of film or anything else – is a powerful modern symbol of freedom and, at its best, an astonishing outpouring of human creativity. It depends on a delicate balancing-act between order and spontaneity, however.
From Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind to Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave: ‘A Counter-history’
Our taste for McQueen’s earnest – and now Oscar-winning – exposé says a lot about our own liberal complacency. In this respect we’d do well to develop a finer appreciation for the not so discrete charms of an earlier classic.
