A two day symposium / workshop with focus on the films that weren't. This symposium brings attention to unmade, discarded, forgotten, and failed films—a dimension of film culture and industry that we refer to as “shadow cinemas.” A full day of presentations by film and media scholars from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany and the UK will feature historical case studies as well as discussions of contemporary cultures of production. In this way, the symposium aims to reframe Scandinavian cinema: botched projects, wasted opportunities, and films that misfire account for most of the activity in the film sector, but have been largely neglected in film scholarship, especially in a Nordic context.
Department of Media Studies