The Norwegian essay
A somewhat arbitrary – or should we say unnatural – overview of the essayist in our small country.
From aliens to aliens
FILM FESTIVAL IN BERGEN: A hypothetical visit from space, a plausible conspiracy theory about the Chernobyl accident, a personal experiment on the effects of sugar and a lively portrait of two teenage girls from the space crowd are among the documentaries shown at the Bergen International Film Festival.
Emotional power among self-pity soups
FILM FESTIVAL: Among some flat sentimentality during the short film festival in Odense, Gustav Möller's departure film from the Danish Film School, In the Dark, stood out with his stylized portrait of a forced woman.
Machine and humanity
TV SERIES: What is Mechanical in Man? The Humans series allows for more nuanced reflections on the relationship between man and machine.
"We tell ourselves and each other stories to survive"
Interview: Ny Tid met director Joachim Trier before the premiere of his new film Louder Than Bombs, to talk about what experiences and what thinking it takes to make quality films.
Top women in the US and UN?
2016 can be a brand year for women and politics. The United States will elect a president, and the United Nations will have a new secretary general. Will a woman manage to break through?
Selfie – from selfishness to altruism?
Smile at your own mirror image and the world is waving back.
A golden, green landscape
Romania offers more than corruption, poverty and architectural remains of Ceausescu's great madness – for example, divinity, national feast and optimism.
Organic grief work
Something in the world has run smoothly – something opaque, animalistic.
Euthanasia in the family
FILM: The veteran Bille August has returned to his homeland with a well-played ensemble film about a difficult and brave theme.
Misanthropic meditation
Breathe in, and exhale: Read Dragseth's new long poem aloud. It is a fair, a meditation, a poem that leaves you sleepless and troubled for the future of the globe and of humanity.
Moral autonomy in the room
GAMES: The space classic Elite has come in new clothes, but it is the infinite universe and the many moral choices that are the driving force of the game.
Bold text, open work. One poetics
POESI: Heart that stops beating is the narrator's pulse.
Intensity without clipping
MOVIE: The more than two-hour feature film A Night in Berlin is filmed in one unbroken shot, by the Norwegian star shot Sturla Brandth Grøvlen.
In the beginning was the beauty
ESSAY: I'm looking for the beauty of which I still have bodily memories. But where is it now?
The war on children is becoming increasingly brutal
The world has never faced such serious challenges when it comes to children in conflict that right now – and the world community is doing too little to protect children from war.
Turn off those damn mobile cameras!
The other day, I experienced a civilian breakdown in the roller coaster in an amusement park. It involved mobile cameras and ruthless curiosity. And a lifesaver person.
To stroll through Via Appia's side streets
SOUTH ITALY TRAVEL SESSAY: Terracina's winding stairs and streets are full of cultural history, weeds, crooked cobblestones and wading lizards – and it is not always good to know if they lead to the purgatory, Rome or the resort's umbrellas.
Many faceted meetings in Moss
FESTIVAL: Europe is the theme when the Mill City Literature Festival is organized for the fifth time.
The cabbage crisis policy
TRAVEL LETTER: When the state does not seize those who fall outside, it is good that Americans have God – and cabbage.
Fragile sustainability on the Perhentian Islands
Southeast Asia's natural stop for backpackers and one of Malaysia's foremost ecotourism destinations is threatened by major operators' development projects.
The center of the world lies in Sunnfjord
Artist mobility seems to be a good thing for both the traveler and the city he travels to.
The town's throaty rope
TRAVEL LETTER: It's not for nothing that this is the most mythologized city in the world, and perhaps one of the most fussy.
The refugees Norway will not help where they are
Far in the north of Syria, the terrorist group ISIS has gone through one defeat after another. Kurdish defense forces are on the offensive against the new ISIS fascism.
Comedy with booze
Funny comedies about sex come less often than one would think, but The Little Death is a happy exception.