Roy Andersson: The Essence of the Complex Image

Abstract

The work of Roy Andersson, a Swedish auteur that turned its back to Realism and embraced Abstractionism, embodies one of the few truly defying and groundbreaking attitudes in modern Cinema: the denial of speed. The current essay focus on the methods through which he obtains this effect and the contribution of his body of work to the Aesthetics of Cinema.

Keywords

• Roy Andersson
• Aesthetics
• Audiovisual essay
• Trilogy of the living
• Complex image
• Slow cinema