On 25 - 26 August 2011, the National Library of Norway will host a film conference titled “The Law of Transformation: New Perspectives on Norwegian Cinema” on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Norway’s oldest extant film “Under forvandlingens lov” (“Under the Law of Transformation”, 1911). Among the national and international film scholars who will be providing new perspectives on 100 years of Norwegian fiction film are Tom Gunning, University of Chicago, Gunnar Iversen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Ute Holl, University of Basel, and Anne Gjelsvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
The afternoon session of the first conference day will be dedicated to the European Film Gateway, with presentations of the portal in general and more specifically on the National Library’s digital collections that can be searched and accessed via EFG.
For further information and to register, please see the conference programme and the conference website.