17 Mai in Liverpool 2012 - Ann Giles |
Like Norwegians everywhere, the Liverpool International Nordic Community (LiNC) will be celebrating 17 Mai - Norway’s national day. With the usual festivities, the celebrations will be including an exploration of a Norwegian TV phenomenon becoming more popular around the world.
LiNC is based at the Nordic church on Park Lane just off the city centre (and under 4 miles from Anfield and Goodison Park), built in 1884. It caters for all Nordic nations, ex pats, visitors, descendants and friends, acting not only as a place of worship but as a cultural centre. It caters for all Nordic nations, ex pats, visitors, descendants and friends, acting not only as a place of worship but as a cultural centre.
Tim Prevett interviewed on NRK2 |
During the afternoon a 29 minute documentary about a style of television from Norway now called Slow TV - will be screened, with a short talk and questions and answers with its producer and director who has been researching the story of Sakte TV for the past year.
17 Mai Liverpool 2012 - Ann Giles |
“That Damned Cow - Just what is Norwegian Slow TV?” explores the genre’s story interviewing producers, participants and distributors of some of the best known shows with interviews in Oslo and Bergen. Filming behind the scenes at the last Slow TV event in Norway in Trondheim, the documentary maker, Tim Prevett was interviewed live on national TV and also by BBC Radio Stoke about his film making.
Tim comments “What sets Slow TV apart from other kinds of TV is that it is more relaxing and when done in a way which allows public participation a kind of magic happens where people bring their own content to a broadcast. Slow TV is about a journey or activity being celebrated in the time it actually takes to do it. Not with bits cut out or sped up. That’s what makes it ‘slow’. With BBC4 Goes Slow in early May in the week of a General Election and an American Slow TV production in November on ‘Black Friday’, this sort of telly is about to get a lot more attention. With Slow TV recognised as a Norwegian cultural export I’m delighted in celebrating Norway with a screening of it at the Nordic Church in Liverpool for Syttende Mai”.
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Notes to Editors:
17 Mai Liverpool 2012 - Ann Giles |
A Facebook event page for the Liverpool 17 Mai Celebrations is here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1421631498144561
Photographers / media will be welcome at the Pier Head, during the parade or at the church upon the parade’s arrival there.
CONTACTS:
http://nordicliverpool.co.uk/, 138 Park Lane, Liverpool L1 8HG, (+44) (0) 151 709 7763
Tim Prevett (Director / Producer) TimPrevett@gmail.com (+44) (0) 7905 597 242
A trailer for the documentary can be viewed and linked to here, or with code for embedding here: https://vimeo.com/121139134
MEDIA ATTACHMENTS:
That Damned Cow |
Three pictures from Liverpool 17 Mai parade in 2012 by Ann Giles - please retain watermark or credit if used
A screenshot from the documentary title
A screenshot from Tim Prevett’s interview on NRK2 last December, with permission from NRK
A screenshot from the documentary title
A screenshot from Tim Prevett’s interview on NRK2 last December, with permission from NRK
Slow Television - The Slow TV Blog
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