Trade stories, film policy and radical uncertainty: Remarks on Scandinavian cinema and COVID-19 inspired by ‘Digging the digital?’

Abstract

A selection of Corona-related trade stories from the field of ‘creative documentary’ is examined and connected to a discussion about government film policy – long-term support structures as well as ad hoc measures to counter the effects of COVID-19 – all in an effort to gauge the pandemic’s ramifications for Scandinavian cinema and the film industry’s navigation of conditions of radical uncertainty.