Aspects of Liminality in Knut Erik Jensen’s Stella Polaris (1993)
Aspects of Liminality in Knut Erik Jensen’s Stella Polaris (1993)

Summary/Abstract: This review article provides an analysis of Knut Erik Jensen’s feature film Stella Polaris (Norway 1993) and shows how it relates to various forms of liminality. Firstly, I argue that Jensen’s film articulates an understanding of Norway’s northernmost county of Finnmark as a liminal, rather than marginal location. Secondly, I argue that Stella Polaris presents history as a constantly changing contingent product of various and often competing individual memories, negotiated on elusive liminal grounds in-between the past and future, and thirdly, I direct attention to Jensen’s peculiar aesthetics which activate the liminal transitory spaces between shots, and between image and sound, in order to get its message across.

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