Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”Swedish filmmaker Roy Anderssons celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The songs of the films title refer to Anderssons artistic ruminations on the state of mankind from his office on the second floor of Studio 24 in Stockholm. The film presents a series of forty six tableauxlong, deep focus shots with a still camera,