Herðubreið – cinema Skaftfell will screen two film Saturday June 20 at 20.00 in Herðubreið, cinema, in connection with the ongoing exhibition Real Life. My Dreams Are Still About Flying (2012) by Cecilia Nygren (SWE) Time and Time Again (2014) by Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir (IS) & Markús Þór Andrésson (IS) Cecilia Nygrens 2012 video, My Dreams Are Still About Flying. Concerns Walter Steiner, the protagonist of Werner Herzogs The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), a documentary about Steiners hobby of woodcarving while being the worlds pre-eminent ski jumper. Nygrens film finds Steiner in northern Sweden where he works as a […]
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SUM
Premier screening of the new film work SUM by Cai Ulrich von Platen. Sunday March 1, at 16:00 in Herðubreið cinema. About the film: We enter a small intimate office-space in Copenhagen. From the safe surroundings of two elderly accountants performing their daily book keeping routines, we are oscillated out to similarly unspectacular scenes in Hanoi, Hamburg, Damascus and Narva in Estonia. We hear speaking voices, but the moving bodies, the exchange of goods, of gazes and positions is what layers into a sum of life. The point of departure of SUM is simple: A single man with his small […]