Cold Hearts: Icelandic Music and Film 2006 Ages 15+
MINI DV, COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE, STEREO, 75 MINS, ICELAND, ENGLISH AND ICELANDIC (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
Featuring macabre stop animation, the secret life of moss, mouse suits, exploding dictaphones, women who live on clouds, Outkast ballads, and some very creative uses for whipped cream, Cold Hearts represents the whimsical Icela ndic imagination. 17 artist films and music videos cover expansive aesthetic ground. Working in locales as diverse as art school in Los Angeles to the craggy vistas of Skagafjördur in northern Iceland, these young artists explore their native and adopted worlds in inventive ways. Intrinsically dark and aloof, yet also refreshingly honest, Cold Hearts is a glimpse into the curious cultural landscape of Iceland now.
Fri 23 May 8.00pm / Cinema A
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Global Capital 2005 A stop-animation music video for the all-man band, featuring Icelandic flags, bread crumbs, and other ephemera. |
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Husid a Antmannstignum (House on Antmannstig) 2003 A stop-animation nature video. |
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Hey Ya! 2004 A cover of the Outkast song that became then-20 year-old Thórir's first hit. Shot in a single take. |
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Green Grass of Tunnel 2002 Inspired by the mysterious terrain where the music was made, the very lighthouse and valley the band lived whilst recording Finally We Are No One 2002 is remade into a fantastical dreamland.
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Jean 1997 An ironic story of a French banker and his troublesome marriage with the adorable Jean, featuring his thoughts of love, death, and, of course, marriage. |
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Toilet 2005 A short form art piece exploring the juxtaposition between primal physical pleasures and the feelings we associate with their aftermath.
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Untitled 2005 A lo-fi, hybrid art film/music video shot in the lovely meadows of Seydisfjord and featuring a menagerie of dancing characters. |
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Landslag 2004 A visual nature poem consisting of images taken from the Skagafjördur region of Iceland. |
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Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása (Good Weather for Airstrikes) 2001 Starring an amateur cast, and featuring cameos by the band as soccer referees, two young friends face their feelings for each other on the soccer field. |
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Stop in the Name of Love 2003 A cover of the Supremes' classic reimagined as a home movie shot in pastoral Iceland. |
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Who's Bardi 2003 A group of filmmakers follows the Icelandic musical prodigy and Bang Gang lead singer Bardi Jóhannsson around. He gives the impression of being a health freak, into spiritual things and sports. The filmmakers look more closely and discover a world of contradictions. |
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Romantic Undead 2005 Featuring a ghost that slithers inside a dictaphone, sings and explodes. |
