bits and pieces from the northern island.
Just a few more days before RIFF Reykjavík International Film Festival starts. The festival is in its seventh year and keeps on getting better and better. Here are some — expected — highlights of this 2011 edition. The films Kind of obvious, isn’t it? Films will be the core of the festival. Twelve films are … Read the full article →
Reykjavík’s Menningarnótt is coming: this year the appointment is for the 20th of August. The first edition of this one-day festival dates back to 1996. This is the 16th year that Iceland’s capital is celebrating its Culture Night and the agenda is as usual very rich, counting over 100 different events for just a single … Read the full article →
After reading this entry on Iceland Review, I was really looking forward to the photography exhibition on Karl Christian Nielsen hosted by Reykjavik Museum of Photography. Karl Christian Nielsen was a man of the people and, for his time, a pioneer. He portrayed in several photographs the life and the places of Icelanders. Rarely the working … Read the full article →
Superior artists are not only extraordinarily gifted in their specific area of interest, they are also extremely skilled in the art of teasing. Björk is one of those artists capable of generating interest far beyond normally tolerated levels with each and every one of her feats. News and speculations have been circulating about Björk’s Biophilia … Read the full article →
Icelandic Cinema Online is a new reference point for getting acquainted with Icelandic films, both for the committed viewer and the curious or casual watcher. Icelandic Cinema Online’s aim is to create a platform for Icelandic producers and filmmakers to promote their works to a broader audience and, at the same time, for the public … Read the full article →
This Thursday, at 8 pm, Mini-Ciné Reykjavík will be screening Gillies MacKinnon’s Hideous Kinky. The film, an adaptation from Esther Freud’s (great-granddaughter of a certain Sigmund) autobiographical novel bearing the same title, follows a woman and her two young daughters in their attempt to break free from the dreary lifestyle of urban England in the … Read the full article →
The fifth edition of Sequences Art Festival is about to start in Reykjavík. From the 1st to the 10th of April, several galleries, venues and cultural spaces and institutions around Iceland’s capital will host exhibitions, lectures and performances of various genres. As the name suggests, Sequences is an event whose main field of interest are … Read the full article →
From the 24th to the 27th of March 2011, the city of Reykjavík will host the annual DesignMarch festival, an event that takes place yearly in the capital area at the beginning of Spring since 2009. DesignMarch is the occasion to get in touch with some of the most interesting currents of contemporary Icelandic design, … Read the full article →