SHOPTALK #1 með Þorbjörgu Jónsdóttur og Lee Lorenzo Lynch

SHOPTALK#1 

Hvað er „Shoptalk“? Ólíkt hefðbundnum listamannaspjöllum, þar sem myndlistarmenn stíga á svið til að ræða verk sín og ferli, víkkar „Shoptalk“ sjóndeildarhringinn til að rýna í skapandi huga tónlistarmanna, dansara, danshöfunda og fjölda annarra skapandi listamanna annarra en þeirra sem fást við sjónlistir. Markmið þessarar „Shoptalk“ seríu er að vera vettvangur fyrir alla, hvort sem þú ert áhugamanneskja um listir, atvinnulistamanneskja eða einfaldlega knúin áfram af forvitni.

Í hverjum mánuði verðum við með mismunandi skapandi einstaklinga sem gefa skemmtilega innsýn inn í einstakann heim sköpunar sinnar.

Við bjóðum þér á fyrsta viðburðinn í þessari röð sem fer fram 21. september í Elissa (sal) Norræna hússins. Lengd viðburðarins er 90 mínútur, en á þeim tíma munu Lee og Þorbjörg ræða verk sín og í lok viðburðuar verður tækifæri til að spurja spurninga og eiga spennandi samtal.

Ekki missa af þessu tækifæri.

Ókeypis inn og öll velkomin.
Þessi viðburður fer fram á ensku.  

*English*
Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir and Lee Lorenzo Lynch are documentary and narrative filmmakers and artists who work both separately and apart. This evening they will talk about their process and screen excerpts from works in progress. These include Þorbjörg’s forthcoming documentary Coca Dulce Tabaco Frio shot on 16mm in the Colombian jungle, a film that explores the indigenous cultures’ religious beliefs surrounding the sacred coca plant. Lee will screen clips from his newest essay film Twilight Economy, which is a part of a series of work that explores the theme of life imitating film and television. This new entry details the failing tourist economy in small town Forks Washington (where the Twilight Saga is set), and misrepresentation of the Quiliute Indians who are portrayed as werewolves and have been thrown into the cultural zeitgeist without their consent. Together the two filmmakers will screen an excerpt from their new collaborative film titled There Once Was a Puffin, about the effects of global warming on Iceland’s Puffin population, as well as a clip from their upcoming historical Viking epic In the Land of Meadows, a hybrid film based on the Vinland Sagas.

Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir is an experimental filmmaker from Iceland who holds an MFA degree in filmmaking from CalArts and a BA degree in visual arts from the Iceland University of the  Arts. Her films navigate between ethnography and abstract formalism, exploring preternatural states where oral-mythology and landscape collide. Þorbjörg’s films and video installations have screened both in galleries and film festivals in Europe, Asia and the US, at venues such as CPH:DOX, IMAGES Festival, JEONJU Film Festival, Alchemy Film Festival, and LACMA.   
 
Raised in Redding, California, Lee Lorenzo Lynch (1980) has been making films since the age of 13. He holds a BFA in Film from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Fine Art from the University of Southern California. His films have shown at FIDMarseille, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Full Frame, The Viennale, Tribeca, and Sundance. His second feature length film, The Murder of Hi Good, is a true crime revisionist acid-western set in Northern California circa 1870 against the backdrop of the California Indian Wars. 

AÐGENGI: Þessi viðburður fer fram á Ensku. Elissa Salur Hefur gott aðgengi og á sömu hæð eru aðgengileg salerni. Öll salerni hússins eru kynhlutlaus. 

Verkefnastjórn: Elham Fakouri
Grafísk hönnun: Janosch Kratz