RéalisationDirected by
Erna Ómarsdóttir, Valdimar Jóhannsson & Pierre-Alain Giraud
Une chorégraphie pour microscope : la caméra parcourt les corps de si près qu’ils deviennent des paysages étrangers, portée par la musique de Sigur Rós. Créé en ouverture du Winter Lights Festival de Reykjavik, projeté sur deux réservoirs à pétrole du port — puis diffusé dans le monde entier par NOWNESS.A choreography for microscope: the camera travels the bodies so closely that they become foreign landscapes, carried by the music of Sigur Rós. Created for the opening of Reykjavik’s Winter Lights Festival, projected onto two oil tanks in the harbour — then released worldwide by NOWNESS.
Aussi intitulé Life in the undergrowth. À l’écran : Erna Ómarsdóttir, Valdimar Jóhannsson, Pierre-Alain Giraud, les danseurs de l’Iceland Dance Company — Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir, Hannes Þór Egilsson… — la mère d’Erna et leur fils de six ans. « The band’s music has many small sounds that are subtle, showing what is hidden in front of our eyes. We built on these sounds; making a choreography for a microscope where the performance happens on the body itself. »Also titled Life in the undergrowth. On screen: Erna Ómarsdóttir, Valdimar Jóhannsson, Pierre-Alain Giraud, the dancers of the Iceland Dance Company — Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir, Hannes Þór Egilsson… — Erna’s mother and their six-year-old son. “The band’s music has many small sounds that are subtle, showing what is hidden in front of our eyes. We built on these sounds; making a choreography for a microscope where the performance happens on the body itself.”
