Masterclass: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson

director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

original title: Masterclass: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson

year: 2016

running time: 85 min.

synopsis

Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thór Fridrikssonis best known for his fiction film Children of Nature (1991), which earned him an Oscar nomination. In the 1980s, he founded his home country’s most important production company, The Icelandic Film Corporation, which closely collaborates with Denmark’s Zentropa. At his directing master class, he will present his latest documentary film Horizon – a portrait of Icelandic landscape painter Georg Guðni, in which Fridriksson explores the relationship between the artist, his work, reality, and the viewer.