Vird

director: Katrín Helena Jónsdóttir

original title: Vird

year: 2015

running time: 3 min.

synopsis

Vird is a film based on the idea of “manual cutting on set” using only lights to make cuts in the video. The only post-production was the composition of a soundscape fitting to the movements and cutting the frame down to smaller frames that would play a fraction of a second later or sooner than the next small frame. Vird is the result of wanting to break up movement in time, effected by surrealism and the “bad” girls in Věra Chytilová’s Daisies, and using the new way of editing.

biography

Katrín Helena Jónsdóttir graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 2016. Video and sound have been the main sources of her artwork but two dimensional works, such as illustrations and book design have also been an important part of the creative process. She became a student at the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts where she started to be strongly influenced by video art and filmmaking. Time has been an important theme in her works.

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director:

Katrín Helena Jónsdóttir

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