Film 3 out of 4: The harsh and breathtaking nature of the Faroe Islands provides the backdrop for the two young artists Marianna Mørkøre and Rannvá Káradóttir’s supernaturally beautiful black-and-white pictorial poem, which presents itself with mysterious tableaux like shadows from another world. The luminous sky, the ragged rocks and the grass-clad expanses form a magnificent stage, where figures dressed in black and with pale faces perform an enigmatic ritual, where a small girl in a dress dances through a luminous haze of light. There are elements of both mythology and science fiction in the visionary work by the Faroese artist duo, which is devised as a cycle with eight parts, and we are hereby presenting the “half-way premiere” of the first four. With their common background in dance, performance, fashion studies and not least photography and film, it is not surprising that this is a visually gifted work, which both subscribes to and at the same time renews experimental filmmaking’s great tradition of studying movement and physicality. The style is unmistakably Nordic, and very modern, as the ghost-like landscapes float across the screen against an underplayed ambient / drone soundtrack. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
Released: | November 9, 2011 | |
Runtime: | 7 min | |
Genres: | Documentary Short | |
Crew: | Rannvá Káradóttir Marianna Mørkøre | |
Xsile : S1 and so far S2