Brazil made the heart beat faster.
Dreamomentary is an improvisation and a conversation between Helen Rödel, Glamour Et cetera, Brazil, Iceland and the camera. The point of departure for the film is Helen Rödel, witnessing her preparation, participation and reflections of her show at Casa de Criadores, the film is a portrait of a caring designer, an energetic event and a saturated city as experienced by Glamour Et cetera.
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MAKE by Þorpið started as a community initiative in East Iceland to facilitate people in creating their own opportunities within the fields of design and crafts. Then the world heard about it and now it is a fast growing international design and development platform. MAKE by Þorpið is an encouragement to look back as well as to look forward, and to look around us and realise what we have and how it can be employed.
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Deep inside Reykjavík’s Concert Hall Harpa, in a humid and bright red Eldborg, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra is playing away. This is where we find harpist Katie Buckley and percussionist Frank Aarnink concentrated on interpreting a score to hand gestures, which to some might appear as aimless waving, yet undoubtedly results in the most magnificent musical experiences. But just you wait…
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You are never faced as blatantly with the fact that some people do things substantially different from the ones you do as when curled up in a fetal posture for seven hours, scared to open your eyes and breathing as lightly as possible to prevent your body from moving the slightest millimeter. In this self indulgent and vulnerable situation a frightening thought kicks in; if you had an option, you would choose death over this.
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Agla’s Master Project is practice-led research, an internal analysis of her own design process. Stripping the process of themes and stories she relies on her own impressions and curiosity within the process to lead the way. This requires her to seek for a meditative state and bring the subconscious design knowledge to the forefront. The journey is guided by intuition, hidden intentions, reflections and serendipity with the aim to allow the design process itself to lead her to create something unpredictable.
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Bókakaffi is created and run by the Icelandic philosopher and 80’s popstar Gréta Sigurjónsdóttir. It used to be an old bookstore that Gréta’s uncle-in-law ran for many years by the bridge over Lake Lagarfljót in East Iceland. Now it is Bókakaffi.
Bookshop or a café… it’s like having a coffee at grandpas book room, but with better coffee.
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