Mannvirki
program information
Dirección, guión y fotografía:
Gústav Geir Bollason
Montaje:
Ninon Liotet
Música:
Hafdís Bjarnadóttir
Productor:
Hrönn Kristinsdóttir
Producción:
Go to Sheep
Critical text
The Icelandic filmmaker Gústav Geir Bollason offers in his sophomore movie an apparent documentary. In long shots, the camera captures a group of men and women that carry out strange tasks, alone or collectively, in an enormous, abandoned complex nearby a fjord. The film refusal to give the viewers context about the characters or the setting they seem to live in triggers the narrative towards the exploration of space and beyond: towards the mystery, the mythical and the ineffable. GABRIEL DOMÉNECH
BIOGRAPHY
Gústav Geir Bollason (b. 1966) studied at the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts (forerunner of the Icelandic University of the Arts) between 1986 and 1989, studied drawing for a year in Budapest (Hungary) and graduated with a DNSEP degree from the Art School of Cergy (France). Gústav's work takes the form of drawings, constructed objects, reworkings of found objects and cinematic works. He works equally with abstract presentation, recreation and parallels, and invents processes in which he contrasts different methods and themes. He explores places with history, traces of human habitation or collects objects that nature has rendered extravagant. Gústav's work has been shown in solo exhibitions as well as group exhibitions in Iceland and abroad (Paris, New York, San Francisco, to name a few). Gústav's latest feature film Carcass (2017) premiered in Rotterdam.
