Dreamland is now available on DVD. The film includes english voiceover and subtitles. The DVD includes 30 minute bonus material – Jökla – in Memoriam – a flight over landscape that is now mostly lost to the Karahnjukar dam and Alcoa aluminum smelter. You can order the film here. Dreamland will be screened in the next weeks in Norway, Göteborg film festival in Sweden, Bryggen in Copenhagen, Docpoint Helsinki, Docpoint Estonia and in Canada by Cinema Politica. “This is one of the best environmental films ever made.” www.cinemapolitica.org
Dreamland has been published in Danish by Tiderne Skifter. Here you can see an interview (in English) in the news program Deadline. Dreamland has has also been published in Japan by NHK and the DVD is now available here. Here is more information in Danish about the book – from Tiderne Skifter website:
Hvad sker der på Island? Først et sandt økonomisk mirakel, så det totale krak. Der er vist noget råddent i det islandske samfund!
Here you can listen to an interview and a poem, by Andri Snær Magnason on Melting Point. As BBC tells us: A feature by Nina Perry exploring the environmental, cultural and musical significance of the icy landscapes of Greenland, Iceland and the Highlands of Scotland. Featuring the words of an Icelandic writer, a Greenlandic fisherman, a drama therapist and an ice-climbing fiddle-playing mountain rescuer interwoven with spectacular recordings of the ice sheet as it calves and a specially composed musical soundscape.
Broadcast on: BBC Radio 3, 9:30pm Saturday 21st November 2009. Duration: 30 minutes. Available online until: 10:02pm Saturday 28th November 2009.
Dreamland by Andri Snær Magnason and Thorfinnur Gudnason will be premiered in IDFA Amsterdam the 24th of November. Dreamland will compete in the main competition of IDFA in the category of feature length documentaries. IDFA is one of the largest documentary festivals in the world. Andri Snær and Thorfinnur will answer questions after the show. Screenings information and film trailer can be seen here.
Andri Snær Magnason is one of the people interviewed in a new radio documentary on BBC 3 by Nina Perry:
A feature by Nina Perry exploring the environmental, cultural and musical significance of the icy landscapes of Greenland, Iceland and the Highlands of Scotland. Featuring the words of an Icelandic writer, a Greenlandic fisherman, a drama therapist and an ice-climbing fiddle-playing mountain rescuer interwoven with spectacular recordings of the ice sheet as it calves and a specially composed musical soundscape.
My newest publication – Rethinking Dreamland – is now to be found the debate forum RETHINK SOCIALITY.
RETHINK is an art project that thematizes climate changes through Nordic and international contemporary art. The project is part of the official cultural programe for COP15 in Copenhagen. REFLECT is RETHINK’s online forum where debaters from the all over the world engage in debates on climate change, art and culture. The writers are artists, philosophers, scientists, politicians and business people with different views and knowledge about how climate change affects the way we live and view the world.
REFLECT presents a broader cultural debate on the consequences of climate change. Climate change is fundamentally interdisciplinary, transcends borders and interfaces with many domains including politics, art, technology, nature, sociality, philosophy etc. The debaters explore how climate change leads to new understandings and definitions of some of these established domains, and how they interfere with one and another. They share their views on the dilemmas confronting our society today.
Now you can see Dreamland in Reykjavik at the Nordisk Panorama short film and documentary festival. It will be in Regnboginn (Rainbow) theater saturday september 26th at 10 AM and Sunday at 6 PM. Here are the films in the competition: Here is the link to Nordisk Panorama:
Here below is the list of films competing for the prize of Best Nordic Documentary at Nordisk Panorama 2009 in Reykjavik.
Imagine seeing a tourist promotional video. A beautiful fjord, magnificent Peer Gynt by Grieg soundtrack and you see the slogan: “The worlds most beautiful adventure”. Then you go to Stavanger in Norway – and you take the cruise with Rodne Cruises and they try to recreate exactly the tourist promotional experience – with soundtrack and everything. You get exactly what you payed for – by blasting Grieg – the tourist promotional ad has been “recreated” in reality – it becomes more than reality and better. They totally meet your expectations.
In one of my favorite books, Travels in Hyperreality, Umberto Eco travels through the hyperreality of American Tourist destinations. He describes how reality is recreated in museums, theme parks and the Disneylands of America. How they constantly meet your expectations by creating destinations that are better than art, better than history, more natural than nature. You can see the Venus de Milo, with arms and everything. This also applies to the largest pyramid in the world – it’s in Las Vegas. The goal of the architect was simple – if you have been in the Las Vegas pyramid, you will be disappointed by the pyramids of Egypt. They will be smaller, less “real”. This video is the Norwegian version of Hyperreality. It is not enough to be actually in “The worlds most beautiful adventure”. You must be stimulated even more – by blasting Greig at 200 decibels – they give you the true Norwegian Fjord experience – the most beautiful moment of your lifetime.
