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Credits:
A collaboration of F.D. Cristian, Josie Foster, Peter Bill, Elma Dรถgg Steingrรญmsdรณttir, Bruno Granato, Kristinn Hallur Jรณnsson, Gunni Krisjรกns and รsa Helga HjรถrleifsdรณttirPrincipal Directing by Josie Foster, F.D. Cristian and Peter Bill
Production Maestra: Elma Dรถgg Steingrรญmsdรณttir
Editing by F.D.Cristian, Peter Bill, Josie Foster and Elma Dรถgg Steingrรญmsdรณttir
Calligraphy Titles & Isola Fish by Oonaugh Foster-BillProduced by Isola Films for Mรบm and Morr Music
Directors commented:
The concept for the video evolved from a photo shoot the band did in Hรณlavallagarรฐur, and we thought we would try to build a sort of otherworldly feel out of it. We had initially thought to base it on a ghost murder story theme from Morรฐin รก Sjรถundรก, but laying all of that into a five minute sequence was too much of a play-act.
The main idea that emerged from our initial discussion at Frรญkirkjan was that Samuli (the drummer) should be naked and covered in dirt, and we had to shoot him alone since he was flying to Finland the following day. So we shot what we called the โelemental manโ scenes with him on that cold November day in the graveyard, we did it quietly and kept him out of sight for the most part, as we wanted to be ultra-cautious in order to respect the surroundings.
We decided impromptu to shoot the โelemental womanโ (Gyรฐa) out at Nesjavallaleiรฐ the following day, and we hadnโt appreciated just how bitter cold it was going to be out there. And the urban scenes were shot at the prototypical home of a Reykjavรญk City council member. Essentially what we ended up with was a man and a woman each caught in a netherworld, each seeking warmth, surrounding an urban interior scene of people who are a little bored, distracted and maybe looking for some meaning in stories and music.
Our directors have mostly film backgrounds and built in lots of layers of obscure literary and film allusions (Vertigo, Persona, the books, etc). But like life, in the end itโs just kind of random, has only the meaning you ascribe to it, and it all gets washed away in the end.
-F.D. Cristian and Elma Dรถgg Steingrรญmsdรณttir
