Reykjavík Grapevine - 08.04.2011, Side 17

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Apr
21
Apr
Dubliner
22:00 Live music
English Pub
22:00 Live music
4 |WED
Bakkus
20:30 Art Without Borders,
collaboration concert
Café Oliver
22:00 Pub Quiz
Den Danske Kro
22:00 Live Music
Dubliner
22:00 Live Music
English Pub
22:00 Human Jukebox with Raggi
Kaffitár Café
20:00 Tango Milango
5 |THu
Bar 11
22:00 Kreppa Night - DJ Matti
Café Oliver
22:00 Ingo Veðurguð
Den Danske Kro
20:00 Beer Bingo
22:00 Live Music
Dubliner
22:00 Live Music
English Pub
22:00 Maggi & Eiríkur
Esja
22:00 Loungy Thursday
Hressó
22:00 J.J.s Band
Thorvaldsen
20:00 Salsa Night
6 |FRI
OnGOInG
Restaurant Reykjavík
20:00 Let's Talk Iceland: Comedy Show.
2200 ISK. Everyday
Iðnó
Cellophane Comedy show
20:00 Thursdays
Reykjavík Gets Steamy with Blues Music
Hilton Reykjavík Nordica Hotel
8990 ISK for festival pass, 3.990-4.490 ISK per show
The frigid North Atlantic city of Reykjavík could not be any different than the birth-
place of blues music in the swampy, steamy state of Mississippi. Despite the odds,
the genre has made it all the way up here and is in full force with the annual Reyk-
javík Blues Festival. Musicians will come from Europe, Iceland and North America
and include Vasti Jackson and the Blue Ice band, Bo Halldórsson, Páll Rósinkranz
& The Blues Mafia all stars band, Ferlegheit, Klassart, Devil's Train, Marquise Knox,
and Stone Stones. Even some real live Mississippi blues musicians will be there.
So if you're looking for something different to do around Easter break and you like
smoking cigars and looking cool, then you should probably check out the Reykjavík
Blues Festival. VS
A new grassroots start-up is giving the
Icelandic film stars of tomorrow a place
to shine.
True, the post-crash Icelandic film
scene has suffered from slashed bud-
gets and fewer films are being funded.
However, a few badass filmmakers—Ar-
nar Sigurðsson, Ragnhildur Sig-
urðardóttir and Heimir Freyr Hlöðvers-
son—have founded a guerrilla response
to the post-crash Icelandic film scene, a
new film collective they call Klapp.
Klapp is “going back to what
matters,” says Arnar. Built on a co-op
model, with roughly 25 members and
growing, they’re nurturing the next
Icelandic film stars of tomorrow.
Last month, when they put out a
call for applicants they were met with
an overwhelming response and sent
out the chosen ten teams of young
filmmakers to hone their chops on the
streets of Reykjavík as part of the Klapp
Guerrilla Filmmaking Campaign.
Next, they’ll help these filmmakers
with post-production and get ready to
debut these creative, drama, dance and
documentary shorts this summer.
Klapp offers technical and creative
workshops, production support and
equipment to young filmmakers who
would otherwise work alone in their
apartments with friends. “We want to
function openly and democratically
with the maximum involvement of our
members,” says Arnar, sounding a bit
like a politician.
He groans, explaining that it has
always been hard to maintain a national
film industry in Iceland, even in the best
of years—especially with the recession,
scarcity of loose capital and slashed
public funding.
“The necessity for cinema to be in
a real dialogue with society is more
pressing than ever, so creative means
must be found if this art form wants to
be counted as of culture.”
Founded last summer in Reykjavík,
it all came about after organising a
script-writing workshop—which snow-
balled into a series of other events.
Familiar with the art of filmmaking,
the Klapp kids started sharing their
collection of film equipment among
themselves to dodge rental feels.
That turned into the guerrilla film-
making campaign in the fall (funded by
the Reykjavík municipality).
Klapp hosts semi-public events like
script writing workshops on Monday
nights, acting and directing work-
shops on Wednesday nights and “geek
weekends”, where sound, camera and
light techies gather with equipment on
everybody else’s days off.
The events are not advertised, but
if you’re interested in attending, email
them at: klapp@klapp.is.
You just may get your star moment,
or at least some applause.
- nadja Sayej
Give A Hand For
The Klapp Collective
Young filmmakers pull it together
Art | Start-up