Reykjavík Grapevine - 18.05.2012, Side 43

19 SAT
Austur
22.00 DJ Danni Deluxe
B5
22.00 DJ Simon
Bakkus
22:00 DJ KGB
Café Rósenberg
21:00 Live Music
Faktorý
23.00 Retro Stefson
Frú Berglaug
16.00 Reykjavik Live Festival
Gamli Gaukurinn
18:00 Elín Helena
19:00 Why Not Jack
20:00 Mont
21:00 The Wicked Strangers
22:00 The Crystalline Enigma
23:00 Alchemia
00:00 Trust The Flies
01:00 Plastic Gods
02:00 Brain Police
Glaumbar
22:00 DJ Margeir
Græni Hatturinn
21:00 Kiriyama Family
Harpa Concert Hall
14:00 Family concert - Maximus
Saves the Ballet
Hemmi og Valdi
22:00 Yoda Remote
Prikið
22:00 Emmsjé Gauti
22:30 Berndsen & Hermigervill
23:30 Diddi Fel
00:00 Hunk Of A Man (Maggi
Lego)
20 SuN
Esja
22:00 DJ Hlynur
Gaukurinn
18:00 Alan
19:00 Heima World
20:00 Myrra Rós
21:00 The Saints of Boogie
Street: Leonard Cohen Tribute
Band
22:00 Svartur á leik (movie)
Glaumbar
22:00 Svartur á leik (movie)
Prikið
22:00 Svartur á leik (movie)
21 MON
Café Rósenberg
21.00 Pub Quiz
Prikið
22:00 DJ The Third
22 TuE
Café Rósenberg
21:00 Live Music
Danske Kro
21:00 Live Music & Beer Bingo Night
Prikið
22:00 Eurovision Night & DJ Svenni
Skjaldborg VI: Iceland’s Premiere
Documentary Film Festival Returns
Patreksfjörður
May 27-29
Free
"My favourite moment at Skjaldborg was at an after party,” Gunnar Þorri Pétursson
shares on the film festival’s website. “It was deep into the night and silence was
descending, but then Huldar Breiðfjörð [Icelandic novelist and filmmaker] says: ‘He
has started the show.’ And we all turn around and see that the sun is coming up
again.”
At the end of May, for the sixth year in a row, the Skjaldborg Documentary Film
Festival will set up in Patreksfjörður, a small town in the Westfjords. The full sched-
ule wasn't ready when The Grapevine went to print, but we got advance word on
seven films. Last year's winning director, Steinþór Birgisson, returns as a producer
and co-screenwriter with ‘Reimt á Kili’ (“Haunted Trails”), a story about two brothers
and their death, which has been debated for over 200 years.
Then the theme of last year's winning film, ‘A Rural Priest,’ returns in another
film: Grímur Hákonarson's 'Hreint hjarta’ (“Clean Heart”). This time the priest works
in Selfoss and the surrounding areas, and the film focuses on the less visible work
that the priest does. It also deals with the priest's personal demons.
In what seems to be the Icelandic version of 'Bigger Stronger Faster', there will
be a film called ‘Hrikalegir’ (“Steve Gym”), telling the tale of Iceland's oldest body-
building fitness centre, which has been active for four decades. We get to know
bodybuilders that were once famous, but are now forgotten, and we get a peek into
a world of muscles that is hidden to most.
Director/guitarist Loji brings us ‘Ljóðræn heimildamynd’ (“A Poetic Documen-
tary”). Yes, that's the title, not just a description, and it documents a year in the life
of his band Sudden Weather Change.
Then there are ‘Fjallkonan Hrópar á Vægð’ (“Cry for Mercy”), about the struggle
to keep Icelandic fields green, and ‘Líf og sjóðir’ (“Life and Funds”), a film about the
history of Icelandic pension funds. The latter may not sound terribly interesting until
you consider all the scandals those pension funds were part of during the crash, so
maybe there’s more to this film than meets the eye.
There are certainly more films to come. Last year, films were shown from morn-
ing to evening for two whole days. This means the schedule can be quite hectic, not
to mention there are after-parties to attend and short trips to take around the area.
You can read more about last year’s festival on the Grapevine website, but I’ll say it
was one of the best weekends of my last year. So go enjoy a weekend of interesting
films, good people and the unpredictability of the Icelandic summer.
And for the first time the festival will be truly accessible to foreigners who don't
understand Icelandic too well, since all the films will be shown with English sub-
titles. -Ásgeir H. Ingólfsson
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