Impressions from the Reykjavík Music Mess 2013.
When they finished shooting the scene, Guðmundur realised that they had something special, and what began as a small experiment spiralled into a fifteen-minute short fiction. On May 25, the resulting film titled “Whale Valley” makes its debut as one of nine short films at Cannes Film Festival in France.
t’s a cold world out there. No one knows that better than the documentary filmmaker, whose job it is to portray that world, in all of its gruesome glory, to the public.
By the time I finally set foot in Reykjavík, I had been traveling for about 24 hours and was running off of a disappointing oatmeal and a Payday bar. My main fuel throughout the trip had been the knowledge that I was on my way to Iceland.