Artist‘s moving image: Cinema

At the museum's autumn conference cinema night, films by a diverse group of artists such as Joshua Reiman, Ásta Fanneyja Sigurðardóttir, Hulda Rós Guðnadóttur and Anna María Bogadóttir will be screened at Hafnarhús.

Malbygg brewery will have a pop-up bar on the 2nd floor of the building.

17h10: A Brief Inquiry, 2010 by Joshua Reiman

A Brief Inquiry is a film about the sublime and its use in our everyday vernacular. Since the world has already been discovered, an explorer goes off to find the only thing that is left, an emotion called “the sublime”. The film’s voiceover is rich in theory and hysterical commentary describing the overuse and misunderstanding of the word "sublime" while visually driven by an ongoing quest for an overwhelming natural experience.

17h30: Labor Move, 2016 by Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir

In Labor Move we see dockworkers performing specifically for the camera, based on movements they have become accustomed to over a long period of time. The same movements are repeated, they throw heavy boxes from one place to another with considerable coordination and skill. 

18h10: Konni, 2022 by Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir and Lee Lorenzo Lynch.

An intimate 16mm portrait that documents a day in the life of Konni, the last child inhabitant on a remote island in the arctic circle that boasts a population of only 16 people.
North of Iceland lies the island of Grímsey. Straddled by the arctic circle, it is the northernmost inhabited part of the country. The island measures 5.3 square kilometers and is a 3 ½ hour ferry ride from the mainland. The year-round population is only 16 people. Currently only one child lives on the Island, a 6 year old boy named Konni.

18h25: Munnhola, obol ombra houp-là (a series of performances) 2021 by Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir

Munnhola, obol ombra houp-là (a series of performances) by artist and poet Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir (b. 1987) is a collection of performances where sounds, poems, phonics, tones, letters, words and wordless scenes form together a surreal dream world of perception. In the work, the voice is explored as a unique medium and acts as a thread through a journey of symbols, letters and human connection to nature, language, technology, games and entertainment. Premiered at Sequences X: Time Has Come.

19h00: Tinwoodsman's Home Movie #2 by Lee Lorenzo Lynch.

Directed by Lee Lynch and Naomi Uman. "A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve."

19h15: Interment (part) 2021 by Anna María Bogadóttir

Built for a sleek and secure future the iconic Bank of Industries, was erected in downtown Reykjavík in the 1960s. Fifty years later, we step inside the building and witness its geometrical and material dissolution before the backdrop of everyday life. Through a visual narrative of building materials returned to the earth, we face the interplay between humanity, machines, and the elements. It's an end of a building and the end of a bank. An interment of a building corpse at the end of the age of disposable building culture.