Þorbjörg Jóns­dóttir

Thorbjorg Jonsdottir (b. 1979) is an experimental filmmaker and video artist from Iceland who holds an MFA in filmmaking from California Institute of the Arts and a BA Visual Arts from Iceland University of the Arts. Thorbjorg works mainly with experimental film and video media, in the forms of narrative film, documentary and video installation. Her films and videoworks navigate between ethnography and abstract formalism, explore preternatural states where oral-mythology and landscape collide. Thorbjorg’s films and video installations have been screened both in galleries and film festivals in Europe, Asia and the US, at venues including CPH:DOX, IMAGES festival, JEONJU Film Festival, FID Marseille and at LACMA.