JUST LIKE A PAINTING BY EGGERT PÉTURSSON (2020)
Interviewees
Hulda Hjartardóttir
Obstetrician and wife to Eggert
Ingólfur Arnarsson
Artist, painter
Edda Jónsdóttir
Founder of i8 gallery
Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir
Professor of Botany at University of Iceland
Börkur Arnarson
Owner of i8 gallery
Ólöf K Sigurðardóttir
Director of Reykjavík Art Museum
Eggert Pétursson
Visual artist
Ilona Anhava
Founder of Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
Jyrki Siukonen
Visual artist and friend of Eggert
Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson (2020)
EGGERT PÉTURSSON | A CONCEPT ARTIST AND FLOWER PAINTER
Log line
Eggert Pétursson, flower painter and concept artist, and Thóra Ellen Thórhallsdóttir, botanist, connect the dots between our experience of Icelandic nature and the floral diversity of Eggert’s flower paintings.
Synopsis
JUST LIKE A PAINTING BY EGGERT PÉTURSSON is a documentary on the painter Eggert Pétursson. In moraines near Skaftafell Glacier and close to the Arctic Circle at Trollaskagi peninsula we discover the film’s dynamic cornerstone on our trip through the Highlands. Our guide is botanist Thóra Ellen Thórhallsdóttir, who connects the dots between our experience of Icelandic nature and the floral diversity of Eggert’s flower paintings.
Eggert is a conceptual artist with a realistic vision of form and structure, but the imagination is tied to interpretation and his sense of painting. From his book of sketches, surrounded by a musical ode to Mother Nature, the flora’s perseverance and complexity match the world of the painting while emphasizing the coexistence of these two worlds.
Basic information
Title:
Eins og málverk eftir Eggert Pétursson
Title:
Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson
Genre:
Heimildarkvikmynd
Language:
Íslenska/enska/finnska
Director:
Gunnlaugur Þór Pálsson
Producers:
Gunnlaugur Þór Pálsson & Ólafur Rögnvaldsson
Script:
Gunnlaugur Þór Pálsson & Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir
Producer:
Sjónhending ehf
Co-Procucer:
Loftslagssjóður & Kvískerjasjóður
Director of Photography:
Ólafur Rögnvaldsson
Editor:
Anna Þóra Steinþórsdóttir
Music:
Atli Örvarsson & Sindri Már Sigfússon (Sin Fang)
Production Company:
Sjónhending ehf
Co-Production Company:
Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands & Axfilms ehf
Sound design
Gunnar Árnason
Sales and distribution company abroad:
Sjónhending
Domestic sales and distribution company:
Sjónhending
Sound:
Stereo (Surround 5.1)
Length:
00:52:52:00
Recording format:
ProRes 4K 4.4.2 HQ
Projecting format:
DCP 25
Projecting screening ratio:
16:9 (1:2,39)
Premiere:
15.03.2020 Stockfish Film Festival
Country of production:
Ísland
Tagline, one sentence in Icelandic and English:
EGGERT PÉTURSSON, HUGMYNDALISTAMAÐUR OG BLÓMAMÁLARI.
EGGERT PÉTURSSON, A CONCEPT ARTIST AND FLOWER PAINTER.