SAGA SHOP - Haust I Fall 2019

Icelandair Stopover 37 just push for the film. When you have your own children, you can push even harder. She has always been very relaxed around the camera because she is used to me. I have always filmed and photographed a lot and we have made small video works together, so it was very natural for her. She really wanted to do it and we did some tests and came to the conclusion that we should definitely do this. So I kind of wrote it with her in mind. I also had him [Ingvar] in mind. Can you speak about working with Ingvar? My graduation film was called The Painter and he was the protagonist there, so I got to know him then. That was in 2013. Afterwards, I thought there were so many possibilities in his performance and I felt he was really physically interesting and very technical but at the same time really emotionally present, which I really liked. So we hit it off and really liked working together, and so after we comp- leted the project back in 2013, I told him that I was working on a project called A White, White Day , and I asked him if I could write it for him, and then we just started. So we have been talking about it ever since. Are you working on any other projects at the moment? I always work parallel on a couple of things. I really like when they are bouncing into each other and eating into each other because if one project really takes off, it sort of com- ments on the others and you become more critical of them. I feel like they are colla- borating or something like that and it’s really interesting. They make me doubt my material, and I like that. I like doubting and feeling un- ease, and I like that they eat into each other. A White, White Day was screened at Toronto International Film Festival in September, with public screenings launching in Iceland at the same time. Distribution rights have been sold to over 30 countries. Previous page: Hlynur Pálmason with his daughter Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir at Cannes. Photo by Tina Jøhnk Christensen. Right: Ingvar E. Sigurðsson and Ída Mekkín in their roles as Ingimundur and Salka in A White, White Day . Courtesy of Join Motion Pictures.