End of Summer

Shot on black and white super 8 film, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s ”End of Summer” is a hypnotic and slow-burning reveal through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Filmed as a series of mostly static tableaux over a period of 20 days during the waning days of the Antarctic Summer, the film is a startling look at life at the edge of the world. The film is informed by American theorist Timothy Morton´s idea of ”dark ecology” - in which the old ideas of nature as an object of beauty and human prerogative is disputed. Without narration and with a soundtrack that blends cello and vocals with Jóhann’s field recordings from the voyage, the film maps and explores the terrain of an increasingly fragile region.

Director: Jóhann Jóhannsson, IS/DK, 2015, 29’

Attention: Director Jóhann Jóhannsson has been taken ill and won't be present to give an introduction on Sat. Nov. 7