Hugar HARPA nominated 2021
Hugar: Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson
2021 HARPA Nominees for their score for Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir (IS) ’The Vasulka Effect’
’The Vasulka Effect’, a feature film length documentary, is a classic fairytale but with some unusual twists: In the beginning the princess rescues the prince and the “heroic journey” is not linear on the normal time-scale. This is a story about a labour of love on a personal, creative, narrative and musical level.
The subjects, Steina and Woody, represent the classical and the avant-garde, artistry and craftmanship, the analogue and the digital and the music follows and embodies all those aspects. With their feet firmly planted in all those worlds the composers illustrate in a subtle and effective way the Vasulka’s enermous and mostly overlooked contribution to our modern world.
We have been become accustomed to the overlap of sound and vision but the music portrays the sine sine waves, the fast Fourier transforms, the characters, the historical context and the complex emotions in a unique and touching way befitting the subject. A labour of love that mirrors and enhances the protagonists, the sensitive and inventive direction and a timeless inspiring story.
Icelandic jury:
Hilmar Oddsson| film director
Margrét Örnólfsdóttir | screenwriter and composer
Pétur S. Jónsson | composer
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, composer
Nominee-film: Interview, kamera & edit by Blair Alexander