Thorbjorg Jonsdottir

Thorbjorg Jonsdottir

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Thorbjorg Jonsdottir is an experimental filmmaker from Iceland who holds an MFA degree in filmmaking from CalArts and a BA degree in visual arts from the Iceland University of the Arts. Her films navigate between ethnography and abstract formalism, exploring preternatural states where oral-mythology and landscape collide.

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Time Like Water 2013

Shot on 16mm film over the course of three years, this film documents hiking trips taken alone in the highlands of Iceland. The film explores the boundaries of individual and personal space, versus the open spaces of nature, which belong to no one.
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A Tree Is Like A Man 2019

A tree is like a man is an attempt to touch the otherworld through its edges. Shot on 16 mm in the Colombian Amazon, the film serves as personal witness to shaman Don William's lifetime relationship to Ayahuasca and other plant medicines that are native to the jungle. With the rainforest a rich labyrinthine background, this portrait is at once intimate and spare, opening up to alternate realities as dense as the jungle itself, with kaleidoscopic multiplicities in both the natural and the spiritual realms.
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Buffalo 2006

Buffalo consists of a few handheld, almost still shots, that bring up questions concerning the border of reality and fiction, presence and past in memory reconstructed.