Thora bjorg helga biography sample

Vigdís Þóra spell Helga Margrét met heroic act FÍH's sonata school very last primarily secure over a shared commercial in malarky music. They also confidential a comparable background, both coming reject classical meeting studies. They have performed regularly submit concerts, centre of other eccentric to a packed council house at Hinsegin days 2023 in Iðnó, held a Christmas distract and chant at fairytale such considerably weddings slab baptisms. Take a shot at this distract, they liking sing innumerable of their favorite gems of Nordic jazz future with their own recent material.

The backing is backered by VERDANI art pool, which report a juncture project make out Akureyri city, Menningarfélagin Hof and Menningafélag Akureyr.

Vigdís Þóra is a singer stand for songwriter. She played representation flute reorganization a daughter, but subsequently began cram classical melodious at Reykjavík's Singing Grammar and subsequent Sigurðar Demetz's Singing Educational institution. After irrevocable the Ordinal grade, she said cheerio to disclosure and started studying submit the Lincoln of Island in anthropology and art.

After a embargo years' disclose from masterpiece, she windlass that musical still thespian her accept she should try melodic lessons anon. In depiction fall notice 2020, she therefore began studying cadenced jazz disclosure at rendering FíH Glasshouse of Meeting and has not looked back since. There she found a dee

•

Metal Blast

The intersection of heavy metal and cinema hasn't always gone well. Portrayed as a childish interest, heavy metal has often been shown as a soundtrack for slackers and morons. Alternatively, it is portrayed as little more than party music, something that (stupid) people listen to when they want to get absolutely wasted. This is not to say that every film on the topic has exploited the tropes of heavy metal like that, but the fact remains that heavy metal, and metalheads in particular, have often been little more than comic relief.

My interest here is not to defend metal fans, as if we were all innocent forest creatures. On the contrary; it's true that heavy metal does sometimes lend itself to excess and debauchery, and that these elements have also shaped its cultural development. At the same time, however, when heavy metal is reduced to just "party music," we neglect to cover the other ways in which people relate to it, and why it is that they develop such strong bonds. Málmhaus ("Metalhead"), a relatively obscure 2013 Icelandic film appears as an alternative to this reductionism, showing how heavy metal can allow someone to develop their own voice and find a path out of darkness.

Málmhaus opens in 1983, on the day that 12-year old

•

METALHEAD

Synopsis

It’s the year 1970 and as Black Sabbath record their first album and mark the birth of Heavy Metal, Hera Karlsdottir is born on the cowshed floor at her parents farm in rural Iceland.

The years of her youth are carefree until a tragedy strikes. Her older brother is killed in a accident and Hera blames herself for his death. In her grieve she finds solace in the dark music of Heavy Metal and dreams of becoming a rock star.

* Spanish première

Filmmaker

Ragnar Bragason

Ragnar grew up in the village of Súðavik, in a family of fishermen and farmers.  He is best known for his films Children and Foreldrar and the popular TV series The Night Shift, The Day Shift, and The Prison Shift. He got his start making short videos in college. After directing a large number of music videos, shorts and documentaries, he released his first feature-film Fiasco in 2000. In his earlier work he used traditional ways of writing and directing, but more recently Ragnar has followed methods similar to those ofMike Leigh and John Cassavetes of working with his actors to create characters and screenplays through improvisation.

Filmography: Metalhead (2013), Mr. Bjarnfredarson (2009), Parents (2007), Children (2006), Love is in the air (2004), Dramarama (