In French, ‘jour’ means ‘day’ and ‘jour’
means aperture: a slit that lets in daylight.
‘ney’, the final part of the word ‘journey’, means ‘consolation’ in Hebrew, or ‘huggun’ in Icelandic. When we are going through a difficult process, we can find some comfort with each passing day on our journey.
The journey is just getting started. “Rétt að byrja “.
Im Durchschreiten eines schwierigen Prozesses kann jeder Tag, der verstreicht, etwas Trost spenden.
“Out of the darkness, a shadow of a woman appears in the light of my consciousness. She walks around inquisitively and suddenly her speed is interrupted; she collides with an obstacle. Her astonishment that follows, matches my own. What is happening? What is she doing? What is stopping her? Is she fighting a battle? If so, what is it about?
Video works that show us a symbolic act of a character carry a particular paradox within them: the more minimal the act that appears on screen is in itself, the richer and more multifaceted its meaning appears to be. After all, simplicity or abstraction offers us as viewers the space to lavishly project our own thoughts and feelings onto what we observe. In other words, the minimal nature of the action we see prevents the story we might ascribe to it from already being too filled in by concrete clues.
And so a work forces itself on us, challenges us as viewers to go and discover a mirror of our own existence. Because what we think we see also inevitably starts with what we know and what concerns us. This is also often what gives art its sense of purpose: the meanings it brings to life for us.”
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- Titel: JOURney
- Director//Regie: Helena Jonsdottir
- Country of Production//Land: Iceland
- Year of Production//Jahr: 2022
- Duration//Dauer: 00:03:51
- Dance and Performance//Tanz: Laufey Elíasdóttir
- Camera//Kamera: Dagur Benedikt Reynisson
- Montage: HJ
- Sound//Ton: Daniele Moog Girolamo, Magnus Bergsson
- Lighting Design//Licht: Dagur Benedikt Reynisson
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- Trailer:
- Language//Sprache: without spoken language // ohne gesprochene Sprache
- Trigger//Inhaltshinweise: The film addresses topics of grief, depression and isolation.Der Film thematisiert Trauer, Depression und Isolation.