Iceland
64′20″, 2020.
DIRECTED BY
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
PRODUCED BY
Jón Bjarki Magnússon, Hlín Ólafsdóttir, Andy Lawrence, Veronika Janatková
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EDITED BY
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
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A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on Icelandic shores for over seventy years. Her love of books is matched by his love of stones. When he bursts out singing, she begs him to stop screaming, when he tells her he wants to change his name to Elf she warns his family will abandon him. Now, as his one hundredth birthday nears and Trausti senses the hand of death upon him he is on a quest to find the coffin that can carry this elf back to the mysteries beyond... Meanwhile, Hulda retreats into a world of poetry with the help of an electric magnifying glass. Half Elf is a modern Icelandic fairy-tale, where life is celebrated – despite everything, despite ourselves and despite the reality that awaits all of us in the end.

Jón Bjarki Magnússon is a filmmaker with background in anthropology, journalism and poetry. He studiedcreative writing at the University of Iceland and received his MA in Visual and Media Anthropology fromFreie Universität, Berlin, in 2018. He is the founder of SKAK BÍÓFILM, a small Icelandic production company dedicated tomaking anthropological and artistic films.

HALF ELF (2020)- Official Trailer from SKAK bíófilm on Vimeo.