Benedikt erlingsson biography sampler

We all know that the environment is fucked, but how much do we as individuals fight to curb its impending derailment?

This sampling of two films released decades apart allows the authors to contrast the filmmakers' varying ecocritical investments and depictions.

10 questions for director benedikt erlingsson.

In the spotlight at the Cannes film festival, this feminist-sustainable tale follows the daily life of Hallah, an Icelandic woman ready to risk.

The podcast Kvikmyndapod is hosted by Rob Watts and Ellie Cawthorne.

Benedikt Erlingsson was born on in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The central figure at the heart of actor-turned-filmmaker Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War does more than her share. This earth mother is simply a badass.

When we first meet Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir), she’s dexterously using a bow and arrow to short-circuit a rural power line, causing a blackout that temporarily shuts down a nearby aluminum factory.

Pursued by the police all the way to her picturesque home in Iceland’s Reykjavik, Halla quickly slips back into her surface routine as a mild-mannered, fortysomething choir director, riding around on her bicycle, practicing tai chi, and adorning her walls with portraits of Ghandi and Mandela.

We’re to believe that the covert eco-superhero has been running a one-woman resistance against the encroaching aluminum industry for some time now. For the Icelandic authorities—wary that a deal with China might go south