Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon
Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon (born 30 March 1968); sometimes credited as Ari Magnusson, is an Icelandic film director and producer.
Biography[edit]
Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon was born in 1968 in Reykjavik, Iceland, to an Icelandic father who was a playwright, film and theatre director and a Siberian-Yakutian mother who is an actress and visual artist. Magnusson´s mother graduated from the acting school GITIS in Moscow and his father graduated from the legendary film school VGIK where his parents actually first met. They moved to Reykjavik, Iceland from Moscow in 1966 after his father lost faith in the utopian dream of the USSR.[1]
Magnússon lived in Aarhus, Danmark 1979-83. He moved to Paris in 1989, studied at the Sorbonne University 1989-90. He earned a BFA in fine arts from Parsons Paris School of Art and Design, 1991-96. Since then he has exhibited his paintings, installations and video work in galleries in Iceland, Danmark, France, England, USA, China, Argentina, Russia and Siberia.
Magnusson has received several awards and was nominated to the Nordic Council Film Prize in 2005 for his music documentary Screaming Masterpiece, led by Björk and Sigur Rós.[2][3]
Magnússon premierd his first narrative feature film MIHKEL, at the 2018 Busan International Film Festival in South-Korea, in competion at the Warsaw International Film Festival in Poland, cinema release in Estonia and Iceland same year. It´s a dramatic film based on a real-life tragedy that took place in Iceland in 2004, involving two childhood friends from Estonia. The film was produced by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Evil Doghouse, Amrion Production and Truenorth with full production support from KMÍ the Icelandic film Centre and development support MEDIA Programme of the European Union.[4][5]
Ergis Film Production, owned by Ari Magnusson, was established in 2002. The company’s focus has been on documentaries, mostly on artists, and the company has been involved with major working artists: Björk, Erró, Sigur Rós, Gudbergur Bergsson, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Ólafur Elíasson, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Alain Robbe Grillet, David Lynch, Kristján Gudmundsson, Matthew Barney and Yoko Ono. Magnusson has worked closely with a team of experienced professionals: producer and film director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Los Angeles based film producer Sigurjón Sighvatsson, writer Jón Proppé and co-director of the Serpentine Galley in London, Hans Ulrich Obrist.[6][7][8][9][10][11][11][12]
Other activities[edit]
Magnússon is a former artistic director of Gallery GAMMA, artistic adviser to ALVOGEN, Reykjavik Art Festival, The French Embassy in Iceland, The Russian Embassy vin Iceland, curators, museums directors, gallery owners and private art collectors.[13]
Magnusson has also been involved in other peoples film scripts and co-produced several films, e.g. with the artist Ragnar Kjartansson during his show THE END at Venice Biennale 2009, the life of the artist Birgir Andrésson, BLIND DOG and in juries of international film festivals.[14]
References[edit]
- ↑ ""Upphaf einhvers stærra" segir Ari Alexander Ja". www.mbl.is.
- ↑ "Dís tilnefnd til Norrænu kvikmyndaverðlaunanna". www.mbl.is.
- ↑ "sigur rós - screaming masterpiece in l.a." sigur rós. October 25, 2005.
- ↑ "Review: Mihkel". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema.
- ↑ "Ari Alexander var með líkfundarmálið í maganum í fjórtán ár". October 3, 2018.
- ↑ Lee, Maggie; Lee, Maggie (January 1, 2012). "60 Seconds of Solitude in the Year Zero: Film Review".
- ↑ "KVIFF | Screaming Masterpiece". www.kviff.com.
- ↑ "Sterkar tilfinningar á Syndum feðranna - Vísir". visir.is.
- ↑ "Orðið tónlist: Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson". Kvikmyndavefurinn.
- ↑ "Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon". Icelandic Films.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Landamæralaus heimur". www.mbl.is.
- ↑ ""Hefur allt sem til þarf í myndlist"". www.mbl.is.
- ↑ "Eva Ísleifs, Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir og Rakel McMahon". gallerygamma.is.
- ↑ "As If We Existed". Icelandic Films.
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