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Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson is an Icelandic performance artist. He engages in multiple artistic mediums throughout his performative practice. Like video installations, performances, drawings, and paintings incorporate the history of film, music, visual culture, and literature.

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Movies Made By Ragnar Kjartansson (10)

No Tomorrow (2022)

No Tomorrow is a new video installation by Kjartansson, choreographer Margrét Bjarnadóttir, and composer Bryce Dessner. Spanning six screens that encircle the room, the installation surrounds viewers with a performance of spatial music written for eight ...

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Death is Elsewhere (2019)

In this seven-channel video installation, two pairs of identical twin musicians circle each other, playing the same endless song. ...

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A Lot of Sorrow (2013)

Icelandic artist and musician Ragnar Kjartansson's often intensely durational performance-based works manifest a rare synthesis of pathos and humor. A Lot of Sorrow is both a music video and an extended concert film, in which Brooklyn-based band the Nation ...

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Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment (2013)

Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's album Valtari. The idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utm ...

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The Visitors (2012)

A celebration of creativity, community, and friendship, The Visitors (2012) documents a 64-minute durational performance Kjartansson staged with some of his closest friends at the romantically dilapidated Rokeby Farm in upstate New York. Each of the nine c ...

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The Man (2010)

Ragnar Kjartansson meets with American blues musician Pinetop Perkins in a field near Pinetop's home in Austin, Texas. Ragnar films Pinetop in the sunset, as he plays a piano and reminisces about his life and career. ...

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Mercy (2005)

The video Mercy (2005) presents an alt-country ode consisting of a single lyric — "Oh why do I keep on hurting you" — which Kjartansson, standing alone with a guitar, sings over and over in front of the camera like an actor perfecting his role. Now pla ...

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Satan Is Real (2004)

Kjartansson appears bare-chested and buried waist-deep in a Reykjavik public park. Strumming a guitar, he plaintively sings the line—"Satan is real; he's working for me"—repeatedly for 64 minutes. As he does so, children frolic around him. ...

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Death and the Children (2002)

Single-channel video, 4' 54" ...

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Movies Starring Ragnar Kjartansson (6)

I'll Be Your Mirror (2024)

Widow Chloe travels to Japan for work where she is welcomed by an old friend, Toshi. Sliding between the melancholy of loss and the awe of perspectives changed, Chloe wanders an unfamiliar landscape where love has carved all the guiding grooves. ...

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A Lot of Sorrow (2013)

Icelandic artist and musician Ragnar Kjartansson's often intensely durational performance-based works manifest a rare synthesis of pathos and humor. A Lot of Sorrow is both a music video and an extended concert film, in which Brooklyn-based band the Nation ...

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The Visitors (2012)

A celebration of creativity, community, and friendship, The Visitors (2012) documents a 64-minute durational performance Kjartansson staged with some of his closest friends at the romantically dilapidated Rokeby Farm in upstate New York. Each of the nine c ...

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The Medúlla Videos (2005)

Music videos for the album Medúlla. The medúlla videos. A documentary about the making of the "Triumph of a Heart" music video is also included as a bonus feature. Partially a mockumentary, the feature focuses on the auditions for the bar patrons who ha ...

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Satan Is Real (2004)

Kjartansson appears bare-chested and buried waist-deep in a Reykjavik public park. Strumming a guitar, he plaintively sings the line—"Satan is real; he's working for me"—repeatedly for 64 minutes. As he does so, children frolic around him. ...

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Death and the Children (2002)

Single-channel video, 4' 54" ...

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