It’s not just the films that make RIFF an international film festival. Every year tens of interns and hundreds of volunteers from all across the globe coalesce at the RIFF headquarters in downtown Reykjavík.
All in The Reykjavík Grapevine
It’s not just the films that make RIFF an international film festival. Every year tens of interns and hundreds of volunteers from all across the globe coalesce at the RIFF headquarters in downtown Reykjavík.
Graphic Designers Loki Björnsson and Elsa Jónsdóttir's new typeface display: the exhibit opens on September 30 and features nine fonts developed over the past two years.
When I told the waitress that I was looking for something interesting to do in Þorlákshöfn, she expressed condolences. It’s not exactly the reaction one hopes for when writing a piece about a town.
With a title like ‘Yarn: The Movie’, it is not difficult to discern what Compass Films’ latest documentary is going to be about. So let’s start with what it is not about.
“In a Late Night with Conan O’Brien interview, our own musical sweetheart Björk described the Icelandic music scene perfectly – a bunch of isolated people hearing the music coming from abroad and misunderstanding it in a beautiful way.”
Cycles and Stillness with sculptors Eva Ísleifsdóttir and Sindri Leifsson
The sky is overcast, there is a couple smoking cigarettes on the front step that I squeeze by, a cat crosses the road. There’s nothing to pull me out of my workday daze. That is, until I round the corner to Pósthússtræti
Read about what you read about. As soon as “cukoo’s nest reykjavík grapewine” shows up on the list (with 64 searches, note: that is 64 separate times that those exact words were typed into Google and led one to grapevine.is.) the screws begin to loosen.
When ‘all the lights have gone out’ we will be left with our stories. At least we can keep doing that when we make our way to the end,” Sjón says near the edge of our conversation.
Axel Björnsson pushes into the Grapevine office at 2:00am and chomps the triangle tip off of a slice of pizza out of our editor’s palm. His body swirls as he tries to stand still.