"Find" , 2008

af Hrafnkell Sigurdsson

The romantic idea of spending time alone in nature and finding a connection.

Every time I leave the city I feel that I find something that I didn't know that I had lost. It feels like finding a connection to something good and important.

therefor I use images of nature in my work, they represent that connection.

if that experience is one end of a spectrum, the other end for me is sitting in front of a computer for too long, downloading images for example.

"Find" is then an attempt to unite the two opposites together on some level.

its 50 seconds long and is repeated in a 8 minute loop, auto repeat on dvd.

The soundtrack has layers of industrial and natural sounds and is seen as a backdrop and a space to the images.

For this I have used about 1000 icelandic landscape images from the internet.

It is made in a similar way as "Search", 2007 for Netfilmmakers.

These two videos can be seen as a pair, the landscape and the body.