{"id":305,"date":"2016-06-19T15:18:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T12:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?p=305"},"modified":"2018-06-20T00:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T21:53:03","slug":"sun-19-6-morning-discussion-dagur-kari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/sun-19-6-morning-discussion-dagur-kari\/","title":{"rendered":"19.6. Morning Discussion With Dagur K\u00e1ri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Icelandic director <strong>Dagur K\u00e1ri<\/strong> was born in France\u2019s Provence, where his parents were studying. The family moved back to Iceland when K\u00e1ri was three years old. He describes his childhood as normal and middle class. \u201cAt times I have even felt jealous of my director colleagues who have been able to take inspiration from their childhood traumas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although K\u00e1ri saw a lot of, for example, Chaplin films in his childhood, the film that made a real impression on him was Kurosawa\u2019s <em>Dersu Uzala<\/em> (1975), which he saw with his father. Icelandic films were a rare treat at the cinemas and half the nation went to see them when such films were screened. The young K\u00e1ri was interested in drawing, writing, photography and music, but felt that he should concentrate on just one thing. At an Icelandic film festival he got the chance to see films by directors such as Wenders, Kaurism\u00e4ki and Jarmusch. \u201dIt was like a revolution for me. I discovered a tone that resonated heavenly in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cinema enabled K\u00e1ri to combine his various fields of interest. He studied film in Copenhagen \u2013 the two-year course was a kind of introduction to the world of cinema for him. For a film student \u201da film school can set up frames and give guidance, but the road to becoming an artist is unique for each individual\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>K\u00e1ri\u2019s debut feature<em> N\u00f3i Albiino<\/em> (2003) was shot in Iceland. He had amassed a lot of material concerning the main character even before he started studying film. \u201dHe was like an alter ego to me and I wanted to cut the ties with him. But not in order to forget about him.\u201d K\u00e1ri\u2019s relationship to N\u00f3i, and all his other characters, is very humanistic \u2013 he does not look down on them. His films are often born from characters, not from stories.<\/p>\n<p>While the script for <em>N\u00f3i Albiino<\/em> was developed in detail before filming began, <em>Dark Horse<\/em> (2005) was more improvised. \u201dI combined something that is very fixed with something very loose.\u201d Virgin Mountain got its start from a character once more, but it was also based around a certain actor. Already 20 years before, Gunnar J\u00f3nsson had made an impression on K\u00e1ri with his strong presence in a supporting role on a television series.<\/p>\n<p>K\u00e1ri had almost given up on filmmaking after his experience with shooting <em>The Good Heart<\/em> (2009) in The United States. The American system with its agents and other middlemen caused a down period of several years in the director\u2019s career. His first daughter was born and turned four years old before K\u00e1ri finally began filming again. He had returned to school to study composition, but returned to directing with <em>Virgin Mountain<\/em> (2015).<\/p>\n<p>Icelandic cinema is flourishing at the moment, but K\u00e1ri finds it hard to give just one reason for this. On a small island populated by few people, filmmaking, as well as maintaining a symphony orchestra, may seem insane: \u201dwe are fighting with the impossible but at the same time everything seems to be possible\u201d. There is a sense of creativity in the air.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to cinema, K\u00e1ri names soccer as another passion of his. To a desert island he would take with him Woody Allen\u2019s film <em>Play It again Sam<\/em> (1975).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Icelandic director Dagur K\u00e1ri was born in France\u2019s Provence, where his parents were studying. The family moved back to Iceland when K\u00e1ri was three years old. 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