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| ORIGINAL TITLE | Eins og við værum |
| DIRECTOR | Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir |
| PRODUCER | Dorothée Kirch, Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir |
| DOP | Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir |
| SCRIPT | Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir |
| MUSIC | Curver, Davíð Þór Jónsson |
| EDITOR | Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir |
| CO-PRODUCER | Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon |
| RELEASE | 2010 |
| LENGTH | 30 min |
| GENRE | Documentary |
| CAST | Ragnar Kjartansson |
The repetition and the circumstances increasingly take their toll when isolation, claustrophobia and paranoia set in. As if We Existed is an interpretation of an art piece by Ragnar Kjartansson who represented Iceland at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. His piece, The End, was a six month long performance.
Ragnheidur Gestsdóttir (b. 1975) graduated with an MA in Visual
Anthropology from Goldsmiths College in 2001. She has produced
programs about art and culture for television in Iceland and London
based DVD magazine Specialten. She has made some
documentaries about different visual artists and musicians, including
3 films about Icelandic singer Björk whom she´s worked with closely
over the last few years. She is co-editor and founder of Icelandic
DVD magazine Rafskinna and is currently working on a film about
Icelandic artist Hreinn Fridfinnsson and a feature length
documentary Vikings in the Wild West, a road movie about the fake
and the authentic amongst people of Nordic heritage in the US, coproduced
by Radiator Film in Denmark. She lives and works in New
York City.
www.asifweexisted.com
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