Volaða Land/Vanskabte Land (Godland, Hlynur Pálmason, 2022)

Ástin Sem Eftir Er (The Love That Remains, Hlynur Pálmason, 2025)

At the start of Vanskabte Land, we are told that the film was inspired by a cache of nineteenth-century photographs and the travelling priest, Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), documents his journey across Iceland to establish a church with his glass plate camera. The source is invented – but the rounded corners of the Academy ratio film are signifiers of photography and unexpected as a means of showing the landscape.

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