Bjarni Felix Bjarnason

Movies

Resonance
Director of Photography
Unique artist couple, Helena and Thorvaldur truly nourished each other’s creative spirit. Helena’s journey since Thorvaldur’s passing seven years ago has been one of finding a new meaning to life and new motives to continue her artistic ambitions whilst securing a path for her late husband’s legacy.
Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic
Camera Operator
Comedian Ari Eldjárn pokes fun at Nordic rivalries, Hollywood’s take on Thor, the whims of toddlers and more.
The Seer and the Unseen
Additional Camera
A magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a real life Lorax who speaks on behalf of nature under threat.
Malevolent
Director of Photography
A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.
Poor Iceland
Director of Photography
When the Icelandic banks collapsed in the autum of 2008, taking most of the economy down with them, Ari Alexander took his camera and started to film what was happening in this tiny but relatively stable and affluent society. He filmed the ever-larger protests that in the end led to the downfall of the government. He took interviews with people shocked and confused by what was going on around them. He went to conferences and seminars where scholars tired to work out what had happened and what should happen next. He followed the endless debates and negotiations around the Icesave-accounts set up by Icelandic banks abroad. Every day brought fresh news of the complicated and often illegal deals made by financiers and bankers in the years leading up to the collapse.
Patient Seven
Director of Photography
The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.
The Icelandic Króna
Director of Photography
The Icelandic króna is traded on markets against the US dollar, euro and yen even though Icelanders are just a few hundred thousand. It has lived to see deflation, depression and debate. But has it's century-long history come to an end? All you ever wanted to know about the world's smallest currency.
Kurteist fólk
Cinematography
A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.
Santa's Night Out
Cinematography
A festive horror short about a drunken Santa and his elf.
Iceland Food Center
Cinematography
This is the story about the first Icelandic business expansion in London in 1965. One with all the characteristics of other Icelandic businesses we've come to know in the past few years.
Mother Knows Best
Director of Photography
Nanna is a single mother in Reykjavík who lives with her twenty something son Gudni Geir. She is not in awe of any of his various girlfriends and seems determined to ruin all his relationships. When Gudni comes out to her, their relationship changes drastically.
Adequate Beings
Sound Engineer
An interwoven story of four characters in a small Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival where the pressures of free market economy and the modern age are phasing out old traditional values. Bjarni (50) and his mother Sigrún (78), Mundi (93) and young farmer Skjöldur (35) are represented in this lyrical insight into a community that stuggles with market middlemen that press down produce prices, leaving increasingly less profit for the farmers themselves and threatening the fundamentals of their existence. Despite these adversities the community refuses to throw in the towel.
Adequate Beings
Director of Photography
An interwoven story of four characters in a small Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival where the pressures of free market economy and the modern age are phasing out old traditional values. Bjarni (50) and his mother Sigrún (78), Mundi (93) and young farmer Skjöldur (35) are represented in this lyrical insight into a community that stuggles with market middlemen that press down produce prices, leaving increasingly less profit for the farmers themselves and threatening the fundamentals of their existence. Despite these adversities the community refuses to throw in the towel.
Imagine Peace
Camera Operator
Four years in the making, the film features interviews and footage never seen before, as well as older scenes of John and Yoko together, in private and performing in public. Yoko Ono talks about her and John Lennon’s love and life together, about the art they made together and their struggle for peace and justice, including the imaginative methods they used to get their message across: “Give peace a chance.” Lennon’s music provides an inspirational soundtrack to a story that that began more than forty years ago and is still unfolding. In 2007, when Yoko Ono dedicated the Imagine Peace Tower to John’s memory she added: “My love for you is forever.”
Burkina Faso 8600 km
Director of Photography
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Hallgrímur, maður eins og ég
Director of Photography
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Hallgrímur, maður eins og ég
Director
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Utopia
Camera Operator
A student in politics, Jón, is covering for his friend from school as an assistant in the kitchen of a remotely situated home for the disabled for one weekend. Strange working procedures at the home come to Jón´s attention. Disputes seem to be resolved by a secret voting and Jón thinks democracy is threatened. But all is not what it seems.
Circledrawers
Director of Photography
Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of tasks. Oleg, a special emissary has arrived at transmission central in Iceland to do the semi-centennial report on the efficiency of the Circledrawer system.
Náttúra Concert Featuring Björk and Sigur Rós
Camera Operator
Snow
Lighting Artist
A young boy wakes up to almost a dreamlike reality. He cannot find his parents. Then suddenly everything seems very wrong.
Snow
Director of Photography
A young boy wakes up to almost a dreamlike reality. He cannot find his parents. Then suddenly everything seems very wrong.
Fencing
Gaffer
The film follows a day in the life of a troubled elderly gentleman facing fear of death and visions of his late father who he gets mixed up with his favorite figure of fiction, Captain Ahab from Moby Dick. He has visions of rubber shoes in the sewer where he works leading him to think back on his childhood and the origins of his bizarre work of art for which he has sacrificed even his marriage. His masterpiece is a bizarre fence along a black beach which he tends to with tenderness but dreads to complete.
Burst
Gaffer
A couple shares an intimate moment in their bedroom. His attempts to arouse her go seriously wrong, resulting in a series of emotional, physical and hydrological explosions.
Rabbit Hole
Director of Photography
The Rabbit Hole is a surreal fable that features a young girl traveling through beautiful terrain full of strange and bizarre creatures.