Hjörtur Svavarsson

Movies

The Twisted Life of Elva
Sound Designer
Everywhere Elva goes, people stare at her. And it´s no wonder, because she turns in circles, stamps her feet and twists her body in every other step. She is thirty years old and has the worst case of Tourette syndrome her doctor has ever seen. At the same time she has excessive amounts of wit and humour, and constantly makes fun of herself. This documentary is made at the point where Elva has reached her limit. Her ticks have grown so powerful she can no longer take care of herself and her little son. Her last chance is a risky brain surgery where electrodes are planted deep in her brain, an operation which is still in the experimental phase for Tourette´s.
Iceland Food Center
Sound Editor
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.
Anti-American Wins Nobel Prize
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, but spent his youth in the country. From the age of seventeen on, he traveled and lived abroad, chiefly on the European continent. He was influenced by expressionism and other modern currents in Germany and France. In the mid-twenties he converted to Catholicism, but Laxness's religious period did not last long; during a visit to America he became attracted to socialism, which would later on get him into trouble with the Icelandic authorities and eventually blacklisted in the U.S regardless of excellent sales and good reviews.
Hallgrímur, maður eins og ég
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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The Bohemians
Sound Designer
For more than 100 years, The Bohemians have enjoyed their love of music. Some of them sing, some don't - but all of them enjoy a good company and good music.