Ella Reynisdóttir

Gummi and Gúa live together in a fishing village when everything in their lives start to change.

The summer of 2004 two engineer from Seyðisfjörður found a three-blade broach and an oval broach high up in the mountains of East Fjords in Iceland. Archaeologists arrived on the scene under the direction of Sigurd Bergsteinsson. They discover remains of a Viking woman, some jewelry and over 500 pearls. Who was this woman? What was she doing in the mountains, all by herself? The finding was unique, never before have so many artifacts from a Viking woman been found in an open country. The film is produced in collaboration with the National Museum of Iceland and The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland.

Kristofer travels the postal trail on his route across the interiors. He is accompanied by a newly ordained vicar and a young lady, Maria. The arrogant clergyman sees Kristofer as a rival for the beautiful Maria’s attentions and is determined to demonstrate his superiority.

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.

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.