Ragnar Axelsson

At the foot of Europe’s largest glacier, seven Icelandic siblings once lived in deliberate isolation, dedicating their lives to observing ice and nature long before climate change had a name. Their abandoned farmhouse becomes a living archive, animated by photographs, objects, and a 16mm film that restores gestures, spaces, and a vanished way of being in the world.

Ragnar Alexsson, a.k.a. RAX, is among the most celebrated photographers in the world. His series Faces of the North are a living document of the dying cultures of the far northern reaches of the planet. His photo essays of farmers and fishermen in Icleand, and of the great hunters of Greenland give an amazing insight into everyday life of people who struggle a daily battle with the Arctic nature. A celebration of the photographer and his subjects, Last Days of the Arctic is an elegy for a disappearing landscape and the people who inhabit it.

LEICA - A CENTURY OF VISION shows how the invention of the 35mm format revolutionized documentary photography. Featuring legendary and contemporary photographers the film reveals the camera's enduring power to capture history as it unfolds.

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Understated Icelandic humour and breathtaking landscapes in a charming and picturesque film about birds and people – and about a deeply lovable elderly couple and their friends.

Buoyed by the imagination of Jules Verne, who once contributed to the international renown of the land of the northern lights, Christine Oberdorff adds the black-and-white imagery of award-winning Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson. This new opus navigates between what characterizes the island of fire and ice: the imaginary and the real, from the bluish reflections of the caves at the top of Snaefellsjoküll that made Jules Verne fantasize, to the performance of geothermal energy and carbon storage, thanks to which Iceland intends to find remedies for global warming, of which it is one of the Arctic "thermostats".

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Understated Icelandic humour and breathtaking landscapes in a charming and picturesque film about birds and people – and about a deeply lovable elderly couple and their friends.