Director: Teitur Árnason Duration: 56 min. / Format: VHS PAL (not available in NTSC) Produced by feelgood films / With English subtitles
Fugloy - the first island you meet when you travel to the Faroes from the continent of Europe. Surrounded by staggering mountains the village of Hattarvik is situated in a small bay facing southeast out to the Atlantic Ocean. Developed through centuries, you find here the quintessence of everyday life on an island. Hunting, fishing and simple farming is maintained in a cash free society. But like the rest of the world the Faroe Islands also go through urbanization and slowly but surely the outskirts become depopulated.
The film is a journey around the life of these people. Conceptions about isolation, solitude, uniformity and perseverance will be more in focus than regional policy in general in which these people always end up as small numbers in dry statistics. The aim is to create an atmosphere with these interesting people in their natural surroundings and thus let them speak for themselves in this serious discussion on extinction.
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After its premiere in the Nordic House in Tórshavn in 2001 this film has been shown at several art festivals.
In October/November 2002 it was shown at the "Nordische Filmtage" in Lübeck and at the Uppsala Internationella Short Film Festival where it received the "Video Section Award".
Enquiries about the film have come from Torino and Paris and this winter it will be shown on the Icelandic national television.
Please note!
The video format is VHS PAL (the format used in Europe) this means that in the USA it will not play unless you own a video machine that is PAL compatible.
Iceland: 450 km
Shetland: 322 km
Fugloy - the first island you meet when you travel to the Faroes from the continent of Europe. Surrounded by staggering mountains the village of Hattarvik is situated in a small bay facing southeast out to the Atlantic Ocean. Developed through centuries, you find here the quintessence of everyday life on an island. Hunting, fishing and simple farming is maintained in a cash free society. But like the rest of the world the Faroe Islands also go through urbanization and slowly but surely the outskirts become depopulated.
