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Icelandic writer Gudbergur Bergsson, (born 1932 in Grindavik, Iceland), talks about when he learned to appreciate the flamenco in Barcelona durin...

A take from my recording of Bach's Partitas and Chopin's Preludes in Gewandhaus, Leipzig, 2011.

CD release date 4.5.2011

Available on amazon, itun...

A take from my recording of Bach's Partitas and Chopin's Preludes in Gewandhaus, Leipzig, 2011.

CD release date 4.5.2011, on amazon, itunes and CD...

Vikingur Olafsson recording a CD with Bach's Partitas and Chopin's Preludes in Gewandhaus, Leipzig. Art by Hreinn Fridfinnsson

Hvers vegna er fyrsta orðið hjá börnum allstaðar í heiminum yfirleitt það sama?

Þakkir: Pu Jun, Alexander Gomiashvili, Stefan Jon Hafstein, Thordis...

Excerpts from an Icelandic film, partly based on a true crime story. Filming started in 2000 but the production was aborted due to lack of funds. ...

Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre official trailer

Film trailker of Icelandic feature film.

Áramótaskaup 1997. Leikstj/handrit: Viðar Víkingsson. Leikarar: Kjartan Guðjónsson, Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir, Víkingur Heiðar Ólafsson.

Áramótaskaup 1997. Leikstj/handrit: Viðar Víkingsson. Leikarar: Pálmi Gestsson, Steinn Ármann Magnússon, Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir, Inga Mar...

Dr. Robert Zubrin explains why we should make Mars habitable. Filmed near the geothermal power plant at the Blue Lagoon, Iceland. With Bob Zubrin,...

At the 2010 International Space Development Conference we had a chance to catch up with Dr. Robert Zubrin and chat about Mars for a bit. His never-...

Vivacissimo molto ritmico - With Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir. violin, Stefán Jón Bernharðsson, horn, Víkingur Heiðar Ólafsson, piano. Kirkjubæjarklaust...

From the TV-series Svannasongur, (Icelandic Television, 1998). Wr: Hlin Agnarsdottir, dir: Vidar Vikingsson. With Palmi Gestsson, Hjalmar Hjalmars...

Úr „Harðlífur hér í heimi (The Wandering Bishop). The speaker text is directly from the Sturlunga saga, assembled ca. 1300. Guðmundur biskup góði...

From Domicile conjugal ((Bed and Board) - 1970) by François Truffaut. With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Hiroko Berghauer.

1967 Directed by Roman Polanski

Starring Jack MacGowran,Roman Polanski, & Sharon Tate

Scene from an Icelandic TV-film by Vidar Vikingsson, (1987). A ghost story taking place during the British occupation of Iceland (1940-'41). With ...

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SUBIDA AL CIELO - ASCENT TO HEAVEN (or Mexican Bus Ride to give it it's rather o...

Luchino Visconti: Ludwig (1972). With Trevor Howard (Wagner), Silvana Mangano (Cosima), Mark Burns (Hans Von Bülow)

Wagner's love of dogs was legen...

Is there a glimmer of hope somewhere?

On this home by horror haunted- tell me truly, I implore -

Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - t...

From Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon) by Fritz Lang (1929) With Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus.

Based on the short story A fratricide (Ein Brudermord) by Franz Kafka. A student film made at the French Film School Idhec (now Femis) in 1978 at ...

A scene from the TV film (1966) by Roberto Rosselini

Lauritz  Melchior in a Hollywood film, (Luxury Liner, 1948)

Why Franck Ribéry will never have plastic surgery.

A remarkable correspondence between the lifetime of Sir Edmund and the height of Mount Everest.

Capello's words subtitled over a Mussolini speech

Excerpt from Une sale histoire by Jean Eustache, written by Jean-Noël Picq. With Michael Lonsdale, Jean Douchet. (1977) Translation: hvolsvellir

Starring Sylvia Bataille (married to Georges Bataille at the time, and who later married Lacan). Georges Bataille, Jacques Becker and Cartier-Br...

A scene from Antonioni's first feature film (1950), One shot, one scene! That's what they mean by mise-en-scène!

An encore from a concert in May 2008

Megas á Söngskemmtun 1984 - Megas on stage in 1984 - Lyrics : Halldor Laxness

Why the Moon might be a sine qua non for life on Earth.

From an Icelandic TV program (2000) by Vidar Vikingsson.

Megas á Söngskemmtun 1984 - Megas on stage in 1984

Passíusálmar í Skálholti - 16. sálmur

English translation by Arthur Charles Gook

of Hallgrimur Petursson's (1614-1674) :

Hymn XVI The Remorse of...

Megas á Söngskemmtun 1984 - Megas on stage in 1984

S.Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto N.3 Mov.3 (excerpt)

(September 2007) Iceland Symphony Orchestra - Rumon Gamba

Godard and Miéville's 1992 contribution to a series of cigarette ads directed by prestigious filmmakers.