Ragnar Kjartansson Movies
- 2013
A Lot of Sorrow
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Icelandic artist and musician Ragnar Kjartansson’s often intensely durational performance-based works manifest a rare synthesis of pathos and...
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- 2012
The Visitors
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A celebration of creativity, community, and friendship, The Visitors (2012) documents a 64-minute durational performance Kjartansson staged with some...
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- 2002
Death and the Children
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Single-channel video, 4' 54"
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- 2003
Kissing
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No plot found
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- 2019
Death is Elsewhere
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In this seven-channel video installation, two pairs of identical twin musicians circle each other, playing the same endless song.
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- 2004
Satan Is Real
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Kjartansson appears bare-chested and buried waist-deep in a Reykjavik public park. Strumming a guitar, he plaintively sings the...
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- 2010
The Man
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Ragnar Kjartansson meets with American blues musician Pinetop Perkins in a field near Pinetop's home in Austin, Texas. Ragnar films Pinetop in the...
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- 2022
No Tomorrow
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No Tomorrow is a new video installation by Kjartansson, choreographer Margrét Bjarnadóttir, and composer Bryce Dessner. Spanning six...
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- 2005
Mercy
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The video Mercy (2005) presents an alt-country ode consisting of a single lyric — "Oh why do I keep on hurting you" — which Kjartansson,...
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