Package Deals tours each program after its NYC Premiere. Currently, PD03: Daydream Nation and PD02: Cold Hearts are traveling in 2007. For booking information, please contact us.
Scroll down to read about Cold Hearts, artist films and music videos from Iceland.
Package Deals, in collaboration with The Tank, is proud to announce the launch of its latest Touring Package. PD03: Daydream Nation, a curated lineup of animated shorts, music videos, and artist films rarely seen outside of their native Nordic kingdom, showcases work from some of the best and most creative Swedish imaginations around. It will travel to cinemas, film festivals, artspaces, and galleries across the U.S. and abroad in 2007.
A far cry from the beloved Saturday cartoons of mornings past, Daydream Nation’s roster of 17 animated films and videos offers a vision of Sweden all grown-up, bringing unorthodox and often unsettling imagery to life. Couples on the brink, lonely mopers, professional disillusionment, and more than a few decapitation and dismemberment scenes find themselves juxtaposed against the nicer things in life: colorful origami, toy cars, dancing ladies with parasols, horses, and pretty blonde party girls. So is Sweden, then, a nation of dreamers? Well, this program, featuring vibrant work from the cosmopolitan streets of Stockholm, the up-and-coming communities of arty Göteborg, the maritime landscape of southernmost Malmö, and various expatriate outposts, dares to suggest so.
Daydream Nation’s diverse program includes work by festival favorites Klara Swantesson and Peter Larsson, whose films represented two-thirds of the 2006 nominations for “Best Short Film” at Sweden’s national version of the Oscars, the Guldbagge awards. Likewise, Sweden’s world-class contemporary music scene is ably represented, running the gamut from the macabre electronica of The Knife to the saccharine pop of The Concretes, the Envelopes, and El Perro Del Mar. Also on offer are films by well-known music video directors Andreas Nilsson, Andreas Korsár, Björn Renner, and Henrik Åkerberg.
Daydream Nation showcases artist films by Henrik Åkerberg, Johannes Nyholm, Peter Larsson, Klara Swantesson, Moa Lönn, and Björn Renner. Music videos by The Knife, Love Is All, The Concretes, El Perro del Mar, Envelopes, The Radio Dept, Jose Gonzalez, Erik de Vahl, and Peter, Björn, and John.
For booking inquiries, please contact us.
Daydream Nation Tour 2007
Detroit Film Center, Detroit – May 26, 2007
Croatia Film Clubs Association, Zagreb – June 5, 2007
Indie Memphis Micro Cinema, Memphis, TN – June 13 2007
Duchess Gallery at Roots & Culture, Chicago – July 21, 2007
AS220, Providence, RI – July 25, 2007
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX - August 5, 2007
Brattle Theater, Boston, MA - August 9, 2007
Sound Unseen Music + Film Fest, Minneapolis, MN - August 23, 2007
FINDS (presented by Videotage), Hong Kong - August 28, 2007
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia – September 2007
Athens, Greece – October 2007
Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC - November 8, 2007
Renew Theaters, Bryn Mawr/Doylestown/Ambler, PA - December 5 + 6, 2007
Program Details (* denotes music video)
The Knife (Dir: Motomichi Nakamura), We Share Our Mother's Health* (2006, 4:13)
Peter Larsson, The Man Who Got Nowhere (2005, 3:08)
Love Is All (Dir: Andreas Nilsson), Ageing Had Never Been His Friend* (2007, 3:04)
Johannes Nyholm, The Tale of Little Puppetboy (2005, 4:20)
Erik De Vahl (Dir: Otto Mogren), Friendly Fire* (2005, 2:59)
Björn Renner, The Horse’s Sanity (2000, 11:00)
Moa Lönn, Food (2006, 1:37)
Envelopes, Sister in Love* (2005, 2:42)
Concretes (Dir: Daniel Levi), Chosen One* (2006, 3:09)
Moa Lönn, Floor (2006, 0:40)
The Knife (Dirs: Andreas Korsár and Andreas Nilsson), N.Y Hotel* (2001, 2:50)
Klara Swantesson, Radicalized (2006, 7:42)
El Perro Del Mar (Dir: Åsa Arnehed), God Knows* (2006, 3:39)
Moa Lonn, Pink (2006, 1:41)
The Radio Dept (Dir: Henrik Åkerberg), Pulling Our Weight* (2004, 3:28)
José González, Stay in the Shade (Dir: Elias Araya) (2006, 2:22)
Peter, Björn, + John (Dir: Graham Samuels), Young Folks* (2006, 4:40)
Henrik Åkerberg, Hokus Pokus (2004, 4:00)
TRT: 65 minutes
Support for the Daydream Nation tour is provided in part by The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Special thanks to the Tank and the Consulate General of Sweden in New York.
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After premiering on April 30, 2006, during Lisa Kirk's "On ne sais jamais" series at MonkeyTown in Brooklyn, NY, Package Deals' current touring package, Cold Hearts, is now screening at venues around North America and Europe in 2006 and 2007. Featuring macabre stop animation, the secret life of moss, mouse suits, exploding dictaphones, women who live on clouds, Outkast ballads, and some very creative uses for whipped cream, Cold Hearts represents the whimsical Icelandic imagination. 17 artist films and music videos cover expansive aesthetic ground. Working in locales as diverse as art school in Los Angeles to the craggy vistas of Skagafjördur in northern Iceland, these young artists explore their native and adopted worlds in inventive ways. Intrinsically dark and aloof, yet also refreshingly honest, Cold Hearts is a glimpse into the curious cultural landscape of Iceland now. From the fantastical, sometimes disturbing artist films of Unnar Andrea Einarsdottir to the otherworldly output created by bands such as Mum and Apparat Organ Quartet, the Icelandic aesthetic is as strange and beautiful as it is overlooked.
Cold Hearts Tour 2006-7:
Zeitgeist Cinema, New Orleans - Sunday, June 25 at 8pm
AS220, Providence, RI - Thursday, July 20 at 9:30pm (doors at 9)
Duchess Presents, Chicago - Saturday, July 22
Roxy Bar & Screen, London - August 3, 2006
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX - August 12, 2006
Sound Unseen Music + Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN - Monday, August 21, 2006
Indie Memphis Micro Cinema Club, Memphis, TN - Wednesday, September 13
Detroit Film Center, Detroit, Michigan - September 30th
Antimatter Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada - September 2006
Croatian Film Association Cinema, Zagreb, Croatia - October 2006
The Ritz at the Bourse, Philadelphia, PA - October 26, 2006
The Varsity, Seattle, WA - November 2, 2006
Allmanna Galleriet 925, Stockholm, Sweden - December 2006
Alamo Drafthouse, Austin, TX - January 22, 2007
Short Cuts Film Club, Visby, Sweden - April 18, 2007
Ashdod Film and Music Festival, Ashdod, Israel - May 28, 2007
Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City - May 2007
and more to be announced...
For booking information, please contact Package Deals.
the Cold Hearts lineup...
Kristin Helga Karadóttir, Untitled. (2006, loop, video)
A speechless performance-video. The artist saw this picture while meditating. She is extremely happy, sitting on a cloud in the sky, waving to the people below.
Apparat Organ Quartet (dir: Magnus Helgason), Global Capital. (2005, 5:20, 16mm)
A stop-animation music video for the all-man band, featuring Icelandic flags, bread crumbs, and other ephemera.
Berglind Ágústsdóttir, Husid a Antmannstignum (House on Antmannstig). (2003, 4:12, video)
A stop-animation nature video.
Bjargey Ólafsdóttir, Jean. (1997, 2:00, 16mm)
An ironic story of a French banker and his troublesome marriage with the adorable Jean, featuring his thoughts of love, death, and, of course, marriage.
My Summer as a Salvation Solider (dir: Elvar Gunnarsson), Hey Ya! (2004, 3:02, video)
A cover of the Outkast song that became 20 year-old Thórir's first hit. Shot in a single take.
Múm (dir: Semiconductor), Green Grass of Tunnel. (2002, 4:12, video).
Inspired by the mysterious terrain where the music was made, the very lighthouse and valley the band lived whilst recording "Finally We Are No One" is remade into a fantastical dreamland.
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Landslag. (2004, 4:00, video)
A visual nature poem consisting of images taken from the Skagafjördur region of Iceland.
Lars Skjelbreia, Mosimosi. (2004, 4:00, video)
The secret life of moss portrayed through stop-motion animation.
Berglind Ágústsdóttir, Untitled. (2005, 4:30, video)
A lo-fi, hybrid art film/music video shot in the lovely meadows of Seydisfjord and featuring a menagerie of dancing characters.
Gus Gus (dirs: Stefan Arni & Siggi Kjartansson), Believe. (2001, 4:17, video)
A man, a woman, and a swimming pool.
Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir, Toilet. (2005, 4:50, video)
A short form art piece exploring the juxtaposition between primal physical pleasures and the feelings we associate with their aftermath.
Maus (dir: Elvar Gunnarsson), Over Me Under Me. (2004, 3:20, video)
An increasingly bizarre, cyclical journey that follows one man though several days.
Hlynur Magnússon, Digital Jesus. (2005, 5:23, video)
A strange sinister church gone wrong...
Malin Ståhl, Welcome to: Going West. (2004, 2:34, slides+16mm transferred to video)
Using slides found in a vacant building in Reykjavik, Stahl reconstructs an Icelandic woman's visit to friends in L.A and adds a soundtrack cut together from well-known American mainstream movies.
Sigur Rós (dirs: Stefan Arni and Siggi Kinski), Vidrar Vel Til Loftárása. (2001, 6:59, video)
Filmed in Iceland, with an entirely amateur cast and the group making cameo appearances as the referee, score-keeper etc. this video tells a simple, if emotionally charged, tale of two adolescent boys' burgeoning feelings for each other, culminating in a kiss during a youth soccer match.
Bang Gang (dir: Ragnar Bragason), Stop in the Name of Love. (2003, 3:34, super-8)
A cover of the Supremes' classic reimagined as a home movie shot in pastoral Iceland. Bang Gang's new album, "Something Wrong," hits stores September 2006.
Ragnar Bragason and Bardi Jóhannsson, Who's Bardi. (2003, 29:01, video)
A group of filmmakers follows the Icelandic musical prodigy Bardi Jóhannsson around. He gives the impression of being a health freak, into spiritual things and sports. The filmmakers look more closely and discover a world of contradictions.
Kira Kira, Romantic Undead. (2005, 1:00, b&w video)
Featuring a ghost that slithers inside a dictaphone, sings and explodes.
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