A quiet documentary on the modern Icelandic landscape painter Georg Gudni. It's a lovely film contrasting the stark beauty of the Icelandic countryside in film with Gudni's canvases, which have an atmospheric quality and were constructed from the meticulous application of layers of oil paint. Most of his work contained a horizon line of some kind, but the transition between land and sea or air is incredibly subtle.
Gudni died at the age of 50 in 2011 (this is revealed in the doc, but no cause of death is provided). For us, there was a slight coincidence in that 2011 was the year that Sherri and I went to Iceland and I'm sure we saw his work when we visited the National Gallery in Reykjavik.
Beautiful.
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