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19.02.2007 | 11:00

A Small Collage of Horror

Click on the picture to watch this spooky 6-minute movie by multimedia student Egill Már Arnarsson, filmed at the abandoned farm Bakkasel in Öxnadalur valley, north Iceland.

Bakkasel used to be a guesthouse and a pit stop for people traveling between Reykjavík and Akureyri, but was abandoned decades ago.

“This small collage of horror was made with an old home video camera and an unreliable editing program at my mom’s PC,” Arnarsson told icelandreview.com.

“In the summer of 2005, two of my friends and I went to this abandoned guesthouse 30 minutes south of Akureyri to shoot this flickering idea in my head.”

“We had to plan every scene in detail, because we only had about an hour of battery life to work with. The film took three hours to shoot and the sound was recorded the day after in the actress’ living room,” Arnarsson explained.

“For about 90 percent of the film, I rearranged every frame, 24 frames per second, making it a twitchy collage with equally twitchy noises.”

“Like any film it is best enjoyed on a big-screen TV with a pair of good headphones and the lights off,” he added.

Egill Már Arnarsson is in his first year at the School of Multimedia in Reykjavík.



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