WHEN WE ARE BORN is a novel reside efficiency movie that tells a touching and totally human story primarily based partially on Ólafur’s life. Filmed on location in Iceland in summer time 2020, it options the contributions of an unparalleled artistic collective together with ground-breaking choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir, the Iceland Dance Firm and cinematographer Thor Eliasson. The music within the movie builds upon Ólafur’s critically praised new album ‘some form of peace’ and was carried out and recorded reside on set, representing a continuing cinematic dialog between image and music. Vincent Moon’s intimate cinematic imaginative and prescient brings this layered metaphorical world to life as we see Ólafur’s music manifested and symbolised throughout him by way of set design, lighting and dance. By themes of rituals, relationships and exploration of our internal landscapes, it is a movie centered on how all of us transfer ahead.
