The Poster (featuring Illugi Magnússon a.k.a. DJ Platurn), director Ragga M. Thordarson (top right) and designer Thórdís Claessen (bottom right).
It’s official; ICN readers have selected the poster for Ragga M. Thórdarson’s documentary From Oakland to Iceland: A Hip Hop Homecoming, the Icelandic Movie Poster of the Decade. The poster was designed by Thórdís Claessen, check her portfolio here.
The Poster in question. Click to enlarge.
From Oakland to Iceland: A Hip Hop Homecoming is a documentary about Illugi Magnússon (DJ Platurn), an Iceland native, raised in California since the age of 7. The film explores his 3 week homecoming tour playing in Iceland, where he exhibits his talents as a scratch/trick DJ, among other things. The film has been screened by RUV TV in Iceland, Moviola Canada and on MTV’s Scandinavian website. The director is DJ Platurn’s sister.
“This is a pleasant surprise”, says director Thórdarson in a chat with ICN, “especially as we did this with next to no money. I got the idea for the poster long before I finished the film. I wanted to play with the “fish out of water” theme and I wanted the poster to feature elements of our birthplace. I asked Illugi to send me pictures of him with a turntable in hand, from Oakland. He received instructions from Thórdís (the designer) about positions and she took photos of beaches and piers in Snæfellsnes, were we hail from. And this is the result.”
She wanted to work with Claessen, a childhood friend, since she employs an urban or street style in many of her works, that really fitted with the film. Claessen also did the titles.
“The nominated posters are all great”, she adds, “and I would especially like to mention Ómar Örn Hauksson’s work (he designed the posters for Children, Parents, The Sunshine Boy and The Higher Force to name a few), he’s an exceptionally talented designer.”
Thórdarson is preparing a new documentary, called Fiend (Fíkill), an unconventional look at several people with drug addiction, who managed to turn a new leaf. The project has received development support from The Icelandic Film Centre.
The top five are as follows:
The full results follow:
Jeffrey Bloom
December 11, 2009 at 18:04
Congratulations to my friends Ragga and DJ Platurn, and the designer of the poster, Thordis, on winning the title of best film poster of the DECADE!! So happy for all involved!!
And I’m very excited to hear about Ragga’s upcoming documentary! That’s one that will hit close to home for a lot of people, including me.
Best wishes.