A film by: Árni Sveinsson
Music Documentary 75 Minutes – Colour, DIGIBETA – English/Iceland 2010
Árni and Árni have decided to improvise their own mini-festival, while the rest of the city is celebrating the annual Reykjavik cultural night. The lineup includes some of Iceland’s most exiting bands today like MÚM,HJALTALÍN, BORKÓ, SIN FANG BOUS, REYKJAVIK!, RETRO STEFSON AND FM BELFAST, all playing for local passers-by, tourists and backyard cats. Árni Sveinsson’s ‘Backyard’ captures the characteristic do-it-yourself attitude which has made Reykjavik’s underground scene so artistically strong and successful. Genres are completely secondary for the young musicians, and the only thing that can shut them up is heavy rain. But late summer has plenty of nuances, and the sun returns to the small enclosure, which develops into a party that is larger than anyone expected. A film that confirms that there is a way for Iceland out of the crisis. And that 101 is still the coolest zip code of the North.”
