Heiðrik á Heygum

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Heiðrik á Heygum pronounced [ˈhaɪ:ɹɪk ˈɔ ˈheɪ:jʊn] (born 1983 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese artist, filmmaker and musician,[1] who currently lives in Iceland.[2] He is known for several works, i.e. his most recent award winning short film Skuld (Guilt) and for the electro pop album An Invisible Gun, and the award winning short film Mítt Rúm (My Room), for which he won the NUFF prize, a Nordic film award for young directors. Other short films and music videos directed by á Heygum include Aldur (Waves) Sigarett, True Love" and "Rain" sung by Eivør and Aldan reyð" by ORKA.[3] The music video True Love sung by Eivør and directed by Heiðrik was nominated for the Berlin Music Video Awards 2014.[4]

Heiðrik graduated from the Danish alternative film school Super16 in 2014 as director and now lives in Iceland studying in the Icelandic Academy of Fine Art.

In December 2014 he won both Faroese film prizes, the Geytin award and the Audience award, which are handed on the same event. He won the prizes for his short film Skuld, which means Guilt, it is a horror movie. Ten films were nomintated for the Geytin film award.[5]

Art

Heiðrik is an artist, he works mainly with watercolors (aquarelles) and his main subjects are usually domestic issues such as parenthood, sexuality, feminism and loneliness. Apart from book illustrations Heiðrik has also made the cover of albums for many Faroese musicians such as Eivør, ORKA, Páll Finnur Páll , SAKARIS, Guðrið Hansdóttir and BYRTA. In 2010 he was asked to make an art work for Arbeiðsloysisskipanin, short name is ALS, which is the Faroese public unemployment insurance. ALS orders an art work from a Faroese artist every years in order to give their staff a Christmas present. In December 2010 Heiðrik á Heygum made the art work for the annual present to the ALS-staff. The art work was a lithography depicting a woman with a towel around her hair, the title was "Hann avlýsti" (He cancelled).[6]

Film and music videos

Heiðrik directed a music video for the song Tár torna from his first album "An Invisble Gun" Heiðrik then took interest in filmmaking, and directed the short film Mítt Rúm (eng: My Room)). The short film premiered at the Faroese film festival in October 2008, and has since won awards at festivals such as Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF) and UNGFILM09, where it won the Rasmus-Award.

After graduating from Kort & Dokumentar Filmskolen in Denmark,[7] he began working with advertising and commercials.

In 2011 Heiðrik got accepted to the Danish alternative film school Super16 where he graduated spring 2014.

Apart from shortfilms Heiðrik has done several award winning music videos for himself and Faroese and Icelandic artist such as Eivør, ORKA, SAKARIS and BYRTA. Heiðrik has received two selected Vimeo Staff Pick videos.

Waves

Heiðrik made a short film, a documentary, in 2010 about his grandmother Maria Hummeland á Heygum,[8] who at that time was 85 years old and was swimming in the sea in her village Vestmanna every morning.[9]

Skuld

Skuld is a short film directed by Heiðrik, running about 30 minutes, starring Sofía Nolsøe and Rúna á Heygum, a horror story set in 1961. It premiered in late 2014 and won both the Geytin Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 2014 Faroese Film Night, the national Film Awards of the Faroe Islands.[10]

Filmography

Short films

  • 2009 - Mítt Rúm (My Room) (short film), writer, director and editor.
  • 2010 - Waves – A Portrait of Maria á Heygum, (portrait film).
  • 2010 - Sigarett (Cigarette) (short film) Writer, director, actor and editor.
  • 2012 - "A Hipstory" (short film) Writer, director.
  • 2013 - True Love (short film) Writer, director.
  • 2014 - Skuld (Guilt) (short film) director

Television series

  • 2008–2009 - Mús (television series): Co writer, reporter, editor and TV host. A series for youth with 8 episodes made for the Faroese National Television (Kringvarp Føroya).[11]

Music videos

  • 2006 - Tár Torna Heiðrik (music video), writer, director and editor.
  • 2011 - Needle and a String (music video) Writer, director, editor and singer.
  • 2011 - Aldan reyð (music video) music by ORKA. Writer, director[12]
  • 2012 - Blonde - Heiðrik (music video) Writer, director.
  • 2012 - OMG - Heiðrik (music video) Writer, director.
  • 2013 - True Love Eivør (music video) Writer, director[13]
  • 2013 - Nothing is Written in the Stars Bloodgroup. (music video) Writer, director
  • 2013 - Brace Myself Sakaris (music video) Writer, director and editor.
  • 2013 - Norðlýsið BYRTA (music video) Writer, director and editor.
  • 2013 - Bolimia Heiðrik (music video) Writer, director and editor.
  • 2014 - Rain Eivør (music video) Writer, director[14]
  • 2014 - Í tínum eygum BYRTA (music video) Writer, director and editor.[15]
  • 2015 - Andvekur BYRTA (music video) Writer, director and editor.
  • 2015 - Aftur og Aftur BYRTA (music video) Writer, director and editor.

Post productions

  • 2008 - ORKA & YANN TIERSEN Live in Rennes (post production), Director and editor.

Music

Heiðrik released his first single "Jealous" in 2007 from his album "An Invisible Gun" 2007 in the Faroe Islands. In the autumn of 2007 to favorable reviews by the local press. Before the release, Heiðrik directed a music video for the song Tár torna.[16]

Since then Heiðrik has only released his music as music videos on YouTube but in 14 July 2014 Heiðrik released his first single since 2007 called "Maria's Donkey". Heiðrik has confirmed that he has already begun working on his second studio album with producer Janus Rasmussen.

In December 2013 Heiðrik and Greta Svabo Bech made a song and video together and sing it together, it is called Tasty Tears.[17]

Discography

  • "Jealous", Nov. 2007, single.
  • "An Invisible Gun", Dec. 2007, album[18]
  • "Maria's Donkey", July. 2014, single.
  • "Funeral", 2016, album.

Singles released on Soundcloud

  • 2013 – Babel
  • 2013 – Broke
  • 2013 – Betty
  • 2013 – Light Years
  • 2013 – Cocoon Live (Björk cover)
  • 2013 – Remember Me -LIVE
  • 2013 – Jealous (Live Radio)
  • 2012 – Backstage Fright feat. SAKARIS
  • 2012 – Fireworks (Live)
  • 2012 – Peter Pan
  • 2012 – Maria's Donkey
  • 2012 – OMG
  • 2012 – Blonde
  • 2011 – Private Affair (Edit)
  • 2011 – My Gratitude (To Birgit)
  • 2011 – Fireworks – DEMO
  • 2011 – Late Bloomer (DEMO)
  • 2011 – Twenty One (Demo)
  • 2011 – Private Affair (DEMO)
  • 2010 – Peter Pan (UK MIX)
  • 2010 – Heidrik live on Radio 12 March 2010
  • 2010 – Babel
  • 2010 – Jealous[19]

Art exhibitions

  • 1996 and 1997 - Showed work at, Smiðjan í Lítluvík on the Faroe Islands [20]
  • 1998 - Showed work at, The Nordic House, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
  • 2005 - Solo exhibition, Smiðjan í Lítluvík, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
  • 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2011,[21] 2012 and 2013 - Selected to show works in the censured Faroese Summer Exhibition “Ólavsøkuframsýningin” at The National Faroese Art Museum)
  • 2007 - Curated and showed worked at “Ólavsøkuframsýningin” (Faroese Summer Exhibition at The National Faroese Art Museum, named after Ólavsøka)
  • 2010 - Curated and showed worked at Müllers Pakkhús in Tórshavn, an exhibition for young Faroese artist called Innrás (Invasion).[22]
  • 2012 - Curated and showed worked at Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen [23]
  • 2015 - Showed work at Husumer Bucht Museum in Germany

Awards and Nominations

  • 2009 - NUFF (Short film festival for young filmmakers in the Nordic countries) Wins for best short film Mítt Rúm (My Room) [24]
  • 2013 - Nominated for best music video at the Berlin Music Video Awards 2014 for Eivør – True Love [25]
  • 2014 - Geytin Award (a Faroese film award, a stuette and 25 0000 DKK)[5]
  • 2014 - Áskoðaravirðislønin (Audience award of 15 000 DKK, handed at the same event as the Geytin Award)
  • 2014 - Nominated for the Faroese Music Awards for the music video Byrta – Norðlýsið, instructor: Heiðrik á Heygum[26]
  • 2014 - Nominated for the Faroese Music Awards for the music video Eivør – True Love, instructor: Heiðrik á Heygum[27]
  • 2015 - Faroese Music Awards - Wins for best music video (Eivør - Rain), instructor: Heiðrik[28]

References

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