‘Heimþrá’ (In Thrall To Home) screening as part of the annual celebration of Jon Sigurdsson day

  • Date: –
  • Venue:
    Winnipeg Art Gallery | Google Map
    300 Memorial Boulevard
    Winnipeg, Manitoba
    Canada
free to the public

núna (now) will be screening ‘Heimþrá’ (In Thrall To Home) as part of the annual celebration of Jon Sigurdsson day, full details:

A film by Erika MacPherson
Original Music by Christine Fellows and John K. Samson
2018, 33:11 mins.

Doubting details of her mother’s deathbed story, a skeptical daughter drags her brother on a genealogical goose chase through the Canadian prairies to the remote Icelandic highland. Becoming spellbound by an increasing sense of belonging to an unfolding story, she discovers a vital piece of its telling is missing: herself.

Erika MacPherson is a Winnipeg-based video artist and documentary filmmaker. Her recent projects include this river, produced by the NFB and co-written/co-directed with Katherena Vermette, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary in 2017.