Gylfaginning - The Deluding of King Gylfi

Gylfaginning - The Deluding of King Gylfi (2017) (English dialogue with French subtitles)

18mins, 16mm color, 1.66:1, 5.1 Sound

Selections: Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (2017), The Northern Wave Film Festival Iceland, Avvantura Film Festival Vis Croatia, Mestia Georgia Mountain Film Festival, Uppsala Short Film Festival.

Distribution: Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Arsenal Berlin

Directed, shot and edited by Diana Vidrascu. Voici over: Lara Zizliauskas Sound mix: Jean-Michel Béranger.

SYNOPSIS

King Gylfi’s deluding is the first chapter of The Prose Edda, one of the first Icelandic texts (13th century) and probably the most exhaustive medieval source of our knowledge of Norse legends. The Gods tell the story of the creation myth while they perpetually trick the king with a cunning set of visual illusions. Lara is ten years’ old, this is her first reading of the Edda. She discovers the Norse universe at the same time as the camera discovers Iceland today.