Monday, 19 August 2024

herðubíó (11. 779)

Originally built as a as a meeting house for the people of Seyðisfjörður under the auspices of the Herðubreið community council (broad-shouldered after the nearby tuya, a mesa-like, steep-sided volcano formed when lava erupts through glacial ice and considered national landmark and Queen of the Mountains) in 1923 and transformed into in movie theatre a quarter of a century later, Herðubíó as a cinema and cultural venue remains the only one in Iceland’s east, and we really enjoyed the feature from Grapevine contributor Iryna Zubenko on the labour of love it took to restore this region’s fixture and anchor after shuttering in 2020. The port town of seven hundred, but audiences come from all over for the single screen, is also home to the only car-ferry service into or out of Iceland with connections to the Faroes via Hirtshals, Denmark. The refurbished movie house was designed Gísli Halldórsson, the architect of numerous public buildings, stadia and hotels in Reykjavík.

 synchronoptica

one year ago: assorted links to revisit (with synchronoptica) plus the first Saturday morning television programming block for kids

seven years ago: Trump’s imperial ambitions plus a mass resignation from the US National Endowment of the Arts

eight years ago: perpetual calendars, the 1968 Summer Games plus more links to enjoy

nine years ago: the Digital Star Chamber

ten years ago: the displaced head of Vladimir Lenin