Heiðrik á Heygum

Heiðrik á Heygum (born 1983) is a Faroese, artist and filmmaker musician best known for his electro pop album An Invisible Gun, and the award winning short films and music videos Mítt Rúm, Aldur Sigarett, True Love" and "Rain" by Eivør and Aldan reyð" by ORKA.[1] 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.

Art

Heiðrik 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 cover art for many faroese artist such as Eivør, ORKA, Páll Finnur Páll , SAKARIS, Guðrið Hansdóttir and BYRTA.

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,[2] and has since won awards at festivals such as Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF)[3] and UNGFILM09, where it won the Rasmus-Award.

After graduating from Kort & Dokumentar Filmskolen in Denmark,[4] 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.

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 Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 2014 Faroese Film Night, the national Film Awards of the Faroe Islands.[5]

Music

Heiðrik released his first single "Jealous" in 2007 from his album "An Invisible Gun" 2007 in the Faroe Islands.[6] in the autumn of 2007 to favorable reviews by the local press.[7] Before the release, Heiðrik directed a music video for the song Tár torna.

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

Filmography

Discography

Singles released on Soundcloud

Awards and Nominations

References

  1. ↑ http://www.roddin.fo/?p=10907
  2. ↑ NLH.fo
  3. ↑ Nuff.no
  4. ↑ See Facebook.com
  5. ↑ Lücke, Stephan (6 January 2015). "Interview: Heiðrik á Heygum wins 2014 Faroese Film Awards". Nordic Style Magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  6. ↑ Tutl.com
  7. ↑ Mess.fo
  8. ↑ Nuff.no
  9. ↑ Heinesen.fo (Trailer of the film)
  10. ↑ Portal.fo (Faroese)
  11. ↑ Deadly Music! A Music Blog From Ireland
  12. ↑ Heiðrik á Soundcloud
  13. ↑ in.fo - Heiðrikur tók alt (Heiðrikur took it all), written by Mortan Østerø on 11 December 2014

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