Heiðrik á Heygum

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) and Sigarett. Also is known by directed music videos "True Love" and "Rain" 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, social stigma evolving guilt, shame 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

Television series

Music videos

Post productions

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 on 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 called Tasty Tears.[17]

Discography

Singles released on Soundcloud

Art exhibitions

Awards and Nominations

References

  1. ↑ "Heidrik a Heygum". Vimeo. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Kovalsky, Anton (7 December 2014). "Heiðrik Á Heygum: "I don’t make music videos for the money or to get famous"". faroesemusic.reaktivist.ru. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "ORKA - Aldan Reyð (Director: Heiðrik á Heygum)". Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "7th Round of Nominations for the Berlin Music Video Awards 2014". Berlinmva. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 Østerø, Mortan (11 December 2014). "Heiðrikur tók alt (Heiðrikur took all)" (in Faroese). in.fo (Sosialurin). Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  6. ↑ Poulsen, Kinna; Smærup Sørensen, Inger (11 January 2011). "Heiðrik í Steinprenti" (in Faroese). Listin. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  7. ↑ See Facebook.com
  8. ↑ Jacobsen, Tórbjørn (8 August 2014). "Havfrúgvin 90 ár (The Mermaid 90 years old)" (in Faroese). in.fo (Sosialurin). Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Waves – A Portrait of Maria á Heygum" (in Danish). Filmmagasinet Ekko. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  10. ↑ Lücke, Stephan (6 January 2015). "Interview: Heiðrik á Heygum wins 2014 Faroese Film Awards". Nordic Style Magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  11. ↑ "Heiðrik Heygum" (in Danish). S16. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  12. ↑ "ORKA - Aldan Reyð (Director: Heiðrik á Heygum)" (in Faroese). YouTube. 17 December 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  13. ↑ Pálsdóttir, Eivør; á Heygum, Heiðrik (18 March 2013). "Eivør - TRUE LOVE". YouTube. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  14. ↑ "Eivør - Rain (Director: Heiðrik á Heygum)". YouTube. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "BYRTA - Í tínum eygum (Director: Heiðrik á Heygum)" (in Faroese). YouTube. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  16. ↑ "Tar Torna". YouTube - Heiðrik. 16 February 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  17. ↑ "Heidrik & Greta Svabo Bech - Tasty Tears (Unplugged)". YouTube - Heidrik. 19 December 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  18. ↑ Nolsøe, Eir (12 October 2011). "Heiðrik: – Nógv broyttur síðan An Invisible Gun" (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  19. ↑ Heiðrik á Soundcloud
  20. ↑ "HEIÐRIK Á HEYGUM". http://heidrik-heygum.squarespace.com/. Retrieved 15 October 2015. External link in |publisher= (help)
  21. ↑ Poulsen, Kinna (3 August 2011). "Ólavsøkuframsýningin 2011" (in Faroese). Listin. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  22. ↑ Poulsen, Kinna; Smærup Sørensen, Inger (12 August 2010). "Innrás – Heiðrik á Heygum" (in Faroese). Listin. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  23. ↑ Jensen, Annemarie Lai (15 May 2012). "Færøsk udvandring" (in Danish). Kunsten.nu. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  24. ↑ Clipea, Clara (1 June 2009). "My room (Mitt rum)". Kaliber35 Munich International Film Festival. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  25. ↑ "Nominees 2014". Berlin Music Video Awards. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  26. ↑ Norðlýsið on YouTube
  27. ↑ True Love on YouTube
  28. ↑ Rana, Danjal av (14 March 2015). "Havnin og Gøta heiðrað" (in Faroese). in.fo. Retrieved 9 October 2015.

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