Description
End of Summer captures Jóhann Jóhannsson’s journey to the Antarctic Peninsula in search of tranquil landscapes and the changing seasons in a place barely touched by civilisation. Shot on Super 8 film, this is a comforting study of a peaceful setting in one of the most important and endangered areas of our planet.
Accompanied by rich and detailed field recordings, this footage is the ideal foil for Jóhann’s musical compositions, performed together with fellow musicians and friends Hildur Guðnadóttir and Robert A. A. Lowe.
About the director : Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969-2018) was an Icelandic composer who wrote music for a wide array of media including theatre, dance, television, and films. His work is stylised by its blending of traditional orchestration with contemporary electronic elements. Jóhann released solo albums from 2002 onward. In 2016, he signed with Deutsche Grammophon, through which he released his last solo album, Orphee. Some of his works in film include the original scores for Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, Sicario, and Arrival, and James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything. Jóhann was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for both The Theory of Everything and Sicario, and won a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for the former. He was a music and sound consultant on Mother!, directed by Darren Aronofsky in 2017. His scores for Mary Magdalene and Mandy were released posthumously.