Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir

Hrafnhildur GUNNARSDÓTTIR (Iceland) has worked in film and TV as a director and director of photography. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989 and resided in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 15 years, working on many documentary films such as Alive in Limbo, which received the Locarno Human Rights Special Mention and the Spirit Award from BIFF and Senorita Extraviada by Lourdes Portillo, which received a Special Documentary Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival. During those years, she had a base at Video Free America. In 2019, Hrafnhildur made a feature documentary about the video art pioneers Steina Vasulka and Woody Vasulka, The Vasulka Effect.

Filmography

(selection) Hrein og bein (2003), People Like That (1970-1985) (2018), The Vasulka Effect/Vasulka áhrifin (2019)