Title of work : "Sad with Satie"
Date of Production : 10/05/2006
Duration : 7.20 min (loop)

Sad with Satie , marks a pointed departure from the artist's earlier subject matter. In this video/animation Haraldsdottir has approached her interest in fiction from a decidedly autobiographical standpoint. Sad with Satie is a patchwork of animated, hallucinatory events woven through hand-held video footage of the main character's circadian routine. Journalistic post-it notes and a confessional voice-over punctuate and amplify the tenor of what is recognizably a suspended state of lost love. Paradoxically, Haraldsdottir's vividly rendered, animated vignettes masquerade as an omnipresent yet alternate reality, thereby reinforcing the romantic notion that suffering is indeed the ideal state for creative insight.   What results is comical, self-deprecating, and destabilizing. (From essay by Lisi Raskin) The sound is an early piano work by Erik Satie (1866 - 1925) "No. 1,   Gnossiennes"          

Previous screenings and exhibitions:   "Cold Heart Revisited", Screening, Scandinavia House, New York "Sequenses" Galleri 1-8, 14/10/06 - 22/10/06, Reykjavík "Sad with Satie" Röda Sten, 17/03 - 14/04/07, Göteborg, Sweden Fukt Screening, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje. Macedonien Preview, Berliner Liste "Video Art from Iceland", Screening Kunst Werke, Berlin "Sad with Satie" Installation 11/06/ - 27/06/06 Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin "The Peninsula", Screening, Singapore History Museum, Singapore

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