{"id":65514,"date":"2025-09-27T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riff.is\/?p=65514"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:24:49","slug":"forseti-islands-afhendir-heidursverdlaun-riff-a-bessastodum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/forseti-islands-afhendir-heidursverdlaun-riff-a-bessastodum\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Iceland presents RIFF Honorary Award at Bessasta\u00f0ir"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The honorary award of the Reykjav\u00edk International Film Festival was presented yesterday afternoon at Bessasta\u00f0ir, in the presence of invited guests. Halla T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir, President of Iceland, presented the award to Dutch director and photographer Anton Corbijn for Creative Excellence. On this occasion, she remarked on her great admiration for his photographs of one of her favorite bands, U2, with whom Corbijn has enjoyed a successful collaboration for more than 40 years.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A yellow weather warning to spark inspiration<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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She added that challenging conditions often ignite creativity in those with an artistic streak. That might explain why so many unusually creative people come from Iceland. She jokingly mentioned that she had nudged Mother Nature to provide some invigorating weather to spark even more inspiration \u2014 as a yellow weather warning was in effect yesterday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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An easy transition between mediums<\/span><\/p><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Before the award presentation, film producer Sigurj\u00f3n Sighvatsson gave a short speech about Corbijn. Sigurj\u00f3n emphasized how admirable it was that, in a world where people are often forced into narrow boxes \u2014 especially in the entertainment industry in the West \u2014 Corbijn has effortlessly moved between mediums, always maintaining his unique vision while creating works of art that will stand the test of time, whether as a photograph, a music video, or a feature film. Few can devote themselves to such different mediums without losing credibility.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Multimedia master talk<\/span><\/p><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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H\u00e1sk\u00f3lab\u00ed\u00f3, where he took part in a multimedia master talk. The event reflected on his career in photography, music videos, and cinema, accompanied by projected images that illustrated his journey to a packed Hall 1 at H\u00e1sk\u00f3lab\u00ed\u00f3. The audience was then given the chance to ask questions before the session concluded. \n\nCorbijn departed Iceland this morning after eventful and busy days as RIFF\u2019s honorary guest.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Afhending hei\u00f0ursver\u00f0launa Al\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0legrar kvikmyndah\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0ar \u00ed Reykjav\u00edk f\u00f3r fram \u00e1 Bessast\u00f6\u00f0um s\u00ed\u00f0degis \u00ed g\u00e6r, a\u00f0 vi\u00f0st\u00f6ddum bo\u00f0sgestum. Halla T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir, forseti \u00cdslands, afhenti hollenska leikstj\u00f3ranum og lj\u00f3smyndaranum Anton Corbijn hei\u00f0ursver\u00f0laun RIFF fyrir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":993,"featured_media":65515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65514"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65535,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65514\/revisions\/65535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}