þorbjörg Jónsdóttir

EINKOFI Director - ALDA

Thorbjorg Jonsdottir is a filmmaker and video artist from Iceland whose works contemplate ethnographic narratives via abstract formalism, discerning preternatural states in which oral-mythology and landscapes collide. She holds a MFA degree in filmmaking from California Institute of the Arts and a BA in visual arts from the Iceland University of the Arts. Her films have screened in galleries and the film festival circuit in Europe, Asia and the United States. Thorbjorg’s most recent short documentary KONNI (2023, do-directed with Lee Lynch) was nominated for the EDDA, the Icelandic Film Award. Her short documentary “A Tree is Like a Man” (2019) premiered at CPH:DOX where it competed in the NEXT:WAVE section and went on to be shown at festivals around the world.

She is currently in pre-production of her first feature length documentary, to be shot in the Colombian Amazon, and in production of the revistionist historical film "In the Land of Meadows", co-directed with Lee Lynch.