'I Send You This Place' is a beautiful, life-affirming documentary of a woman in search of her brother. The setting is surreal- where glaciers are more common than billboards and inhabitants have been known to speak to mountains. The design and filmmaking couple Andrea Sisson & Peter Ohs, stretch their roots across the North Atlantic and plant them in Iceland where they're called to confront their limitations and follow their obsessions. As the nature of the island rapidly uncovers new perspectives on the human condition, the process of diagnosis, and the power of thought, Andrea begins to find her brother amid the ranting wind, grandiose clouds, and bi-polarized sun. The island itself becomes a new model in which to study these symptoms and to shape one’s perspective – seeking to find the ability in all problematic situations and personal challenges.
When they arrive back in the States, the couple is confronted with a world where the sky is simply not as big and not as blue. How can they bring the experiences, the perspectives, the strength, and the clarity of the place they had just come from - back to this culture, this land, and these people?
A truly visual experience, the film brings its audience into an expansive world of limitless space, personified mountains, rose-filled horizons, towering waves, and uncontrollable winds. Meticulously edited and scored, the film unites image and sound with emotion and thought. It is deeply weighted as it floats, soothing as it crashes, rising as it sets - as wonderfully bi-polar as the country it was filmed in.
A Lauren Edward Production
Directed, Filmed and Edited by Andrea Sisson & Peter Ohs
Music Composed, Performed, Recorded and Arranged by Andrea Sisson & Peter Ohs
Featuring Friðgeir Einarsson & the children of Sólstafir Kindergarten
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