No Tomorrow

No Tomorrow — Plot

No Tomorrow is a new video installation by Kjartansson, choreographer Margrét Bjarnadóttir, and composer Bryce Dessner. Spanning six screens that encircle the room, the installation surrounds viewers with a performance of spatial music written for eight dancers with eight guitars. Recorded from the center of the performers’ space, the installation is kaleidoscopic, capturing the dancers as they weave within each screen and across the channels; their movements and melodies ranging from pastorale to rock and roll. Combining a variety of classic Western references – blue jeans and white t-shirts, the draped silk curtains of mid-20th century song and dance films, as well as lyrics drawn from the Archaic Greek poet Sappho and adventurer Vivant Denon, two sensualists millennia apart – the work spins notions of idealization and iconography.

• Release date
• October 29, 2022
• Runtime
• 30 min
• Genres
• Music, Documentary
• Director
• Ragnar Kjartansson

No Tomorrow — Cast

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Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir Dancer

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Anais Barthe Dancer

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Elín Signý Ragnarsdóttir Dancer Halla Thordardottir Dancer

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Heba Eir Kjeld Dancer

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Hjördís Lilja Örnólfsdóttir Dancer

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Inga Maren Rúnarsdóttir Dancer

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Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir Dancer