Stuttfilmspresentatiónir av føroyskum listafólkum m.a.

Deep down, inside our bodies, lives the soul. No one has ever seen it, but we all know it's there. There is a 'soul bird' who lives inside us all. Tróndur Patursson is a Faroese artist, who has become famous for his trademark stained glass birds.

Hesin stuttfilmurin um listamannin Tróndu Patursson er framleiddur av Green Renaissance, t.e. m.a. Michael Raimondo og Justine du Toit, ið eru úr Cape Town í Suðurafrika og sum í filmum lýsa eldsálir kring allan heim. Fleiri av filmunum eru um føroysk lista- og mentafólk, t.d. Rakel Helmsdal, Ole Jacob Nielsen, Eva á Stóra Dímun, Tróndur Patursson, Brandur Patursson, Borgný Patursson, Astrid Andreasen, Ingi Sørensen, Livar Nystedt og nakrar havsvimjifrýr, Ingrid og Eileen. Filmarnir eru stuttar presentatiónir av fólkum, teirra hugskotum og tí, tey brenna fyri. Filmarnir eru vakrir við flottum náttúrumyndum, men við denti á menniskju og teirra tankar, og tað er gott! Filmarnir eru fíggjaðir gjøgnum crowd funding m.a. - sí meira her: https://www.greenrenaissance.co.za/?fbclid=IwAR25x7cmXsmxWHn9GRo1NiYR_1mai3C_vJWoHKhNCYZmLNY_rMn6SlaEkqo

To be bored is a terrible waste of time. There is so much for us to experience, to learn, to do. Astrid believes in keeping the old traditions of handicraft alive, by knitting, spinning and weaving, and also creating her own artworks. She even tries to convince her husband to knit instead of watching TV.

For young people today, there is a lot of pressure to conform - worrying about how they look, what they wear... It is important that we learn to focus on the the REAL beauty of a person - the beauty that goes far beyond the physical appearance - the inner beauty.

Eva and her family live an isolated life on the remote island of Stóra Dímun, in the middle of the North Atlantic Sea. While they are geographically isolated, they never feel lonely. 'Loneliness is not dependent on if you are alone or have people around you. It's a feeling you have inside.'

'If you are not a reader, you have only one life. But if you are a reader, you have a million lives.' Rakel believes that one life is not enough. The span of years and hours and seconds that makes up her life, do not give her the time to experience all that she would like to.

"I lost about 70% of my eyesight in my right eye. I started understanding more about what it is to see - you are seeing with your eyes, but how you perceive things is actually what has any meaning." - Brandur Patturson Brandur is an artist from the Faroe Islands who works with light.

Anna Louisa looks after the rarest breed of horses in the world - the Faroese Pony. In the 1960's there were only 5 horses left. But thanks to the dedication and determination of a small group people, their numbers have started rising again. 'To live a very long life, that is not important.