{"id":27788,"date":"2025-01-13T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27788"},"modified":"2025-09-19T23:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:26:02","slug":"end-of-summer-by-johann-johannsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/01\/13\/end-of-summer-by-johann-johannsson\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Summer by J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Where is the summer, the unimaginable
\nZero summer?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TS Eliot’s question from Four Quartets<\/em> always comes to mind when the weather here is as cold as it has been for the past week, with snow turning into ice that lingers for days. There isn’t much snow in J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson’s End of Summer<\/em><\/a> (2015) although summer or not it’s still there on the hills, and we do see a number of icebergs, the film having been shot in and around the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. I don’t know why J\u00f3hannsson decided to visit such a remote place, where the human population is outnumbered by seals and penguins, and the landscape isn’t so very different from J\u00f3hannsson’s Icelandic home. The 8mm footage that he returned with is scored by a composition which J\u00f3hannsson performs along with Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. Musically, there’s continuity with the film scores that J\u00f3hannsson wrote before and after this one, especially those that feature Lowe’s voice and Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir’s cello. Visually, the film anticipates the monochrome views of J\u00f3hannsson’s Last and First Men<\/em>, especially the shots of monumental icebergs which are paired with Lowe’s vocalisations. As a self-contained work, Last and First Men<\/em> is a lot more confident and successful than End of Summer<\/em> which doesn’t amount to much more than a travelogue. Taken together the two films show enough of J\u00f3hannsson’s intentions as a film-maker to keep me wondering where he might have gone next in this medium.<\/p>\n

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Where is the summer, the unimaginable Zero summer? TS Eliot’s question from Four Quartets always comes to mind when the weather here is as cold as it has been for the past week, with snow turning into ice that lingers for days. There isn’t much snow in J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson’s End of Summer (2015) although summer … Continue reading “End of Summer by J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: End of Summer by J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[10081,7864,7237,468],"class_list":["post-27788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-music","tag-hildur-gudnadottir","tag-johann-johannsson","tag-robert-aiki-aubrey-lowe","tag-ts-eliot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7ec","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}