Poor Iceland (2016)
When the Icelandic banks collapsed in the autum of 2008, taking most of the economy down with them, Ari Alexander took his camera and started to film what was happening in this tiny but relatively stable and affluent society. He filmed the ever-larger protests that in the end led to the downfall of the government. He took interviews with people shocked and confused by what was going on around them. He went to conferences and seminars where scholars tired to work out what had happened and what should happen next. He followed the endless debates and negotiations around the Icesave-accounts set up by Icelandic banks abroad. Every day brought fresh news of the complicated and often illegal deals made by financiers and bankers in the years leading up to the collapse.
Director:
Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon
Writers:
Jón Proppé, Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon.
| Camera | Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Jón Proppé | Screenplay |
| Production | Jón Proppé | Producer |
| Sound | Hallur Ingólfsson | Sound Designer |
| Camera | Tómas Örn Tómasson | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon | Screenplay |
| Production | Guðbergur Davíðsson | Producer |
| Camera | Bjarni Felix Bjarnason | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon | Director |
| Editing | Frosti Jón Runólfsson | Editor |
| Production | Benedikt Erlingsson | Producer |
| Production | Magnús Árni Skúlason | Producer |
| Sound | Frosti Jón Runólfsson | Music |
| Production | Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon | Producer |
| Sound | Bjarni Sigurðarson | Music |
