Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1968-01-01 (57 years old)

Place of Birth

Reykjavik, Iceland

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon

Biography

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, to an Icelandic father who was a playwright, film and theatre director and a Siberian-Yakutian mother who is an actress and visual artist. Magnusson's mother graduated from the acting school GITIS in Moscow and his father graduated from the legendary film school VGIK where his parents actually first met. They moved to Reykjavik, Iceland from Moscow in 1966 after his father lost faith in the utopian dream of the USSR. Magnússon lived in Aarhus, Danmark 1979-83. He moved to Paris in 1989, studied at the Sorbonne University 1989-90. He earned a BFA in fine arts from Parsons Paris Sch...

Production

2011

Little Cosmonaut

as Director

2011

2011

Little Cosmonaut

as Producer

2005

2005

Screaming Masterpiece

as Executive Producer

2024

Epilogues

as Director

2024

Epilogues

as Writer

1998

Slurpinn & Co.

as Production Assistant

2006

2006

She Talks Icelandic

as Screenplay

2006

2002

Possibihilities

as Director

2002

Possibihilities

as Screenplay

2002

Possibihilities

as Producer

2009

The Word Music: Jorunn Vidar

as Director of Photography

2009

2010

Imagine Peace

as Director

2010

Imagine Peace

as Screenplay

2010

Imagine Peace

as Producer

2010

As If We Existed

as Co-Producer

2016

Poor Iceland

as Director

2016

Poor Iceland

as Screenplay

2016

Poor Iceland

as Director of Photography

2016

Poor Iceland

as Producer

2018

Mihkel

as Director

2018

Mihkel

as Writer

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