: A Very Personal Approach to the History of Icelandic Cinema Ágúst Guðmundsson is the awarding-winning maker of seven feature films and the television series Nonni and Manni, which Knowledge Network aired some years ago. He’s the director of the Federation of Icelandic Artists. The history of Icelandic films is the subject of this talk. These form a varied group—but then so do their directors and these artists have received their film training in many different centres: in their works diverse influences blend with the characteristics of a small nation which until recently had lived in isolation from the world. Two of Ágústʼs films, The Dance and The Seagullʼs Laughter were featured as double bill at Cinecenta at UVic—with Ágúst in attendance to introduce them—on Thursday 5 June.