Jón Bjarki Magnússon

Jón Bjarki Magnússon is an anthropological filmmaker with background in journalism and poetry. He studied creative writing at the University of Iceland and received his MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität, Berlin, in 2018. His works include award-winning journalism, a book of poetry, and a short film, Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (2018), which was awarded for ‘the most outstanding short film on social, cultural and biological anthropology or archaeology’ in 2019. Jón Bjarki´s journalistic work has appeared on various international media platforms. He is a regular contributor to the Icelandic bi-weekly newspaper Stundin, he does project work for Filmmaking For Fieldwork (F4F™) and he is the founder of SKAK BÍÓFILM.