EGGERT KETILSSON (ICELAND)
Draughtsman & Production Designer
Draughtsman & Production Designer
Eggert Ketilsson was our hero in Vilnius, Lithuania (2017) and Turin, Italy (2018).
Eggert Ketilsson is a well-known production designer, art director and a special effects supervisor. He was born and raised in Iceland and after ten years of film work he went to study at the The Northen Film School, in the United Kingdom, where he got a production designer´s post graduate diploma. Today Ketilsson is one of Iceland’s most experienced artists in the world of cinema. At the beginning of his career, Ketilsson worked a lot with movies closely revealing nature, such as „Devil‘s Island“ (1996) ,,On Top Down Under“ (2000). Later his work led him to many other well known movies and today his filmography impressive. His latest job as supervising art director on Christophers Nolans ,Dunkirk” (2017), is the third film Ketilsson works on with Nolan. The first movie was ,,Batman Begins” (2005) – where a part was filmed in Iceland. Ketilsson joined as the art director of this part and that is how he came to know Nolan and his designer Nathan Crowley. Some years later Nolan and Crowley scouted Iceland for the planetary locations for his film Interstellar (2014) and asked Ketilsson to join as the art director for the planet section of the film. His experience of working with sets facing the elements of nature, play one of the reasons Nolan wanted him to join ,,Dunkirk” that was released recently and is already mentioned as a masterpiece. Besides his good collaboration with Nolan, Ketilsson has worked on other well known movies, such as ,,The secret life of Walter Mitty” (2013) directed by Ben Stiller, ,,Lara Croft: Tomb Rider” (2001) directed by Simon West, ,,Prometheus“(2012) directed by Ridley Scott, „Rouge one“ (2016) directed by Gareth Edwards , „Flags of our fathers“ (2006) directed by Clint Eastwood, Journey to the Center of the Earth“ (2008) directed by Eric Brevig and many other well known titles. |