The Day Iceland Stood Still

synopsis

The Red Stockings are pioneers of the feminist movement in Iceland. In the 1970s, they crucified a mannequin of a tired housewife on a Christmas tree, brought a live cow to a beauty queen pageant or initiated a mass strike by women across the country. Iceland thus discovered in October 1975 what happens when women leave their homes and jobs and take a day off. The humorous and serious accounts of the strikers, interspersed with Joel Orloff's animations and the closing track by Bjōrk, provide a cathartic testimony to civic awakening and the power of a collective voice to change society.

“If you don’t tell this story, it never happened. This is the last chance for the women to put it in their own words, which are so powerful – as opposed to someone sometime in the future writing something based on archival material.”

Source quote: Original CIN

biography

Pamela Hogan is an independent American filmmaker, producer and journalist. She works on the struggle for women's rights. She has directed Looks Like Laury Sounds Like Laury from the television documentary series America Reframed and I Came to Testify from the Women War & Peace series. She co-created Ladies First from Wide Angle, a series about women in leadership positions in contemporary Rwanda.

more about film

director:	Pamela Hogan
producer:	Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir
script:	Pamela Hogan, Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir
photography:	Helgi Felixson
editing:	Kate Taverna
sound design:	Bergur Prison

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