Julius Pollux
composes, records and plays music.news
summer 2025:
The three piece documentary series ‘World White Hate’ that I composed the music for, will be aired on french-german tv channel arte on july 8th.
Also: New music and upcoming tour with BSÍ through germany/czech republic/slovakia/austria in july.
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winter/spring 2024/2025:
happy to be invited to this year’s edition of Berlinale Talents
& No Other Land won the Oscar for Best Documentary!
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spring/summer 2024:
there are new releases from both Vil & BSÍ
also: music for a new dance piece by Klāvs Liepiņš
& No Other Land is touring festivals internationally, + the film music was awarded the “Prix Cinéma Petru Mari - RCFM” at Arte Mare Festival Du Film Méditerranéen
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autumn/winter 2023/2024:
composing and recording film music for No Other Land, a documentary by israeli & palestinian filmmakers Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal.
World premiere: Berlinale, 74. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2024
– the film won the Berlinale Documentary Award and the Panorama Audience Award!
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spring/summer 2023:
working on music for a new dance piece by choreographer Klāvs Liepiņš.
created a sound installation for Memento, a site-specific artwork by artist duo Harrie Liveart, exhibited at Chappe Museum, Tammisaari, Finland.
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winter 2022/2023:
collaboration with Sigurlaug Thorarensen on the score
for “Sprich mit mir”, feature film by Janin Halisch.
Premiere at Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken
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autumn 2022:
final stop of an exciting and eventful year for BSÍ: we played a live session for the wonderful people at KEXP in Seattle. You can watch it HERE
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winter/spring 2021/2022:
composing and recording the score for “Power of Love” (StickUp Filmproduktion, RBB & Arte), second feature film by Jonas Rothlaender
Premiere at Rakkautta & Anarkiaa, Helsinki International Film Festival
film music (selection)
No Other Land
documentary
directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal
production: Yabaya Media, Antipode Films
premiere: Berlinale, 74. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2024
2024
Sprich mit mir
(in collaboration with Sigurlaug Thorarensen)
feature film
directed by Janin Halisch
production: DFFB, RBB
premiere: Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken
2023
Power of Love
feature film
directed by Jonas Rothlaender
production: StickUp Filmproduktion, RBB & Arte
premiere: Rakkautta & Anarkiaa, Helsinki International Film Festival
2023
Hegn/Fence
(in collaboration with Sigurlaug Thorarensen)
short film
directed by Hilke Rönnfeldt
production: Super16, Astar Film, North Ship Film
2021
Wet Cement
short film
directed by Klāvs Liepiņš
2017
other compositions & collaborations (selection)
Vestur í bláinn
album release & art exhibition
a multidisciplinary music and art project on immigration in Iceland, in collaboration with Claire Paugam
juliuspollux.bandcamp.com
covid concert stream: https://youtu.be/TjzvBdPeGU8 2020
Homeland
Research collaboration with Erik DeLuca, exhibition at Kling& Bang, Reykjavík, August 21st - October 3rd, 2021.
Erik writes: “This project is about immigration policy, transnational migration, the politics of forgetting, Jewish diaspora, and Holocaust education. Most importantly, this project has been my vessel to desire unknowable stories related to my identity.
‘We were told to forget; and we forgot quicker than anybody ever could imagine.’ – Hannah Arendt”
Music for brain surgeons
Improvised live performance with Ægir Sindri Bjarnason
at Raflost X RASK Festival in Reykjavík.
2020
Satomis Geheimnis
Radio play - musical score
directed by Jonas Rothlaender
SWR2 (Germany), 2018
A minor unknown
Interactive sound installation
Exhibition: Lots of tiny people
Gerðarsafn, Iceland, 2019
Winterdagen - Foarlôn
collaborative album/project/concert with Mink Steekelenburg’s Winterdagen
commissioned by Oerol Festival, Terschelling/Netherlands
2018
Practical Latvian
Music for a dance performance
choreography: Klāvs Liepiņš, 2018
band projects
BSÍ
– Lo-fi krútt popp pönk, traffic & riot & feminism,
with Sigurlaug Thorarensen
Vil
– Gloomy experiments, long-distance collaboration in between Denmark and Iceland,
with Lovis Bechmann
Laura Secord
– More Agitated Icelandic Outsider Rock Poetry,
with Alison MacNeil, Erik DeLuca & Ægir Sindri Bjarnason
Stormy Daniels
– Punk band, teenage dreams! takk fyrir ekkert!
with Salvör Gullbrá, Óðinn Dagur Bjarnason & Ægir Sindri Bjarnason
Mount Theodore
– A journal in songs, a journey with guests, a diary of bedroom-recorded songs
about
Julius Pollux Rothlaender (*1988, Lübeck/Germany) is a musician and composer based in Iceland, mainland Europe and elsewhere. Alongside his solo and band projects he also works on music for film, art installations, performances, and radio.
With listening being his most important instrument, Julius Pollux has over the last years been diving into experiments that combine music and spoken word, exploring other elements of the human voice, of expression and contemplation within music.
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– Julius Pollux Rothlaender, Reykjavík/Berlin, 2025 Julius Rothlaender