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HATARI HATER
Hatari is a meaningless flag.
Hatari is a silent alarm.
Hatari is a lament that is screamed into the wind.
Hatari is a spectacular reception.
Hatari is an unwritten diagnosis.
Hatari is salt in our wounds.
Hatari is a mediation of the mediocre.
Hatari is a lone dancer.
Hatari is a delayed oblivion.
Hatari is a relentless scam.
Yes, I think, yep.
I think I like it.
A SONG CALLED HATE
We've known each other since we were small kids,
because we're cousins.
FOUNDING MEMBER OF HATARI We've always had this kind of special connection
where we get this very natural
and unforced flow
of thought between each other.
He's more calm and collected.
He has such a good connection with language
and conveying his thoughts and emotions.
I'm more physical; more emotional than Matti.
Or, I express more emotion than Matthías.
It started in a high school drama club setting
FOUNDING MEMBER OF HATARI
and then in... a circle of young people
here in Iceland doing poetry readings
and poetry events and publications.
And then just fiddling around with Klemens.
He was always in bands and stuff.
There had been no idea of creating a band
or to bring a message until, I think, we started
a kind of multimedia project
and art performance,
industrial-bondage band, Hatari.
I had just started making electronic music.
It was just this kind of click of a second
where I was like, ''Hey, Matthías!
''You should scream something over this.''
We are Hatari.
We're going to do one last song.
But first I have to say,
I have never seen such a repulsive gathering of people.
♪ Skeletal beggars! ♪
♪ Unite ♪
And I think the first lyrics he screamed was like,
''botnleðja samfélagsins lekur yfir tærnar þínar.''
Like, the bottom mud of society
leaks over the toes of you
or, the toes of people.
And that's where the spark of the concept
around Hatari began.
Where we suddenly had a platform to express ourselves
towards our surroundings and the society we lived within.
And kind of this frustration of living
in a normalised society
which is completely and utterly absurd.
♪ You are so thoroughly ♪
♪ solidly stuck ♪
Rebelling is just a healthy part of growing up.
But then you get more oriented with your world views
and your political stances.
That can sometimes become a source of outrage.
I think that's where this character
I do in Hatari comes from, in many ways.
Even though it's framed as a political burst of outrage.
It's also just a personal mode of expression.
♪ The years slip from you ♪
♪ Like breadcrumbs tossed in the trash ♪
♪ They pile up on the heaps of broken dreams ♪
♪ You look back and think ♪
♪ Why did I sell myself ♪
I think it was in the summer of 2015
when Klemens first showed me
FOUNDING MEMBER OF HATARI
some of these recordings
and I thought it was pretty funny
and original.
Not that great, but definitely interesting
and something that I wanted to get involved with.
And in 2016, we started playing our first shows together
and started creating a bit of a hype
in the underground music scene in Reykjavik.
At every point, when there's a new idea with Hatari,
where it could be taken, what we could do with it,
fantasising about what the fuck we're doing.
There's this euphoria of just...
it has to keep going somehow.
Therein is the drive.
There's this added tension of responsibility, almost,
because we've sort of claimed to be campaigning
for all these noble causes,
yet we're on this hysterically absurd track
that we just love to take further and further
just for its own sake.
We've worked a lot with the contradiction
of being an anti-capitalistic band
that participates in a capitalistic environment.
So we felt Eurovision was a, sort of,
a very interesting path,
going a completely different way
to what people expect of us.
The Eurovision Song Contest is
one of the biggest stages in the world.
And we knew that if we were going to fuck around with that
we were gonna need a bigger team.
Sólbjört, our choreographer
got Andrean and Ástrós involved.
Karen, she's our costume designer
and she brought Andri onboard.
We set up our own media platform.
Iceland Music News, run by Geinar, Hákon, and Vigdís.
Baldvin, he does our videos
and Ingi takes care of our graphic identity.
I think it must have started
like most art projects.
CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
Most art projects are basically
jokes gone too far.
And I think that's how this must have started.
Wow, wouldn't that be funny
if we went for this Eurovision, and ha ha -
and it would go to Tel Aviv and all that stuff.
And then, I guess the joke must have started to take form.
I think when they got that song they realised,
''okay, we've got something going on.''
Because it's a really good pop song.
That's at the core of this matter.
I think that's a very important thing.
It won because it was damn good pop.
♪ Debauchery unconstrained ♪
♪ Hangover uncontained ♪
♪ Life's purposeless confusion ♪
♪ The void will swallow all ♪
♪ Hate will prevail ♪
♪ Every joy derail ♪
♪ Just treacherous illusion ♪
♪ Fraud, futility ♪
♪ All that I saw ♪
♪ Tears ran raw ♪
♪ All that I gave ♪
♪ That I once gave ♪
♪ I gave you all ♪
♪ Universal obfuscation ♪
♪ Unilateral execration ♪
♪ From gullible delusion ♪
♪ Escape will be curtailed ♪
Preparations for the competition
are going according to plan.
♪ The void will swallow all ♪
♪ Hate will prevail ♪
♪ And Europe's heart impale ♪
♪ Burn off the web of lies ♪
Hate will prevail.
Icelandic Song Contest 2019
Let's get a drum-roll going.
Stamp your feet, drum-roll please...
The winning song in 2019,
going straight to Tel Aviv is...
''Hate Will Prevail!''
Dear Icelanders, thank you for your trust.
We will devote ourselves to this task with courage
and we will put issues that matter on the agenda.
Thank you.
I was very happy.
I went outside and screamed.
How did you scream?
HATARI WIN ICELAND'S TICKET FOR EUROVISION
MAJOTIRY OF ICELAND DOES NOT SUPPORT HATARI'S POLITICAL AGENDA!
ICELAND PROVOKES ISRAEL WITH FUCKFINGER
SCANDAL AT EUROVISION? AN ANTI-ISRAELI BAND WILL REPRESENT ICELAND
EUROVISION: ICELAND EMBRACES HATARI'S BLEAK MESSAGE FOR ISRAEL CONTEST
ISRAEL COULD BAN ICELANDIC 'ANTI-CAPITALIST BDSM TECHNO BAND' HATARI FROM EUROVISION
PALESTINIANS CALL ON ICELAND'S EUROVISION CONTESTANT HATARI TO WITHDRAW
ICELAND'S HATARI: 'AT EUROVISION, WE'RE THE PINK ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM'
If Eurovision 2019 is not a political affair,
then the Likud party is a pop band
and Netanyahu is the lead singer.
We're coming from our own bubble
and we wanted to see things from a different perspective.
So we got into contact with both
Israeli and Palestinian artists
and that's how we got into contact with Bashar Murad.
Hi!
- Hi! - Hi!
Very nice to meet you.
I'm Matthías.
PALESTINIAN MUSICIAN
I'm Klemens.
I am Bashar.
I've always known about Eurovision
but in the Palestinian community
it's not like, you know, a huge event.
My family has a non-profit music
and government organisation, and nine years ago
we tried to get Palestine into Eurovision.
And we did a huge campaign and...
my mum was actually in charge of this
and she travelled to Finland during Eurovision
and she held the Palestinian flag at the event.
And then they banned the Palestinian flag, after that.
It was after that?
Yeah, okay, wow.
Actually, since I was younger,
I always imagined that I'd be the first
Palestinian person representing Palestine
if we were ever accepted to be in it.
Now it's a very... tricky situation
with it being hosted in Tel Aviv.
How do you feel about it?
It's so full of contradictions for me.
And there's been a very heated conversation
about it here in Iceland.
Because BDS asked for--
- a boycott, obviously. - a boycott of Eurovision.
Or rather, put a lot of pressure
on the national broadcaster here
to just skip the competition
- this year. - Not air it, right?
Yeah, there were 30,000 signatures.
Which is a big portion of the population.
I think it's great that you guys
are using this platform to make some sort of statement.
Do you have any ideas yet?
Politics isn't something confined
PRIME MINISTER OF ICELAND to parliamentarians or ministers.
Politics is for everyday people;
it's for artists,
it's for people doing all sorts of jobs;
people making documentaries and movies.
People are allowed to have their political opinions
and when we come to artists,
I think they have a really special freedom
to use all sorts of strategies
to mediate those opinions.
We have to remember...
both Israel and Eurovision
are here because of the Second World War.
So we're basically dealing with the Second World War here.
And there's consequences.
RADIOHEAD PERFORM IN ISRAEL DESPITE OPPOSITION FROM ACTIVISTS
BBC SHOULD BOYCOTT EUROVISION IN ISRAEL, SAY ROGER WATERS, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD AND MORE
NICK CAVE: CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL IS 'COWARDLY AND SHAMEFUL'
BBC REJECTS CALL TO URGE RELOCATING EUROVISION FROM ISRAEL
ISRAELI HEAVY METAL BAND ORPHANED LAND: 'THE BOYCOTT
IS A GREAT EXCUSE FOR ANTISEMITES TO JUMP ON BOARD''
ROGER WATERS: MADONNA, DON'T PLAY TEL AVIV
'BOYCOTTING EUROVISION IN ISRAEL IS NOT THE ANSWER,'
SAY STARTS SUCH AS STEPHEN FRY AND SHARON OSBORNE
PALESTINIANS ARE CALLING ON ALL EUROVISION CONTESTANTS TO WITHDRAW
We see Eurovision as dancing on Palestinian graves.
If you really want to be apolitical,
which sounds really ironic, it's as political as it gets.
But regardless, if you want to be apolitical,
BDS CO-FOUNDER (BOYCOTT DIVESTMENT SANCTIONS) don't hold Eurovision in a state
that is guilty of apartheid, occupation
and ethnic cleansing.
So that's a political statement in itself?
That's a very political statement in itself.
We address our statement to Benjamin Netanyahu,
Prime Minister of Israel
and Chairman of the Likud-National Liberal Movement.
We, members of Hatari hereby challenge you
to a friendly match of traditional Icelandic
trouser-grip wrestling, or Glíma.
Now Matthías Haraldsson,
a member of the band Hatari.
And his first conversation with the Israeli press;
talking about the public and media pressure
on them to boycott Eurovision.
Iceland is one of the two countries
in Western Europe who recognise Palestine as a state.
There's a lot of pressure here in Iceland
to boycott this competition.
We thought maybe we can take part and criticise
the Israeli government with discussion,
with art, with ideas, rather than boycotting.
He actually says, ''We're pro-Israelis
''you should thank us for coming!''
Yeah, right!
We were told that 200 million people
could watch Eurovision and I do want people's minds
to take them outside of the Eurovision bubble
just for a minute
and think about the context.
I've always had this shield, I would say, with Hatari.
It's a costume.
For example, just how we behave in the media
has kind of changed that because we're letting it
a bit closer to ourselves;
we're speaking with a bit more sincerity
to, I guess, the public and the media
but still in this costume.
We're still on these terms, that we are Hatari.
So, there's a little bit more of Matthías and Klemens
and Einar being brought forward in the guise of Hatari
but that has brought with it a more
kind of intimate, intertwined;
it's a bit more mixed up.
That makes it easier to take things personally.
That makes it easier to be nervous
about people's reactions or expectations.
REYKJAVIC ICELAND LONDON ENGLAND TEL AVIV ISRAEL
PROMO TOUR
I'm feeling uncertain about the outcomes
and the effects, I guess.
Often we ask ourselves, ''what are we even doing?''
Being a pop star, or whatever,
never really was the goal, or wanted beforehand.
So, one of the most talked about acts
at Eurovision this year is these guys.
Hatari, from Iceland.
I think Hatari? Is that right?
Hatari? Hatari? Something like that.
They are friendlier than they look, I promise.
It's good that you say that we're friendlier than we look
it makes us more approachable.
LONDON ENGLAND MADRID SPAIN
WELCOME PRE PARTY
Iceland, Hatari;
''Hate Will Prevail''
Even though we're critical of your government and stuff,
it's never the idea to make life hard for you, or anyone.
No, and it's not a part of this competition.
ISRAELI CONTESTANT It's about art and music
and I love you guys because I got the chance
to talk to you before.
Everyone expects us to be, like, really angry.
- Yeah, yes. - Yeah, basically.
Yeah, but it's good, because it means your art works.
Hi guys!
I really, really, really want to go to Iceland.
- Don't go to the Blue Lagoon. - No?
- No. - No...
Yeah, you should go.
It is quite the experience.
Okay, I don't know.
SPANISH CONTESTANT I love the nature and the mountains
and green parts.
You've got a lot of this.
Yeah, we have a lot of nature,
not a lot of trees, some elves.
In art, good intentions
are not of the smallest value.
All bad is the result of good intention.
And Oscar Wilde wrote that in Reading jail.
Like, in solitary confinement for two years;
it was not something witty he said in a drawing room.
''In art, good intentions
are not of the smallest value.''
I think that's so powerful
and I think that's also what I talked about
with Matthías and Klemens when we met.
That the power of this is that it's...
they don't understand it themselves.
I mean, people were like, ''What?!
''Why is Hatari going there?
''They have no idea what they're doing!''
Of course you sort of have no idea what you're doing.
And that's what we can allow ourselves as artists.
Can you imagine the end of the world?
Can you imagine the end of capitalism?
Which is harder to imagine?
I don't feel like I'm representing a generation.
That's for someone else to say;
who represents our generation.
CLIMATE EMERGENCY
REBEL FOR LIFE
You're always doing the wrong thing
and they came under so much fire
for participating and not boycotting.
SAVE MOTHER EARTH Which is understandable
but there comes the art twist
which is like, it was just too exciting.
Not, you know, why chicken out?
It was just exciting to do this.
Usually, we start off
with some kind of concepts or idea
and develop it to a certain point
and then we don't usually know when to stop.
I don't see why we should stop now.
Greetings Europe.
We look forward to addressing you in Tel Aviv.
As the continent crumbles,
remember to love one another before hatred prevails.
REYKJAVIK ICELAND
TEL AVIV ISRAEL
Three, two, one, go!
Great!
Can I ask you to take one more photo?
WELCOME TO TEL AVIV
It's the 4th of May, 2019.
''ART SAVES US FROM THE TRUTH''
We're in the Dan Panorama hotel, in Tel Aviv.
We just arrived last night.
Bashar is gonna take us to Hebron today.
He's gonna show us what he feels is important
that we see, from his point of view.
TEL AVIV ISRAEL
HEBRON PALESTINE
Okay, everyone, welcome to Hebron.
My name is Abdallah
and I've been living in this city since 2002.
The first thing you should know about Hebron today;
this district is considered
the biggest one in the West Bank.
All together, it's called Hebron District.
Unfortunately, today it suffers from the four
Israeli settlements located in the middle of the city,
two huge military bases,
and one Israeli Yeshiva school for settlers too.
So, expect to get stopped by soldiers
asking you about your nationality,
PALESTINIAN GUIDE your race and your religion
because according to this,
they will decide how they will treat you
and if you are allowed to walk in the same street
as settlers, or not.
What do you want?
It's a TV show?
Yes, they want to go to the Cave of Patriarchs
but from this street because it's easiest.
Yeah, they are foreigners, they can go
but I will not continue with them.
I know the rules.
You have to be creative in this city.
- The camera? - Camera?
Okay, we will not cross
but we will walk a little bit here.
You can go straight
A little bit, but I can't continue at that point.
Okay.
So there's no businesses allowed?
No businesses allowed in this area.
So the H2 area is almost like
H1 PALESTINIAN CONTROL a strategical pathway between the settlements?
Exactly.
H2 ISRAELI CONTROL Because all the settlements located in H2 area
- in different parts. - Yeah.
The only way to link those settlements together
is by shutting down this street.
And if you want to see where the Palestinians are living
you need only to look at the windows.
ARABS ARE PROHIBITED THIS IS APARTHEID
The third part of the Israeli plan
was to expand with the settlements
outside the city borders.
From that year until today, 27 Israeli settlements
were built surrounding Hebron from all directions,
in addition to almost 25 Israeli settlers' outposts.
Okay, we'll split now.
One, two, three, four.
The sound guy can go inside.
You will wait us there, and we will take
the Palestinian way to meet you there
so we can go to Al Ibrahimi Mosque together
and then we will continue through the whole city.
Can I get my ID?
- What happened? - He threw it.
He threw it down there!
I know, what can I do?
You can read about everything in the media
but it's only going to be a headline.
It's not gonna be your personal experience
with someone you're getting to know.
What picture?
What are...
This is just a film for Icelandic TV.
Icelandic Television.
He had his finger on the trigger the whole time.
Strange vibe from this dude reading his religious book.
Hi, how are you?
She says she's been to Iceland.
I've looked at your record, you're not allowed.
If you look at the windows around here,
metal, metal for protection.
What kind of macho bullshit is this?
HEBRON PALESTINE
EAST JERUSALEM PALESTINE
Yeah, it's from the film, ''Amélie.''
It's the only piece I really know.
So, we're in Bashar's studio in East Jerusalem now.
We spent the day in Hebron and we are waiting
for the guys to come and listen to the track
that we are making with Bashar
and to discuss the music video.
♪ After all this torture ♪
♪ I'm steadfast...♪
This idea of steadfastness is that,
despite all of this, we are still here.
We're still gonna keep going...
we have so much potential, I see.
Like the stuff I do with my music,
the stuff that Reem does with Trashy clothing,
with fashion, all the other people around us
who are doing these crazy things
in the middle of this crazy situation, under occupation.
They're thriving so much and I just wonder often
what it could be like if there wasn't this occupation.
You know, as Palestinians, we risk getting arrested
if we raise our own flag publicly.
This is why it's so important to me
to use symbols in our video, like the flag,
and Muftah Al 'Awda, which is the key,
the Key of Return, to emphasise our history.
And that's why for me...
I think it's the best way, to protest that way
because I think the occupation
wants us to be ashamed of who we are
and almost wants to erase our history
and make us forget who we are
and just say that we're Israeli.
EAST JERUSALEM PALESTINE
AIDA REFUGEE CAMP
BETHLEHEM PALESTINE
I feel like it's more than just a rock band
and I feel that there is a message
that we want to deliver to people
or want people to hear.
It's a message that not only we have
but a lot of people have;
that we live in strange times
ARAB ALL RACIST ARE BASTARDS
where people don't see where power lies.
Sometimes I'm thinking how it's hard for me
if I wanted to leave the camp.
PALESTINIAN GUIDE People there are like one big family.
It's because they are living the same situation.
They are in equal situation.
How many people are in this camp here?
In Aida camp there's around 6,000 inhabitants.
CHILDREN KILLED DURING ISRAELI MASSACRE
Then there's 'Azza refugee camp, there is 2,000
and in Dheisheh, as I said before, 11,000.
For those of us who don't know what the key symbolises...
When they left their houses, they took the key
KEY OF RETURN because they thought they will come back...
one week later, you know, after the war will go down.
BETHLEHEM PALESTINE
TEL AVIV ISRAEL
I'm feeling very tired.
A lot has happened in the past two days
and it's a lot to take in.
I'm looking forward to going to bed.
You're amazing Australia!
I love you, you're the best.
- Iceland. - Iceland? You're nice too.
ENTRANCE FOR BADGE HOLDERS ONLY You said that you would come out live
WHO WILL WIN THIS? with a political statement.
A, will you do that?
B, is there any effect on the rockets
DREAM being fired in the south?
What we said was we would use our agenda setting influence
that comes through participation,
or that comes through really any spectacle
that catches the public eye.
Through this agenda setting influence
we will try to uphold a critical discussion
around the context in which this contest is being held.
With whatever is happening in the south,
do you have any comment?
- Does that change anything? - So you know what,
we just really have no more time.
Allow us to finish the question.
Okay.
Artists should have freedom of expression.
- No, no, I think - be allowed to answer
Of course, but first of all
I think that they already answered
and there are laws of, you know, the timing
so they just told me to stop, so I'm just, you know,
the time is out.
So, if I get another order to continue
we can continue.
I don't know.
So what should I do?
Okay, I'm supposed to finish it, so.
We, of course, hope to see an end to the occupation
as soon as possible and that peace will come.
We are hopeful.
Thank you so much.
ICELAND EUROVISION ACT: ISRAEL IS APPARTHEID
YOYO250: HORRIBLE GROUP AND ANTISEMISTIC PEOPLE
KATY PERRY LOVER: APARTHEID? THAT'S ABSURD
We're driving to our second rehearsal on the stage
a little earlier than planned
because before our rehearsal
we have a meeting with Jon Ola Sand.
CEO of Eurovision.
We're basically being called to the principal's office.
It's important to distinguish a bit.
What we mean with a non-political event
is the three TV transmissions
and everything that's in here, in the bubble we create.
EUROVISION EXECUTIVE SUPERVISOR We have to keep that free of politics.
But there's a very thin line, isn't there?
Between being non-political
and then freedom of speech as well.
Iceland called Israel an apartheid state
and they say, as a result, they're being explicitly warned
by Eurovision and threatened with being thrown out.
No, not because of that, but because we talked to them
and we asked them not to make
political statements in here.
DELEGATION DRESSING ROOM ICELAND
We've been warned that we are--
Over the line.
- Over the line. - Really?
What did they say?
They said, ''You're over the line.''
Just, that's it?
No, they phrased it very elegantly
and they complimented our performance
and they said that of course they don't want to change
how we see the world or our life opinions
but made it very clear that we had reached the limit
of the EBU's tolerance.
Was that because you used the A-word, you said apartheid?
Yeah, I think that was the line.
I'm feeling more and more
like the black sheep here.
It's sort of like,
just obey the rules, and you will be fine.
Ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five.
I went off on a spin about how
we can play our PR game
and immediately started crying.
I think that's just when I realised
the pressure is there
and I need to maybe blow off some steam
from time to time.
I was the first Palestinian ever
to represent Israel in the Eurovision
and I am scared to say
that I probably am the last
ISRAELI EUROVISION CONTESTANT 2009 for a long time to come.
So it's funny for me
this definition of not talking politics.
What is politics?
Everything is politics.
Going to the store is politics because, you know why?
Because if on Pesach, which is Passover for the Jews,
I cannot buy bread.
That is politics.
Exactly.
Did you see that picture of the Bibi statue
in Rabin square?
- No. - This guy.
The days are hectic and busy and loaded.
I have to think twice before I say what day it is.
- Hey! - Hi!
What's up?
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
Klemens.
- Itay. - Hi.
Nice to meet you, thanks for having us.
- I'm Matthías. - Hi, Ricki.
Hi, I'm Matthías.
- Ricki. - Hi.
First we need to drink a Turkish coffee
because, you know.
Who wants coffee?
One, two, three, four.
I feel like everything we do
is a contradiction right now.
ISRAELI CONTEMPORARY ARTIST Yeah, but you like the contradiction.
Yeah, I think we're all about contradictions.
Maybe you could bring your message
it's really difficult,
as well, I try to do...but without...
making antagonism.
We went to Hebron the other day
and just seeing what is going on,
or just a small percentage of it,
it hits you emotionally
and it sort of makes it harder to keep character
and be clear on what's the right way
to perform the piece.
This would be solved.
ISRAELI MANEGER OF ITAY Nobody wants their kids dead.
No mother would've sent her kids to war.
No woman.
So, it's not that simple.
I mean, my heart goes to the Palestinian people
and my people as well.
You know we suffer...
death right now.
You know, like four people.
And it wasn't even starting with our attack.
And I understand how they do what they do.
But it's not...
It's a problem, okay?
I mean, but like I say, peace you do with your enemy.
You don't do it with friends.
It's about awareness, I think.
It's taking a different perspective
out of the box and see yourself from outside
and this is the way you look like
and that's, I hope, what these amazing guys will do soon.
A small glimpse to the people that lives here and...
in a really difficult mission to let them see themselves.
Like, Israel from outside.
It's not the story you sell to yourself.
It looks different.
You came from so far away.
You came from Iceland to here.
ISRAELI FILM DIRECTOR I can imagine that you didn't come here
in order to obey this Eurovision system.
Like, to be Eurovision soldiers.
So, I mean, you know, I never watched Eurovision
in my whole life.
I think that maybe this time I'll watch at least your song.
Even though it's supposed to be live.
It's not live?
If you do something different, they switch to a recording--
- It's a 15 second delay-- - It's like a buffer.
on the broadcast.
Can I describe one idea to you?
So, if we make it to the finals
and the track starts, and I go, ''huh!''
Like I do in the beginning, playback is going,
and I walk in the front of the stage, like I do
but then instead of singing the lyrics,
I'm just silent.
For three minutes.
And that's it.
There's just three minutes of silence
and it's broadcast live, somewhere on the Internet
so people can see that it's happening.
It's different to what's on TV.
You get the reactions of the audience
and we just stand there, all six of us,
staring at the audience.
That's great.
Very lovely.
I would love to make such a scene in my movie.
Our idea was always, for example,
to work with Bashar, work with Trashy.
We're trying to bring Palestinian artists
in the forefront of our media attention.
But then that becomes complicated
when the boycott movement
calls on them specifically
to not work with anyone to do with Eurovision
and then Hatari, in particular.
So it's like--
So now you're in conflict both with Israel
and with the BDS movement.
Basically it's a good position to annoy everyone.
It's a good position for an artist
not to satisfy neither this nor that.
Even though I knew sort of what I should expect
I kind of felt like I was gonna fly into Tel Aviv
and there I would see a cab driver,
Benjamin Netanyahu kind of waving at us,
and then BDS kind of telling us to fuck off
and then Gaza, or a representative from Gaza
and the West Bank.
I felt like it was just gonna be five people
that I was gonna go and talk to
and I thought it would be a really clear
and Hamas would be there.
But obviously it's just tonnes of regular people
living their lives and no one knew who we were.
TEL AVIV ISRAEL
EAST JERUSALEM PALESTINE
Everyone's waiting for something,
including the BDS.
They're waiting for a surprise that you will do.
And I even heard that from them.
It's a very critical time.
VOICE OF SAID MURAD BASHAR'S FATHER
It could be dangerous for Bashar.
I'm just interested to know
the danger that you would be facing.
Or like, is that then just--
You would be boycotted?
You would be boycotted in Palestine then?
Yeah, basically.
You will have many supporters.
I believe it.
You will have a lot
because you have a cause...
you have a message you are delivering.
When you come with a new idea,
with something different,
everybody attacks you.
But if you go on
if you continue
they will follow.
It would be terrible if we were responsible,
or partly responsible
for Bashar being ostracised from his own community.
Yeah, that'd be awful.
EAST JERUSALEM PALESTINE
RAMALLAH PALESTINE
Hello.
Hello, where are they from?
They're all from Iceland.
I'm from Jerusalem. Is everything OK?
- Yes. - You don't need to see ID?
What?
- You need to see ID? - No.
Thank you.
I want to take Icelandic people with me every day.
So, originally we went to meet Reem
who is a Palestinian clothing designer.
She's one of five, who co-own the brand, Trashy clothing.
They're lending us clothes for the Orange carpet.
So these are supposed to be in the back,
PALESTINIAN FASHION DESIGNER basically, it's a top.
Oh yes, this one, I'm very excited for this one.
Beautiful!
Designed after what we would call a dishdasha,
which is a very classic attire for men.
And that developed into all sorts of other meetings
with interesting people.
Why did you meet the other people, other than Reem?
That was to ask them for their support
in convincing the BDS not to turn on Bashar
if he releases a song with you.
Artists,
poets,
anybody who have an idea,
he must do his idea.
And he must have a big courage to do it.
PALESTINIAN POET
And he must be able to receive
all the contra sides.
The side effects, the critics and other opinions,
reject, refuse, etc.
I believe that if Hatari
make a big show
during Eurovision,
it will be the real show.
For me, it's a new
creative thinking
and creative position.
And I agree Bashar participate.
The poet that we met
put us in touch with a University professor
whose name is Uri David
NO PLACE LIKE HOME and he is, what did he say?
Jewish heritage but is a Palestinian.
He's married to a Palestinian woman
and is really influential.
I would love to tell you that we are
an award-winning, anti-capitalist, performance art group,
inspired by BDSM and anti-authoritarian
dystopian aesthetics, but this would, of course,
be interpreted as a highly political statement
at this point in time because we are representing
our public broadcaster.
So we would refrain from answering in more detail.
I absolutely love you.
Uri Davis made a surprise visit to our hotel last night,
which Karen and Andri met in Ramallah.
We had just arrived from the Nordic party.
I was wearing this plastic pink costume,
in some kind of weird mood after
the kind of madness that this party was
and then he kind of walks towards me in the lobby
and says, ''I've been waiting for you.''
Which just is a reminder to us
that it's not just fluff that we're doing.
He told us that he'd travelled from Ramallah
six hours to get here
and waited in the lobby for a couple of hours as well,
after we arrived back from the party.
And had brought us this letter
that he'd written to us,
to the Hatari Collective.
This had obviously been kind of lying on his conscious
and he'd been kind of studying
what we'd been saying in interviews
and seeing the possibilities of what
we could do and achieve.
Uri made this point of saying,
even if you don't win, but still intended to protest,
that's something.
And we can have it on tape that we smuggled
the keffiyeh that he gave us, this scarf,
this Palestinian sign of victory.
We are getting support from very pro-Palestinian people
and that they feel that this is the way to go.
Hello!
Hey, what's up?
Hey.
Yeah, m-hm, yes, I just want to make it clear,
none of the clothing are in?
Can you hear me?
Okay, just to make sure then, none of the clothes?
Of course, you know, I think it's a shame
because I think they look really good
and what they are telling is very important.
But this event starts, we leave in like 20 minutes.
So, yeah.
Okay, yeah, bye.
Bye-bye.
Okay, we can't use any of it.
We can't use anything from Trashy.
- Nothing? - Nothing.
Er... the jewellery is okay. They just...
Did someone order room service?
Yes, me.
So...we have to come up with something else.
They called just now,
two of their group are still really uncomfortable.
So, I can't use these trousers?
Yeah, not those.
BOYCOTT EUROVISION
EUROVISION IM NOT YOUR TOY
SONGS AND GLITTER CANNOT HIDE HOMELAND BEING OCCUPIED
Good evening, Europe!
Now, children and vegans should look away
'cause our next band is very much
into leather and BDSM in their act.
No judgement!
It's okay!
Let's make some noise for Hatari from Iceland!
HATARI ICELAND Yep, they're not disappointing this time as well.
Hello, Hatari.
Come here, we want to talk to you.
Do you talk?
We love talking and looking and all the rest.
You have your special suits, right?
Your jumpsuits?
If I want one, how can I get it?
HATARI ICELAND
- merch.hatari.is - Okay!
- You know, it's not cheap-- - It's not cheap?
- to bring down capitalism. - Okay, yeah, I understand.
I think we need to say goodbye.
Thank you, you're brilliant.
Have good luck and enjoy.
What's your message with all this look?
Well, our message, or we feel our performance,
or our song is a dystopia and it's a reflection
on power and powerlessness, hope and hopelessness
and if we don't unite or form peace,
then hate will prevail.
Strong words brother.
- Strong words. - Strong message.
Thank you, goodbye!
It was a huge relief when he told me
that people like Uri Davis
and Bashar's dad
were understanding what we were trying to achieve.
They felt it was important to continue.
We went quite political early on.
The reality of being here was so urgent
after we arrived, so in a way, it was just a response
to mention the apartheid and the occupation.
Okay, I mean seriously, the outfits!
The high heels!
The glitter!
The dresses!
The leather!
Where's Iceland?
Could we smile at some point?
No, no smiles?
Okay, maybe at the end.
Please welcome Mr. Jon Ola Sand.
Because all you artists that are here today,
it is not only representing your country,
you are also representing a broadcaster,
a public service broadcaster.
Because this is a co-production
between public service broadcasters in Europe.
And when we flex our muscle, we are really strong.
Intention counts.
And we intend to try to stage our protest.
Even though we don't manage to do it,
it still counts that we were going to.
So I feel a renewed faith.
More Icelandic media have arrived,
our families are coming.
We can feel that now Eurovision has really started.
Oh, how to start?
You stand inside a big grenade on stage
and you blew it up!
It's Hatari, y'all!
We feel art has a voice
and we take our art very seriously.
Netanyahu, you can respond to
capitalism@hatari.is
You can't get away from Iceland.
I'm not sure that this is what mother wanted
when she went there, but this is Hatari,
the first time that Iceland has qualified
EUROVISION SEMI-FINALS in five years for the grand final.
THIS YEAR'S THEME IS 'DARE TO DREAM' TO SYMBOLISE DIVERSITY That's enough oddballs from Iceland for one week, yeah?
I am Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson.
I am 25 years old.
I am unemployed.
Eurovision being our first step to bringing
an end to capitalism.
Art and music always has a political connotation.
That was the magnificent Icelandic band, Hatari
and I'll let them describe what they're all about.
We love children and smiling and dancing
among friends and family.
Their lead singer described qualifying for the contest
as bringing them ''one step nearer to our plan
''to destroy capitalism.''
It's the whole narrative of Eurovision,
which is supposed to be the peaceful,
unifying message that we agree with,
becomes political.
We feel it's important to bring across
this message that we have,
that hate is on an uprise in Europe.
26 COUNTRIES PREPARE TO BATTLE FOR POP DOMINANCE I'm so sorry, that was the U.S. president
interrupting you but we'll move on.
You were telling me about whether you
wanted to make a political point or not
at the competition this weekend.
I interrupted you, go on.
SOME ACTIVISTS CALLING FOR A BOYCOTT OVER ISRAEL'S POLICIES
Well, we would choose not to comment
on our plans at this point.
They might be interpreted in a very political way,
but obviously we've said all along
that we want to uphold a critical discussion
about the context of the competition.
It's obviously very political to host it here.
I've just done a bunch of early morning interviews.
I've hardly slept.
I think I've had enough of talking in front of cameras.
MUSIC VIDEO SHOOT JERICHO DESERT, PALESTINE
I spoke to Bashar about him coming to Iceland.
- Is the visa through, or-- - Yes, apparently so.
We need to talk about when we're gonna
release the song and the video.
What are your thoughts?
I don't know.
I think the plan, at least for now,
is just to finish it today and see what we can do.
And I think we're still having that discussion, right?
About the exact timing and about the release?
Yeah.
The headlines in Iceland now are:
''Hatari, where is the bomb?''
There's a lot of pressure.
Everybody's writing opinion articles
about what we should do
or should not do.
Yeah, but I feel like we've been
going around in circles about a topic
but now is the time like to know clearly.
Like, what do you guys think?
Do you guys feel like this is it?
The song is the statement that we want to make
and that's it?
I had an idea yesterday.
If we would get all the participants
to do a short video of saying, ''Free Palestine''
and release that
then the EBU can't disqualify
all the members of the contest.
That would be so epic.
You would become, I think,
national Palestinian heroes.
And I'm not even exaggerating.
No, like I think--
I don't know how much that helps you guys--
- you know? - It helps.
Every little thing helps.
Awareness is like our--
What doesn't help is when people stay silent
and act like nothing's happening, and go on stage
and just perform as if nothing is happening.
What if I'm waving in the green room?
I start with the gay flag, everybody knows that gig.
Then I start the trans flag, people would love that.
Then all of a sudden, the Palestinian flag!
Yeah, that's something I hadn't thought about
because at that time, voting is over.
The results-- - The competition is over.
The competition is over
and the camera is on us live.
Interesting.
That's something we hadn't thought about.
It's too late to kick you out then.
They're still talking about artistic expression!
How are we still talking about that?
Freedom of expression?
Like, no!
I'll say it again, it's irrelevant.
It comes second when you're standing on...
performing on the ruins of a village
that was destroyed in order to make way for Israel.
That's irrelevant, artistic expression.
Go do that somewhere else.
You said here, you're coming here for...
You want to make it political?
Make it political!
You can't just lead up, lead up, lead up, lead up
and then do nothing.
I think the biggest thing we could have achieved
was the tone that we set
and the agenda that we set.
And we did it way more than we expected to.
And just talking to CNN and hearing her quote
our comments about apartheid and about the occupation.
Just reading through media,
whether it's Icelandic, or Israeli, or international.
It's just the amount of attention we've had is insane.
And this was a learning experience for me.
At first I didn't think of it that much.
And maybe it was naive of me, but, you know,
after all these experiences, after going to Hebron.
I was affected by the trip to Hebron.
I think I was affected just as them.
It was my first time going there, and it's not easy.
And now just seeing my Facebook feed,
all my friends who are saying, ''Boycott Eurovision!''
And then I saw people from my friends
who are writing about Hatari, saying that...
''we appreciate everything that they're doing
''but they're still gonna go perform
''as if nothing happened.''
Nothing is ever enough, because what we're doing is...
There's not really an example for it.
And so we don't know what the end achievement would be.
What the climaxes should be, or what they could be,
- or what we can do. - But we've done a lot.
We can be proud of that.
Whether we make a statement in the green room,
or how or when the track is released.
You know, that's all great.
But to be honest, it's not at the top of my mind right now.
In the beginning, when we first started,
why I agreed to do this was because I knew
there was a statement that's gonna be made.
A statement in the Eurovision, in the final.
And up until now, it has all been talking
and talking and talking.
And I think now it's time for doing.
WELCOME TO THE QALANDIYA CROSSING
I feel like it's very suspicious
HATARI COLLABORATOR that we are running in for five minutes.
HATARI COLLABORATOR
It's giving me the chills.
Dealing flags, not drugs.
Under my dress, I can put it under my dress.
Hi.
It's at my hotel room, but I was let through
to Ramallah for a short time, and they said it was okay.
- No, it's me. - This is he, this is him.
This is, sorry?
This is him.
The thing is, we're all in the same team
and I forgot mine in the hotel.
That was such a ditzy-Vigdís moment!
I forgot my work visa.
This is Jon Ola, calling Eurovision 2019, over.
Woo-hoo!
EBU calling Eurovision 2019.
Hello! Netta?
This is flight SEC 2019 to Tel Aviv.
I have 26 finalists on board.
We are heading your way.
Copy that.
Everything will be ready on time.
They're coming.
PALESTINE
Let's say someone strips me...
which I think is unlikely,
there's not a whole lot I can do.
They'll take the thing
and that would be the end of it.
But at least we tried.
GREEN ROOM MAIN STAGE
DARE TO DREAM EUROVISION SONG CONTEST TEAL AVIV 2019
So, now that everybody's landed.
Live from Tel Aviv, Israel, this is the grand final
of the Eurovision Song Contest, 2019!
WELCOME DREAMERS
Good evening Europe,
good morning Australia, welcome to Israel.
Welcome to the greatest music competition in the world.
We are joined by a live audience
that spans, not just Europe,
but the entire world.
200 million people.
This is probably the craziest thing we'll ever do.
It'll be life before and after this moment.
BEIT SHE' AN NATIONAL PARK
Play.
DELEGATION DRESSING ROOM
ICELAND HATE WILL PREVAIL HATARI
♪ Debauchery unconstrained ♪
♪ Hangover uncontained ♪
♪ Life's purposeless confusion ♪
♪ The void will swallow all ♪
♪ I gave you all ♪
♪ Hate will prevail ♪
♪ Love to no avail ♪
♪ I gave you all ♪
♪ Hate will prevail ♪
♪ Every joy derail ♪
♪ I gave you all ♪
♪ Just treacherous illusion ♪
♪ fraud, futility ♪
♪ Hate will prevail ♪
Everything is okay.
I can confirm that.
And I can also tell you that this will be
very, very exciting.
- Wow! - So, take it away.
Thank you very much, we are taking it away.
We are ready to reveal the winner
of the Eurovision Song Contest, 2019
but first, let's explain how it's gonna work.
12 points go to...
♪ Sweden ♪
Sweden 12 points.
Our 12 points go to...
Italy.
The Netherlands.
The Netherlands, 12 points.
With 13 countries left, anything can happen.
Let's move on to Iceland.
Iceland, the public gave you...
Iceland, are you ready?
186 points!
Palestine flags, please, okay?
- No, there is more. - Another one?
Another one, the flag, the flag.
The flag!
- The flag of Palestine. - There is another one.
Please give us them all.
No, there is another one there.
I'm really frightened now.
Give me, please, the flag of Palestine.
Don't film me!
It's a moment where you don't know what to expect.
There was heckling but also support.
Some people in our group are worried about their security.
And are having panic attacks.
But I know it was what we had to do.
Even if I'm stressed and frightened too.
KELLYOSBOURNE: OH MY GOD ICELAND WAS NEXT LEVEL. WO ARE THEY
AND ARE THEY SERIOUS? MARY CLYNCH: WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH!
I'm head of press from Greece.
But I'm not here as the head of press from Greece,
I'm here as an individual.
I would like to thank you.
Thanks for coming and telling us.
That means a lot.
Well done man, well done.
I love Hatari and I love Iceland.
Thank you.
Well done brother. That was good.
I'm really proud of you.
You guys, really, it was amazing, shocking.
I couldn't believe it, really.
I was watching, just waiting for something to happen.
And I thought that maybe nothing was gonna happen.
And then...
I wanted to thank you,
on behalf of all Palestinians.
Really, I mean, what you've done was wonderful.
VOICE OF PALESTINIAN POLITICIAN It was so noble and it touched the hearts
of every Palestinian.
And not only Palestinians, actually.
You touched the hearts of everybody who believes in justice.
And that includes Israelis.
Israelis who believe in peace
and who believe that the system of apartheid
should be abolished.
People can make great art
but few people can make great art with great principles.
And you have accomplished that, in a fantastic manner.
Listen!
We all, as Palestinian nation,
the Palestinian nation,
thank you for holding the Palestinian flag
in the middle of Tel Aviv.
Thank you.
The Icelandic band Hatari,
they had qualms about playing in Tel Aviv.
And when the camera did cut to them,
there was a brief glimpse of a Palestinian flag on a scarf.
TEL AVIV ISRAEL
REYKJAVIK ICELAND
I think we'll always tread
that fine line of talking about important topics
and incorporating that in our art.
That's always been the way.
And it feels more important now than ever.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
You are incredible.
And I look forward to seeing what you do in the future.
DIRECTOR OF RÚV There's inspiration for Hatari everywhere.
It's always gonna be
the most important part of our project.
It's great that we're not just going home
and everybody's just going to their corner.
And Bashar is coming.
We can be together and get some closure.
Well, I don't think I can place any responsibility
on artists to do this or that.
But I think it's the responsibility of us,
as a society,
to give them that freedom
to fight for a cause.
But I don't think you can place a responsibility
on an artist to take up a flag for any certain cause.
I don't think so.
I think this is just part of the important freedom
to have a strong opinion or not to have an opinion.
It was really interesting how little they had to do.
You know, this little flag thing was very...
I remember when they did it,
I was like, was that all?
But it actually created quite a mayhem.
And we live in interesting times when art has...
there's this constant demand that art should be responsible.
Which is similar to
almost like Victorian times.
When, ''art should be responsible.''
But then there were very different morals.
But art always finds a way
to swim through being responsible.
And this irresponsibility
is the responsibility of the artist.
Look who it is!
- Hi! - Hi!
Good to see you!
You too.
I just finished up.
It was great, we just realised
your mum is in the background of the interview.
Really?
Yeah.
I just started to get messages from Israeli people;
screenshots of Ylfa's face, my daughter's face,
so I just kept thinking,
HATARI DANCER okay, we're not gonna get home.
And I just started panicking.
I was so upset and I think I might have had
a mini mental breakdown or something.
Even when we were walking out
and people were screaming after us like,
''fuck off Iceland,'' and all that.
Matthías said, ''Remember, this is
HATARI STYLIST ''a walk of pride, not a walk of shame.''
And that was very like... reinforced it for me.
Because it's normal to bow your head down
when someone's screaming, ''fuck off!''
But at that moment, it felt like,
no, I don't have anything to be ashamed of.
I am part of something that I believe in
and that's something to be proud of.
I know how it is to be in a country
being a gay man
HATARI DANCER
and not being accepted.
We have to take pride in our diversity
and we have to find unity in diversity.
That's my narrative.
That's what I want to do.
And that's what I've been fighting for
since I was a little child.
The sky was like pink and insane
just an hour ago.
It's so different
than anything I've ever seen before.
- Yeah. - The landscape.
I'm just trying to imagine what you're seeing.
It reminds me of where we filmed
the video a little bit.
It is kind of a desert.
♪ I'm steadfast, I won't bow down ♪
♪ I've started and I will not stop ♪
♪ I'm staying and I won't just disappear ♪
♪ I'm steadfast, I won't bow down ♪
♪ All the torture ♪
♪ Each one croaks upon his own ♪
No one, I think, ever expected
this kind of Icelandic and Arabic collaboration
with a Palestinian artist from East Jerusalem.
I think you can definitely see this changed the narrative
if you just go through the comments of the music video.
It opened a lot of people's eyes.
♪ I'm steadfast, I won't bow down ♪
We went against a lot of things
that were being said to us
from many different sides.
And still going through with what we felt correct
was an experience that I haven't tried before.
I haven't taken anything this far before.
So that's kind of...
It probably changes you.
I think there was part of us that was hoping
that we would get kicked out of the competition.
At least, I was really hoping for that.
It would have been such a relief.
I don't know how much of a relief it would've been.
If we would've got kicked out of the competition
then Iceland, as a nation, would have rejected us.
Yeah, we would have been unpopular everywhere.
We would have broken everyone's...
I love this one;
''Eurovision is about to punish a BDSM group.''
''Hi, I hope you had a terrible flight.
''Now after you've left Israel,
''I just want to say that we really hate you
''and are wishing you to drop dead.
''You are horrible singers that have no talent,
''and you sound like a female cat on period.
''I'm wishing you a horrible life
''and that something terrible will happen
''to all of you soon.
''Bye.''
Hey guys, this is Manar from Bethlehem.
Thank you so much for just
speaking the truth out.
You've made me believe that I'm not alone in this life
and I'm not a minority, and there are still people
who fight for justice and for freedom.
What's really powerful about Hatari's project is that it,
you know, it's really a good art piece for our times
because it makes everyone unhappy.
Except the children.
♪ Hangover uncontained ♪
♪ Life's purposeless confusion ♪
♪ The void will swallow all ♪
The kids were talking about hate in the school yard.
And how important it is to fight hate.
It was just a hippy song at the end of the day.
When they say, ''life's purposeless confusion,''
they're saying; life doesn't matter, you know.
And, ''Europe will crumble,'' it will never collapse.
You think Europe won't collapse?
Well yeah, in 200 years.
This is very Icelandic
because when we really take something on, we take it on.
So all of a sudden, we had not just
children in kindergarten showing up in...
black leather and chains
but also, I remember, actually,
a staff day at the PM's office
where everybody also showed up in leather and chains.
I saw what a triumph this was artistically
when I was in my daughter's school.
Like, she was eight
and all the school
1,200 children were singing with their
really with their hearts open and screaming,
''Hate will prevail.''
♪ I gave you all ♪
♪ Hate will prevail ♪
♪ Love to no avail ♪
♪ Hate will prevail ♪
♪ Every joy derail ♪
What do you think is good and important in life?
That all children get an education
and no wars.
♪ Hate will prevail ♪ WILL HATE PREVAIL?