Rebekka Karijord

ComposerSongwriterArtist

Mar 14

Written By Arbel Bedak

Featured Credits

Deliver Me

My Mercury

Songs of Earth

Highlights Reel

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Credits

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Nordisk Film l Feature
Dir. Pernille Fischer Christensen
The Curse (2025)
Nordisk Film l Feature
Dir: Amanda Kernell
Raptures (2024)
Iris Films l Feature
Dir: Jon Blåhed
This Tempting Madness (2024)
Smokejumer Films l Feature
Dir: Jennifer E. Montgomery
Deliver Me (2024)
Netflix | Series
Dir. Anna Zachrisson
My Mercury (2023)
A24 | Feature Doc
Dir. Pippa Erlich
Songs of the Earth (2023)
Spreanza Film | Feature Doc
Dir. Margreth Olin
*Official Selection, 2023 CPH:DOX
*Official Selection, 2023 Toronto Int’l Film Festival
*Official Selection, 2023 Norway Oscar Submission
All the Old Knives (2022)
Amazon Studios | Feature
Dir. Janus Metz
Explorer (2022)
Universal Pictures UK | Feature Doc
Dir. Matthew Dyas
Pray, Obey, Kill (2021)
HBO | Docuseries
Dir. Henrik Georgsson
I Am Greta (2020)
Hulu | Feature Doc
Dir. Nathan Grossman
I Am Adil (2019)
Mantary Film | Feature Doc
Randi Mossige-Norheim
Leva Älska (2017)
Feature Doc
Dir. Mete Gardell
Barndom (2016)
Feature Doc
Dir. Margreth Olin
Mannen Fra Snåsa (2016)
Feature Film
Dir. Margreth Olin
Blood Sisters (2015)
Feature
Dir. Malin Andersson
I See You (2013)
Feature
Dir. Sylvelin Måkestad
Nowhere Home (2012)
Feature
Dir. Margreth Olin
”Med Hjärtat Som Insats” (2012)
SVT Sweden | TV
Not A Man In Sight (2011)
Feature
Dir. Mette Gardell
Clara S'en Va Mourir (2011)
ARTE | Short (TV Movie)
Dir. Virginie Wagon
Wireless World (2011)
Feature
Dir. Sonja Lidén
Zero Silence (2011)
Feature
Dir. Jonny Von
The Regretters (2010)
Feature Documentary
Dir. Marcus Lindeen
The Angel (2009)
Feature
Dir. Margreth Olin
Coming 2025
Let This Darkness Be A Bell Tower (w/ Roomful of Teeth)
Fall 2024
Archives of Longing (w/ Andrew Yee)
2023
Songs of Earth, original soundtrack (w/ London Contemporary Orchestra)
Complete Mountain Almanac, solo album (w/ Bryce & Aaron Dessner)
2017
Mother Tongue, solo album
2014
Music for Film & Theatre, solo album/compilation
2012
We Become Ourselves, solo album
2010
The Noble Art Of Letting Go, solo album
2005
Good or Goodbye, album
2003
Neophyte, album
2019
Utestemme Installation, National Museum Oslo, Snøhetta
2018
Epifonima, Cirkus Cirkör, International
2017
The Never Ending Story, Malmö City Theatre
2016
Anatomy for Beginners, Touring, Norway
2015/16
Use My Body While Its Still Young, The Royal Opera, Oslo
2016
Våffelhjärtat, Sveriges Radio, Sweden
2013/14
Jo Fortere Jeg går, Desto Mindre Er Jeg, The National Theatre, Norway
2013
Demand For Love, The Royal Opera, Norway
2012
The Borderless, National House of Dance, Norway
2011
Adventure, National House of Dance, Norway
2010
Wear It Like A Crown, Cirkus Cirkör, Sweden
2010
Hjärtats Beatbox, Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm
2009
Lars og Rakel, NRK Radio Theatre, Norway
2009
Everlasting, National House of Dance, Norway
2009
Hamsterprosjektet, Tour, Norway (2009)
2008/09
Love och Cirkusfåglarna, Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm
2008
Som Jerusalem, Stockholm City Theatre
2007/08
My Name Is Rachel Corrie, Stockholm City Theatre
2008
Etydes, Tour, Norway
2007
Så tag nu mina händer, Tour, Norway
2002-05
Rebekka’s Saga, The National Theatre, Norway

Bio

Rebekka Karijord (she/her) is a composer and musician originally from Sandnessjøen, just south of the arctic circle in Northern Norway. Over the course of her career she has composed music for over 30 films, modern dance performances and theatrical pieces, as well as released six solo albums under her own name.

Recent project highlights include the score to the critically acclaimed Norwegian nature documentary Songs of Earth, an official selection at 2023 CPH:DOX and the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival; the A24 feature documentary My Mercury currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video; the Amazon Studios drama thriller feature All The Old Knives; the Universal Pictures film Explorer, a biopic of British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes; the HBO documentary thriller series Pray, Obey, Kill; and the album “Complete Mountain Almanac”, a collaboration with Bryce and Aaron Dessner (The National) based upon the poems of Jessica Dessner with songs by Rebekka, which released in January 2023.

Karijord holds a degree from the prestigious Stockholm Royal Dramatic Institute and has an extensive education within fine arts. Over the course of her early career she developed her unique voice through experience as a musician, actor, playwright and composer, working alongside directors including Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt and Margreth Olin.

Her breadth of experience and skills as a studio technician, songwriter and programmer have allowed her to work on a diverse range of commissioned projects. From film scores to theatre productions for The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and The National Opera House in Norway to sound design for The National Museum in Norway. Karijord writes for all kinds of constellations, from orchestras and ensembles to more intimate electro acoustic scores.

With her in-depth experience Karijord has developed a sharply intuitive dramaturgical understanding of what a film needs emotionally, and many of the projects she has chosen to work on have a clear humanistic and political agenda.