During summer of 2011, a Chicago-based filmmaking collective called Scenic, founded with longtime collaborators and ad agency peers Mark Wisniowski and Ryan Sievert, had just finished a series of independently-produced music videos.  Tim Navis, an incredibly talented LA-based fashion/landscape photographer whose work we were already fans of, had reached out about shooting a process piece in Iceland with Danish photographer Kim Holtermand.  
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The original notion centered around how two prolific photographers and peers from an online creative community would meet for the first time in a foreign landscape and capture the environment and culture in their own styles, examining their contrasting signature approaches to image-making.
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What began as a story about two artists, grew to a crew of seven artists and filmmakers bringing unique perspectives from their disciplines to the table.

“Outliers” was conceived as a group travelog, where footage collected along the way would be used to paint a picture through a series of vignettes.  Each artist in the group were accomplished photographers in their own right, but the concept evolved to be much more interesting when a composer / music supervisor / sound recordist was introduced.

We enlisted producer and composer Benjamin Wynn, aka Deru, to score and curate a soundtrack of original music and in doing so, found an interesting way to captivate a wider audience. Using field recordings and hours of raw footage from the adventure as inspiration, the Outliers, Vol. I: Iceland score featured diverse contributions from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shigeto, Loscil, Son Lux, Loscil, Goldmund, Eskmo, and Deru himself.