Vincent Morriset's new interactive web experience "Way to Go" was recently introduced at a virtual reality event at the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier program, utilizing the Oculus Rift Vr headset. Now it's available for free online. The project is an immersive experience that allows users to lead their own journey at their own pace through the woods. Combining hand-made animation, 360-degree video capture, music (including a soundtrack by Philippe Lambert) and code, "Way to Go" marks the second collaboration between the National Film Board of Canada (Nfb) and Morriset. Read More: Arcade Fire Releases New Interactive Music Video "Just a Reflektor" During the last decade, Morriset pioneered interactive videos for Arcade Fire (Neon Bible, Sprawl II, Just a Reflektor) and has also directed two feature films, "Miroir Noir" and "Inni," a documentary on Sigur Rós. Check out the "Way to Go" trailer...
- 2/5/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Concert film Björk: Biophilia Live to receive its UK premiere at the Lff.
Björk: Biophilia Live will receive its UK premiere as the Sonic Gala at the 58th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
Björk will attend the event with directors Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton on Oct 9 at the Odeon West End.
The concert film films the Icelandic artist as she performs songs from her eighth album with visuals provided by designers from around the world.
Directed by Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy, Berberian Sound Studio) and editor Fenton (The Selfish Giant, Sigur Rós film Inni), the concert was recorded live at London’s Alexandra Palace in September 2013
The film will be screened at festivals, museums, galleries and cinemas in the UK and worldwide through autumn 2014.
Strickland said: “Being offered the Sonic Gala is gleeful revenge for all those many occasions when people complained about the music I was playing.”
Fenton added:...
Björk: Biophilia Live will receive its UK premiere as the Sonic Gala at the 58th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
Björk will attend the event with directors Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton on Oct 9 at the Odeon West End.
The concert film films the Icelandic artist as she performs songs from her eighth album with visuals provided by designers from around the world.
Directed by Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy, Berberian Sound Studio) and editor Fenton (The Selfish Giant, Sigur Rós film Inni), the concert was recorded live at London’s Alexandra Palace in September 2013
The film will be screened at festivals, museums, galleries and cinemas in the UK and worldwide through autumn 2014.
Strickland said: “Being offered the Sonic Gala is gleeful revenge for all those many occasions when people complained about the music I was playing.”
Fenton added:...
- 8/20/2014
- by [email protected] (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Concert movie Björk: Biophilia Live is to receive its European Premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Directors Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton will be on hand for the gala presentation of Björk: Biophilia Live at the 49th Kviff (July 4-12).
Icelandic artist Björk came out with the Biophilia project in 2011. Beyond her eighth full-length album, the project also includes performances, interactive applications, and educational programs. These have now been augmented by a film of the concert created at London’s Alexandra Palace where Björk completed the Biophilia tour; the singer cooperated on the project with Fenton and Strickland.
In addition to Björk, the film features an Icelandic choir, Austrian percussionist Manu Delago, and numerous unusual instruments. The performance is rounded out with collages referencing tectonic plates, DNA, the Moon, mushrooms, and various other objects of scientific interest. The resulting film illustrates songs and concepts from the Biophilia project, plus other well-known...
Directors Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton will be on hand for the gala presentation of Björk: Biophilia Live at the 49th Kviff (July 4-12).
Icelandic artist Björk came out with the Biophilia project in 2011. Beyond her eighth full-length album, the project also includes performances, interactive applications, and educational programs. These have now been augmented by a film of the concert created at London’s Alexandra Palace where Björk completed the Biophilia tour; the singer cooperated on the project with Fenton and Strickland.
In addition to Björk, the film features an Icelandic choir, Austrian percussionist Manu Delago, and numerous unusual instruments. The performance is rounded out with collages referencing tectonic plates, DNA, the Moon, mushrooms, and various other objects of scientific interest. The resulting film illustrates songs and concepts from the Biophilia project, plus other well-known...
- 7/2/2014
- by [email protected] (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Festival will take titles on tour to Edinbugh and Glasgow.
The Nordic Film Festival is returning to London for its second edition (Nov 25-Dec 4), focussing on films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
The 15-title strong programme will include five UK premieres and two London premieres. The line-up comprises family and youth dramas, crime thrillers, documentaries, animation, experimental film and shorts.
The festival will open with the UK premiere of Marcus Fjellstrom’s short noir animation series, Odboy and Erordog Suite, with live soundtrack performed by Swedish quartet The Pearls Before Swine Experience.
Other UK premieres include Rune Denstad Langlo’s Chasing the Wind; documentary My Stuff with a Q&A with director Petri Luukkainen; and documentary Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart with a Q&A with director Mika Ronkainen.
Other highlights include Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night and closing film You and Me Forever by director Kaspar Munk. The latter screening will be attended by lead...
The Nordic Film Festival is returning to London for its second edition (Nov 25-Dec 4), focussing on films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
The 15-title strong programme will include five UK premieres and two London premieres. The line-up comprises family and youth dramas, crime thrillers, documentaries, animation, experimental film and shorts.
The festival will open with the UK premiere of Marcus Fjellstrom’s short noir animation series, Odboy and Erordog Suite, with live soundtrack performed by Swedish quartet The Pearls Before Swine Experience.
Other UK premieres include Rune Denstad Langlo’s Chasing the Wind; documentary My Stuff with a Q&A with director Petri Luukkainen; and documentary Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart with a Q&A with director Mika Ronkainen.
Other highlights include Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night and closing film You and Me Forever by director Kaspar Munk. The latter screening will be attended by lead...
- 11/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
Met Opera Live | Jonas Mekas | Sigur Rós: Valtari Mystery Film Experiment | Bristol Palestine Film Festival
Met Opera Live, Nationwide
Opera is supposed to be elitist and inaccessible, but ironically cinema is coming to its rescue. New York's Metropolitan Opera has become a global leader in the field, and three of its productions stream live in HD in cinemas across the country this month: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito, Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera (updated to a film-noirish context) and his Egyptian epic, Aïda. It might not be the same as the live experience, but it's a damn sight cheaper, and truly different.
Picturehouse & Curzon cinemas & various venues, Sat to 27 Dec
Jonas Mekas, London
Mekas is just about the last surviving link to the golden postwar age of American avant garde film-making, which has been a well of inspiration for modern cinema, indie and mainstream. He helped preserve the work of Andy Warhol,...
Met Opera Live, Nationwide
Opera is supposed to be elitist and inaccessible, but ironically cinema is coming to its rescue. New York's Metropolitan Opera has become a global leader in the field, and three of its productions stream live in HD in cinemas across the country this month: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito, Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera (updated to a film-noirish context) and his Egyptian epic, Aïda. It might not be the same as the live experience, but it's a damn sight cheaper, and truly different.
Picturehouse & Curzon cinemas & various venues, Sat to 27 Dec
Jonas Mekas, London
Mekas is just about the last surviving link to the golden postwar age of American avant garde film-making, which has been a well of inspiration for modern cinema, indie and mainstream. He helped preserve the work of Andy Warhol,...
- 12/1/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
In a week that, coincidentally, I watched the Sigur Rós concert movie Inni and Talking Heads’ seminal Stop Making Sense, it seems fitting that I should now be reviewing the most recent music documentary film, Shut Up and Play the Hits.
Directed by Ryan Tomayko, the film documents the last ever gig by dance-punk band LCD Soundsystem at New York’s Madison Square Garden, and follows frontman and founder James Murphy on the days before and after the concert. It also features Murphy in an interview with American writer Chuck Klosterman that is sporadically cut between live footage.
For a music film to appeal to a wider audience than just its core fanbase, it needs to get the tone and the balance between live footage and context just right. Take my previous example for instance; Stop Making Sense is a film, devised by David Byrne, performed by Talking Heads (at...
Directed by Ryan Tomayko, the film documents the last ever gig by dance-punk band LCD Soundsystem at New York’s Madison Square Garden, and follows frontman and founder James Murphy on the days before and after the concert. It also features Murphy in an interview with American writer Chuck Klosterman that is sporadically cut between live footage.
For a music film to appeal to a wider audience than just its core fanbase, it needs to get the tone and the balance between live footage and context just right. Take my previous example for instance; Stop Making Sense is a film, devised by David Byrne, performed by Talking Heads (at...
- 9/5/2012
- Shadowlocked
Included in the limited special edition of 2011 Sigur Rós film _Inni_ was a pack of light sensitive paper sheets to which the band is encouraging fans to create their own original art. It's been announced that the art is apart of a Sigur Rós merchandise competition. The public can vote on all submissions and the top images will be submitted to the band, who will choose the final winner.
- 1/13/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
2011 was a great year for album releases, from artists new and old, and with 2012 set to be our last year on Earth (ahem, those Mayans, what are they like?), you’d hope that at the very least the sound track to the end of the world would be a good one to go out on. Thankfully, judging by the list myself and fellow WhatCulture! writer Rhys Milsom have compiled, the soundtrack to our unified demise should be the least of our worries.
So here is the first in two articles on some of the albums to keep a ear out for in 2012, and if some of these albums live up to their promise, they may well appear in our end of year list, if there’s an end of year to be had of course…
Lamb Of God – Resolution (24th January)
Throughout their career, Lamb Of God have released consistently...
So here is the first in two articles on some of the albums to keep a ear out for in 2012, and if some of these albums live up to their promise, they may well appear in our end of year list, if there’s an end of year to be had of course…
Lamb Of God – Resolution (24th January)
Throughout their career, Lamb Of God have released consistently...
- 1/9/2012
- by Morgan Roberts
- Obsessed with Film
For their new music video, oddball Canadian chamber pop band Arcade Fire -- who last year made a music video that utilized Google Earth and had Spike Jonze turn their album The Suburbs into a mini-sci-fi movie set in Texas -- now want you to participate in the editorial process of their new interactive video by dancing. Yes, you heard right. Dance. The video for their new single "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" comes viewable as a traditional music video, directed by Vincent Morisset (who recently directed the concert doc "Inni" for Sigur Ros and who is also strange and Canadian). But, for the more adventurous Arcade Fire fans out there (you know who you are, Mr. Has-a-bootleg-copy-of-"The Box"-score-on-their-iPhone), you can head over to a dedicated website, where you're encouraged to interact with the video via dance. The way this works (and we're not entirely sure if we...
- 12/20/2011
- The Playlist
Vincent Morisset has now found himself twice in the court of indie-rock’s royalty, first with The Arcade Fire and more recently with Sigur Rós. In just a matter of three years, he’s released Mirror Noir and Inni—two highly impressive films on two highly influential bands. But the filmmaker, whose primary focus lies outside of music-related work, didn’t pursue either project himself. “Both projects came as accidents in a way,” he admits. “I don’t know to be honest.I liked the fact that these things just happened by accident.” Morisset’s Mirror Noir documented the Arcade Fire around the time of their 2007...
- 11/14/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Back from a prolonged hiatus, the Icelandic rock group Sigur Rós will release “Inni,” a concert documentary and live album, scheduled for the spring.
The Journal’s Jim Fusilli writes:
Recorded in London in 2008, the film captures Sigur Rós’s final two shows following a lengthy tour in support of “Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust,” which translates roughly as “With a buzz in our ears, we play endlessly.” Directed by Vincent Morisset, it’s a close look at the band in concert,...
The Journal’s Jim Fusilli writes:
Recorded in London in 2008, the film captures Sigur Rós’s final two shows following a lengthy tour in support of “Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust,” which translates roughly as “With a buzz in our ears, we play endlessly.” Directed by Vincent Morisset, it’s a close look at the band in concert,...
- 11/9/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
We have a few musical treats for you today. The first is a glimpse at the opening dance number for The Muppets featuring Jason Segel. The film recently had its first showings in Los Angeles to outstanding reviews and while I’ve never been a diehard fan of this franchise, coupled with Martin Scorsese‘s fantastic Hugo hitting theaters the same day, it looks to be the perfect family-friendly double feature.
Sigur Rós‘ concert documentary Inni is also seeing a release this month, as well as screenings across the country, and we have over 25 minutes from the film to check out. I adore Vincent Morisset‘s style shown here and can’t wait to pick this one up. If you missed it, we reviewed it at Vancouver International Film Festival, where we said, “the ghost-like, ethereal quality of the visuals mixed with the otherworldly sounds can captivate in their intensity...
Sigur Rós‘ concert documentary Inni is also seeing a release this month, as well as screenings across the country, and we have over 25 minutes from the film to check out. I adore Vincent Morisset‘s style shown here and can’t wait to pick this one up. If you missed it, we reviewed it at Vancouver International Film Festival, where we said, “the ghost-like, ethereal quality of the visuals mixed with the otherworldly sounds can captivate in their intensity...
- 11/8/2011
- by [email protected] (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Sigur Ros’ live shows have long been heralded as sublime experiences, with the Icelandic band’s ambient rock growing from a whisper to a raucous thunder. But with the band on indefinite hiatus and lead singer Jónsi Birgisson enjoying a successful solo career, fans who long for that live experience will have to make due with Inni, Sigur Ros’ first proper live album packaged with an accompanying concert film shot by Vincent Morisset. While the opportunity to see the band in person might not present itself in the near future, Inni is a stellar taste of the live Sigur ...
- 11/8/2011
- avclub.com
The new Sigur Rós live album/documentary, Inni, has all sorts of goodies. But now, one of the exclusive tracks off the deluxe edition of the project has made its way to the web. "Lúppulagið" is an atmospheric instrumental track that finds the band falling back on guitar swells and plinking pianos. Although you won't hear frontman Jonsi Birgisson's distinctive voice on this one, its quiet stillness is still unmistakably Sigur Rós.
- 11/7/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Earlier this year, we alerted you to the existence of "Inni," the new documentary on Icelandic band Sigur Ros. Now, the film is making its way around the country in varying theaters, and music from it is being released in bits and bobs. The impossibly titled and previously unreleased "Lúppulagið" is now streaming, and boy is this piano-led track sad. Watch a dully fading sunset. Consider your options to otherwise support the 99%. Write your dead grandmother a letter. The live album companion to "Inni" is out on Nov. 15, and the doc is heading to CD/LP and DVD in different...
- 11/4/2011
- Hitfix
Sigur Rós's second concert film opens at the Downtown Independent in Los Angeles tomorrow and sees a five-day run at Tiff Bell Lightbox in Toronto, also starting starting tomorrow. For more dates throughout the coming weeks, see the site and/or Cinema Purgatorio.
"Directed by [Canadian] Vincent Morisset, this mostly black-and-white, moody exercise in making digital footage from 2008 look like long-lost video from around the time when Ian Curtis was still doing gigs, is radically different from the first Sigur Rós cinema project, 2007's Heima," writes Gustavo Turner in the La Weekly. Inni "is a hazy, shoegazy visual tone that is both elegiac and eulogistic — that is, at once meditative and funereal. At a time when most Us music documentaries have devolved into either artist-endorsed EPKs (see Scorsese's Dylan and George Harrison docs) or predictable Behind the Music – style fables of redemption, it's refreshing to see state-sponsored artists from welfare...
"Directed by [Canadian] Vincent Morisset, this mostly black-and-white, moody exercise in making digital footage from 2008 look like long-lost video from around the time when Ian Curtis was still doing gigs, is radically different from the first Sigur Rós cinema project, 2007's Heima," writes Gustavo Turner in the La Weekly. Inni "is a hazy, shoegazy visual tone that is both elegiac and eulogistic — that is, at once meditative and funereal. At a time when most Us music documentaries have devolved into either artist-endorsed EPKs (see Scorsese's Dylan and George Harrison docs) or predictable Behind the Music – style fables of redemption, it's refreshing to see state-sponsored artists from welfare...
- 10/30/2011
- MUBI
For those of you who don't make it out to festivals, this may be the only look you get at the documentary Andrew Bird: Fever Year. These hybrid concert footage/documentaries are all the rage these days (check Sigur Ros' Inni), but this one looks particularly interesting as it documents Andrew Bird's sickly touring lifestyle: "Have I simply been ill this year or am just turning into another type of animal?"...
- 10/26/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Sigur Ros' documentary/live footage DVD Inni is all set to be released on November 15th on Xl Recordings, but now Sigur Ros has also announced that the documentary will be going on tour, so to speak, and coming to a theater near you. To make things even better, if you pre-order Inni from your local record store, you'll get a free complimentary ticket to see the documentary on the big screen at the theater in your town.
- 10/13/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Since the release of the landmark album Ágætis byrjun in 1999 Iceland's Sigur Ros have won a legion of loyal fans around the globe. Haunting, ethereal melodies rub up against walls of barely restrained noise all of it undergirding lead singer Jonsi's impossible falsetto delivering lyrics that often have no literal meaning whatsoever. The goal was to create music that listeners could place their own feelings and emotions into. The result was a band that had seemingly arrived from another planet, from another world. There is something fey about Sigur Ros, some touch of wild magic.And with their second performance film, Inni, and in the form of that film's director Vincent Morisset the band has found the perfect visual match to their distinct sound....
- 10/13/2011
- Screen Anarchy
If you go into Inni thinking you’ll receive Heima Part 2, you either be sadly disappointed or extremely grateful because it is anything but. Rather than show us Sigur Rós’ atmospherically sumptuous music against the gorgeous expanse of their Icelandic homeland, director Vincent Moriset captures the bombastic energy of one performance in a monochrome, scratchy gray. Shot with intimate compositions of abstract shapes and completely unbalanced framing, we experience the assault of being at the concert hall. Through a show from November 2008 at Alexandra Palace in London, we are transported to a world of raw, unbridled aural chaos—the beauty and awesomeness of the band let loose to travel freely beyond the stage.
Whereas their first documentary infused a lot of interview footage with the artistically controlled performances, Morisset has decided to pair his stripped down visuals with a limited archive displaying the world’s ignorance of their origins. With...
Whereas their first documentary infused a lot of interview footage with the artistically controlled performances, Morisset has decided to pair his stripped down visuals with a limited archive displaying the world’s ignorance of their origins. With...
- 10/8/2011
- by [email protected] (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Fresh off its premiere at the Venice Film Festival the Vincent Morisset directed Sigur Ros concert film Inni is now gearing up for a string of theatrical dates before it arrives in shops in early November. Those who want to catch this thing on the big screen should take a look here for the current list of theatrical engagements around the globe while those who are still on the fence may find themselves swayed by the clip embedded below.Running nearly eight minutes long the clip features a live performance of the song Festival and it is absolutely beautiful - both to look at and to hear. Morisset looks to have provided the perfect visual match to the band's music, making Inni one of the...
- 9/19/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Sigur Rós announced today that their double-live album, Inni, will be released on Nov. 15 on Xl Recordings. The album and film will be released on several different formats, including CD and DVD or Blu-Ray versions that include four extra songs, a triple-lp version, a digital edition and a deluxe edition. The album is available for pre-order on Amazon.com, Xl Recording’s website, and Sigur Rós’ website.
- 9/16/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
It has been three years since Sigur Ros' last album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, and with the band still on an indefinite hiatus--and with frontman Jonsi busying himself with a solo career and scoring Cameron Crowe's upcoming "We Bought A Zoo"--it doesn't look like we'll be seeing any new material from them anytime soon. But not to worry, Sigur Ros fans, they haven't completely closed the tap as they've got a brand new concert movie coming out, just in time for your holiday shopping. Directed by Vincent Morrisset (Arcade Fire's "Mirroir Noir"), "Inni" arrived at the Venice…...
- 9/16/2011
- The Playlist
Last month we reported on the next film from Sigur Rós (recently featured in the We Bought a Zoo trailer, in which Jonsi is doing the original score). Directed by Vincent Morisset, the concert doc Inni premiered at Venice Film Festival (photo above and detailed report here), and now we have our first full performance from the film.
The double album and film capture their 2008 performance at London’s Alexandra Palace and the clip below is of Festival from their album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. The set will be released in November, but you can check out the official site for a screening schedule and you can even request a screening in your area.
Watch the performance below in today’s Daily Distraction and Vimeo hasn’t been kind to our site, so if it doesn’t work check it out there. I’ve also posted the...
The double album and film capture their 2008 performance at London’s Alexandra Palace and the clip below is of Festival from their album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. The set will be released in November, but you can check out the official site for a screening schedule and you can even request a screening in your area.
Watch the performance below in today’s Daily Distraction and Vimeo hasn’t been kind to our site, so if it doesn’t work check it out there. I’ve also posted the...
- 9/16/2011
- by [email protected] (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Inni will document Icelandic band's 2008 concert at Alexandra Palace in London
Sigur Rós have announced a new live album and concert DVD, Inni, recorded at London's Alexandra Palace in 2008. Due in November, the film was directed by Vincent Morisset, who made Arcade Fire's Miroir Noir.
Inni won't be a conventional tour documentary. Much as the band's last DVD, 2007's Heima, set their music against sublime scenery, the 75-minute concert film captures Sigur Rós through the lens of, er, their own movie. After shooting the band's two London performances, Morisset re-filmed the original footage on 16mm celluloid, using "prisms and other found objects" to disrupt and fracture the material. Whereas Heima was "lush and colourful", a press release explains, Inni is "spare and near-monochromatic". That's certainly the tone of the trailer, which has more in common with Fritz Lang's Metropolis than Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light.
Sigur Rós have only played two gigs,...
Sigur Rós have announced a new live album and concert DVD, Inni, recorded at London's Alexandra Palace in 2008. Due in November, the film was directed by Vincent Morisset, who made Arcade Fire's Miroir Noir.
Inni won't be a conventional tour documentary. Much as the band's last DVD, 2007's Heima, set their music against sublime scenery, the 75-minute concert film captures Sigur Rós through the lens of, er, their own movie. After shooting the band's two London performances, Morisset re-filmed the original footage on 16mm celluloid, using "prisms and other found objects" to disrupt and fracture the material. Whereas Heima was "lush and colourful", a press release explains, Inni is "spare and near-monochromatic". That's certainly the tone of the trailer, which has more in common with Fritz Lang's Metropolis than Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light.
Sigur Rós have only played two gigs,...
- 8/18/2011
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
A few days after a mysterious trailer was posted from the Sigur Rós camp called _Inni_, the band has released a statement that _Inni_ will be a live concert film and double album. The film was shot over two nights, at London’s Alexandra Palace, which includes their last show before they went on an indefinite hiatus in 2008. The film was directed by Vincent Morisset, who directed Arcade Fire’s _Miroir Noir_ and will make its debut at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3. _Inni_ will be available to purchase in November.
- 8/17/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
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