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Sigur Rós: Heima

2008: A Musical Odyssey 2008 / Sigur Rós: Heima / Iceland, United Kingdom 2007

Unannounced open-air concerts in both urban and rural environments – this was how impressionistic Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós greeted their homeland (heima) after returning from a world tour. An inventive, visually beautiful music documentary about the presence of home, history and tradition in contemporary Icelandic culture.

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Synopsis

Unannounced open-air concerts in both urban and rural environments – this was how impressionistic Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós greeted their homeland (heima) after returning from a world tour. We follow them on this musical road movie around Iceland where the band performs the biggest and smallest shows of their career in their home environment: in deserted fish factories, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened caves, and even in a cod-liver oil storage tank in the western fjords. This inventive, visually powerful documentary is just as majestic and intimate as Sigur Rós’s music itself and overturns the journalistic cliché about the landscape of fire and ice which supposedly influenced the band’s music: the bonds between the land and its people are, in fact, much deeper. Using evocative means (through images, music and brief testimonies), Sigur Rós: Heima speaks of the presence of home, history and tradition in contemporary Icelandic culture.

About the film

94 min / Color, DIGIBETA

Director Dean DeBlois / Dir. of Photography G. Magni Ágústsson, Alan Calzatti / Music Sigur Rós / Editor Nick Fenton / Producer John Best, Dean O’Connor / Contact Icelandic Film Centre
www: www.heima.co.uk

About the director

Dean DeBlois

Dean DeBlois (b. 1970, Canada), Canadian director, screenwriter and animator, is known primarily as one of the authors and directors of the feature-length animated film Lilo & Stitch, 2002), which was nominated for an Oscar. The Reykjavik IFF in 2007 opened with a gala premiere screening of the documentary Sigur Rós: Heima, which enjoyed huge public acclaim in the director’s native country: DVD sales earned DeBlois a Gold Disc in the music video category. He is currently working on another feature-length film, The Banshee and Fin Magee.

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Icelandic Film Centre
Hverfisgata 54, 101, Reykjavik
Iceland
Phone: +354 562 3580
Fax: +354 562 7171
E-mail: [email protected]

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Sigurros Hilmarsdottir
Film Institution Rep.

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