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Heima by Sigur Rós
Heima is Sigur Rós’s first ever film, filmed over two weeks last summer when the band undertook a series of free, unannounced concerts in Iceland. They hauled 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland for their debut venture into live film, to create something inspirational.
On their way they went to ghost towns, outsider art shrines, national parks, small community halls and the absolute middle-of-nowhere-ness of the highland wilderness, as well as playing the largest gig of their career (and in Icelandic history) at their homecoming Reykjavik show.
Heima (Icelandic for “at home” or “homeland”), truly, shows Sigur Rós as never before. Whereas seeing the group live is normally a large-scale and sometimes overwhelming experience, making full use of lights and mesmeric visuals, Heima was always intended to reveal more of what was actually going on on stage. It does this via long-held close-ups and a rare intimate proximity, without ever once breaking the spell.
Loosely based on a documentary format—and including personal reflections from the band—Heima also serves as an alternative primer for Iceland the country, which is revealed as less stag destination-du-jour and more desolate, magical place where human beings have little right to trespass. Heima features performances of songs from all four Sigur Rós albums, many radically reworked, as well as two exclusive new songs in “guitardjamm”, which was filmed inside an abandoned herring oil tank in the far west of the country, and the traditional “A Ferd Til Breidarfjardar 1922”, performed with poet Steindor Andersen.
Watch the trailer.

Heima by Sigur Rós

Heima is Sigur Rós’s first ever film, filmed over two weeks last summer when the band undertook a series of free, unannounced concerts in Iceland. They hauled 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland for their debut venture into live film, to create something inspirational.

On their way they went to ghost towns, outsider art shrines, national parks, small community halls and the absolute middle-of-nowhere-ness of the highland wilderness, as well as playing the largest gig of their career (and in Icelandic history) at their homecoming Reykjavik show.

Heima (Icelandic for “at home” or “homeland”), truly, shows Sigur Rós as never before. Whereas seeing the group live is normally a large-scale and sometimes overwhelming experience, making full use of lights and mesmeric visuals, Heima was always intended to reveal more of what was actually going on on stage. It does this via long-held close-ups and a rare intimate proximity, without ever once breaking the spell.

Loosely based on a documentary format—and including personal reflections from the band—Heima also serves as an alternative primer for Iceland the country, which is revealed as less stag destination-du-jour and more desolate, magical place where human beings have little right to trespass.

Heima features performances of songs from all four Sigur Rós albums, many radically reworked, as well as two exclusive new songs in “guitardjamm”, which was filmed inside an abandoned herring oil tank in the far west of the country, and the traditional “A Ferd Til Breidarfjardar 1922”, performed with poet Steindor Andersen.

Watch the trailer.