2012: A Musical Odyssey 2012 / Inni / Canada, Iceland, United Kingdom 2011
The second concert film focusing on the Icelandic band Sigur Rós is visually the exact opposite of the colourful road movie Heima. Paying attention to detail, this black-and-white artistic experiment turns in on itself in search of the alchemy of live harmony and unity, and the experience of listening. This is Sigur Rós in a darker and psychedelically more intoxicating frame of mind.
The filmmakers found the appropriate visual style to reflect the impressionistic post-rock ambience of Iceland’s most famous band. If the previous concert film Heima (2007, screened at Karlovy Vary in 2008) monitored Sigur Rós’s colourful pilgrimage across the stirring and more bizarre regions of their native island, Inni is conceived as anti-Heima: through detail it turns in on itself in search of the alchemy of live harmony and the experience of listening. Originally filmed on HD Digital, Inni was first transferred onto classic celluloid (16 mm) and then projected and re-filmed, sometimes through glass and other objects to give a strong impressionistic look, a feat accomplished with the help of Karl Lemieux, the visual collaborator for the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The film was then meticulously pieced together by Heima editor Nick Fenton, who chose to break up the flow with unexplained archive footage, including an interview from the period before the band’s exposure to the wider world at the end of the last century.
75 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Vincent Morisset
/ Dir. of Photography Rob Hardy
/ Music Sigur Rós
/ Editor Nick Fenton, Stéphane LaFleur
/ Producer John Best, Libby Durdy, Dean O’Connor, Laura Tunstall
/ Production Klikk Film, Parlophone, Warp Films
/ Cast Jón Þór Birgisson, Kjartan Sveinsson, Georg Hólm, Orri Páll Dýrason
/ Contact Ray Privett
www: www.sigur-ros.co.uk/band/disco/inni
Vincent Morisset, a filmmaker of French origins, calls himself a "web-friendly” director. He made a collection of short documentaries and stylised films about the band Arcade Fire entitled Miroir Noir (2009). He examined the possibilities of interactive films in the computer environment (Colorblind Clyde, Bla Bla). His most recent video clip for Arcade Fire, Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), is also an interactive venture. Sigur Rós’s concert film Inni was premiered at the Venice IFF in 2011 and has been earning credits at film and music festivals ever since.
Ray Privett
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Pavel Klusák
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