'HEIMA - A FILM BY SIGUR ROS' PREMIERES IN VANCOUVER - April 18-19-20 @ Vancity Theatre
DIRECTOR DEAN DEBLOIS IN ATTENDANCE (April 18 & 19 only)[Iceland, 2007, HD Cam, 5.1 surround sound, colour, 92 minutes]
Last year, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and smallest shows of their career, the entire tour was filmed, and now provides a unique insight into one of the world’s shyest and least understood bands captured live in their natural habitat.
The Icelandic tour was free and went largely unannounced. Playing in deserted fish factories, outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened caves and the hoofprint of Odin’s horse, the band reached an entirely new spectrum of the Icelandic population: young and old, ardent and merely quizzical, entirely by word-of-mouth. Directed by Canadian animator Dean DeBlois (Lilo and Stitch) and shot using a largely Icelandic crew, Heima (which means both “at home” and “homeland”) was an attempt to make a film every bit as big, beautiful and unfettered as a Sigur Rós album, never less than epic in its ambition....
The film is set for a premiere Vancouver screening at the Vancity Theatre from April 18-20, and the director will be in attendance for the first two nights. Please visit:
http://www.vifc.org/home.html for screening times.
The deluxe 2 DVD Heima and it's audio companion, Hvarf/Heim are available now via XL Recordings.
“As moving as it is magical…Sigur Rós have reinvented the rock film…5 stars” - Q Magazine
“Staggeringly beautiful…Top 10 Greatest Ever Concert Movies." - The Observer.
Screenings co-presented by Vancity Theatre, Images Festival (Toronto), Beggars Group Canada and XL Recordings.
www.heimafilm.comwww.hvarf-heim.comwww.sigur-ros.co.ukwww.xlrecordings.comwww.vifc.orgwww.imagesfestival.com
