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Sigur Ros – Heima (DVD)
Director: Dean De Blois
Running Time: 314 minutes over two discs
In the summer of 2006, Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland. Disc one of Heima documents their melodic tour, set amongst the backdrop of surely what must be some of the most dramatic, picturesque settings in which live music has ever been performed.
The now legendary tour of their home country combined both the biggest and smallest shows of their career. Fittingly, ‘heima’ is Icelandic for “at home” or “homeland”. The entire tour was filmed, and the end product of what must have been countless hours of editing provides a stunning insight into what many consider to be a somewhat reclusive, and certainly least understood bands.
The tour takes in ghost towns, outsider art shrines, national parks, small community halls and the remote highland wilderness, in addition the largest gig in Icelandic history at the group’s homecoming Reykjavik show.
Director Dean De Blois became involved in the project when he was asked to take a look at the bands troubled beginnings of a film and offer some feedback. His background is in animation, but the results of his transition to feature documentary are to be commended.
Heima features performances of songs from all four Sigur Rós albums, as well as two exclusive new songs: guitardjamm and the Icelandic traditional aferd til breidarfjardar 1922, performed with poet Steindor Andersen.
I thoroughly recommend that you pick up the special edition double DVD package if you can find it. It contains the feature film on disc one, along with a 116-page book containing some beautiful photos of the tour, whilst the second disc contains the full performances of each song in the movie and many other extras.
It’s beautiful to watch with the sound off, it’s stunning to listen to with the TV off. Combine the two and you have a unique, modern masterpiece.
