In the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, 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 provides a unique insight into one of the world’s shyest and least understood bands captured live in their natural habitat.The culmination of more than a year spent promoting their hugely successful “Takk...” album around the world, the Icelandic tour was free to all-comers and went largely unannounced. Playing in deserted fish factories, outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened caves and the hoof print of Odin’s horse, Sleipnir, the band reached an entirely new spectrum of the Icelandic population; young and old, ardent and merely quizzical, entirely by word-of-mouth.The question of the way Sigur Rós’s music relates to, and is influenced by, their environment has been reduced to a journalistic cliché about glacial majesty and fire and ice, but there is no doubt that the band are inextricably linked to the land in which they were forged. And the decision to film this first-ever Sigur Rós film in Iceland was, in the end, ineluctable.Shot using a largely Icelandic crew (to minimize Eurovision-style scenic-wonder overload), Heima – which means both “at home” and “homeland” – is an attempt to make a film every bit as big, beautiful and unfettered as a Sigur Rós album. As such it was always going to be something of a grand folio, but one, which taking in no fewer than 15 locations around Iceland (including the country’s largest ever concert at the band’s Reykjavik homecoming), is never less than epic in its ambition.Material from all four of the band’s albums is featured, including many rare and notable moments. Among these are a heart-stopping rendition of the previously unreleased “Gitardjamm”, filmed inside a derelict herring oil tank in the far West Fjords; a windblown, one-mic recording of “Vaka”, shot at a dam protest camp subsequently drowned by rising water; and first time acoustic versions of such rare live beauties as “Staralfur”, “Agaetis Byrjun”, and “Von”.
Ethereal post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós play a string of impromptu gigs in their native Iceland after finishing a world tour in 2006. As they travel through the country, the band visits a wide variety of venues, from a large outdoor festival to a coffee shop.
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GorgeousThis is the film that made me into the biggest Sigur Ros fan on earth. I stumbled upon "Heima" totally by chance, one day, when I was sick. I was mesmerized by the band's opening song, "Glosoli" and the way they played behind a thin veil that projected shadows bigger than life. At that moment, Pink Floyd's "The Wall" came to mind and I was hooked. If you're even remotely interested in Sigur Ros, fast-forward to their heart-stopping rendition of "Von," played acoustically in front of family and friends. It'll change your life. 😌.Score: 5/5
Just perfectI was waiting for years till the HD version came out in the States, and oh my god, so great. Music is perfect. Atmosphere you get from all the quiet Icelandic people is amazing. The scenery is indeed worthy of the beauty of the people and the music behind this piece. If you are in the mood for something beautiful, and epic in its truest sense, this is the music-movie for you..Score: 5/5
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