“Staggeringly beautiful…Top 10 Greatest Ever Concert Movies”—The Observer.

HEIMA a film by Sigur Rós
ICELAND 2007 // Director: Dean DeBlois // 97 min // HD

VANCOUVER PREMIERE • VANCITY THEATRE EXCLUSIVE
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE!

April 18-20 // 7:15, 9:30

Last year, 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 now 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 album Takk, 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.

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’.

Directed by Canadian animator Dean DeBlois (Lilo and Stitch) and shot using a largely Icelandic crew 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, never less than epic in its ambition.

“As moving as it is magical…Sigur Rós have reinvented the rock film…5 stars”—Q magazine.

Co-presented with The Images Festival (Toronto) with thanks to Zulu Records, Beggars Group Canada, XL Recordings, Jeremy Hammond, Dean O’Connor and Charlotte Mickie.

Screeners available

Director Dean DeBlois is available for interviews

Official Site

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Interview with director Dean DeBlois

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