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Sigur Rós: Heima Sigur Rós: Heima Heima Island Iceland Dokumentarfilme Documentary Films Sigur Rós: Heima Sigur Rós: Heima Heima 2007, 97 Min., DigiBeta, Farbe colour, englische Fas- sung English version Regie Director Dean DeBlois Kamera Camera Alan Calzatti, Gudmundur Magni Ágústsson, Denni Karlsson Schnitt Editing Nick Fenton Musik Music Sigur Rós Mitwirkende Cast Jón Thór Birgisson, Orri Páll D‘yrason, Georg Holm, Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Rós), Hildur Ársælsdóttir, María Huld Markan, Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir, Solrun Sumarlidadóttir (Amiina) Produktion Production John Best, Dean O‘Connor, Klikk Productions Festivalkontakt Festival Contact Icelandic Film Ein Konzertfilm über die Island-Tournee der Band Sigur Rós Centre 2006, mit berauschenden Landschaftsbildern illustriert. Ólafsvík, Ísafjördur, Djúpavík – das sind nicht gerade Namen wie Regisseur Dean DeBlois, geboren 1970 in Kanada, Woodstock, „Rock am Ring“ oder Roskilde. Und dennoch wur- begann seine Laufbahn in der Animationsfilmabtei- de auch hier Pop-Geschichte geschrieben: Im Sommer 2006 be- lung eines Fernsehsenders in Ottawa. Nach dem Ab- schlossen die Musiker der Band Sigur Rós, zum Abchluss einer schluss seines Studiums an der Sheridan Universi- ausgedehnten Welttournee auch in ihrer Heimat aufzutreten. Und ty ging er nach Irland, wo er mit dem Regisseur Don zwar nicht allein in Reykjavik, wie dies die Bands aus dem Ausland Bluth an Filmen wie „A Troll in Central Park“ (1993) normalerweise tun, sondern auch in den kleineren Orten – um und „Thumbelina“ (1994) zusammenarbeitete. 1994 so den Isländern etwas von dem zurückzugeben, was sie ihrem wechselte er als Layouter zur Walt Disney Company, Heimatland verdanken. Denn Island hat die Musik von Sigur Rós war dort Koautor der Animationsfilme „Mulan“ (1998) stark geprägt. Fast scheint es, als würden die sphärischen Klänge und „Lilo & Stitch“ (2002), für den er auch als Koregis- und enigmatischen Sounds geradezu aus der weiten, zerklüfteten seur verantwortlich war. Landschaft erwachsen. Die Auftritte der Band hat Regisseur Dean DeBlois deshalb mit Landschaftsaufnahmen illustriert. Und die Director Dean Dublois, born in 1970 in Canada, be- sind so berauschend großartig geraten, dass man sie unbedingt gan his career in the animation department of a TV auf der großen Kinoleinwand gesehen haben muss. station in Ottawa. After graduating at Sheridan Uni- versity, he went to Ireland where he worked with di- A concert film about the 2006 tour of Iceland by the band rector Don Bluth on films such as “A Troll in Central Sigur Rós – underlined with exhilarating landscape im- Park” (1993) and “Thumbelina” (1994). In 1994 he ages. Ólafsvík, Ísafjördur, Djúpavík – these aren‘t exactly names changed to the Walt Disney Company as a layout- like Woodstock, “Rock am Ring” or Roskilde. But, nevertheless, er, where he became co-author of the animated films music history was made here, too: in the summer of 2006, the “Mulan” (1998) and “Lilo & Stitch“ (2002), the latter musicians of the band Sigur Rós decided to give concerts in their of which he also co-directed. homeland at the end of an extended world tour. And not just in Reykjavik, as bands from abroad normally would, but also in Filme Films smaller places – so as to give back to the Icelandic people a lit- 2002: Lilo & Stitch; 2007: Heima (Home) (Sigur Rós: tle of what they owe to their homeland. Iceland is a great influ- Heima, NFL 2008) ence on the music of Sigur Rós. It almost seems as if the spheri- cal and enigmatic sounds emanate directly from this expansive, craggy landscape. Director Dean Deblois has thus underlined the band‘s appearances with landscape imagery. And these im- ages are so intoxicatingly magnificent that they must be seen on the big cinema screen. Fr 31. Okt. So 02. Nov. 23.15 h - CS 6 20.15 h - CS 6 50. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2008 CS = CineStar | FH = Filmhaus 63.
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