After her solo diversion as Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer Andersson is back with The Knife – her band with brother Olof Dreijer – and evidently making some uncompromisingly quirky electronic music. Full Of Fire, from the new album Shaking The Habitual, is accompanied by an equally intriguing/challenging film by Stockholm and Berlin-based filmmaker and visual artist Marit Östberg, which explores some of the less conventional branches of sexuality…

“The film Full of Fire started to grow as an embryo in the song´s lines: ‘Who looks after my story’. Who takes care of our stories when the big history, written by straight rich white men, erase the complexity of human´s lives, desires and conditions?” says the director, who contributed a film to controversial 2009 Swedish feminist porn compilation Dirty Diaries (which includes music by Fever Ray).

“The film consists of a network of fates, fears, cravings, longings, losses, and promises. Fates that at first sight seem isolated from each other, but if we pay attention, we can see that everything essentially moves into each other. Our lives are intertwined and our eyes on each other, our sounds and smells, mean something. Our actions create reality, we create each other. We are never faceless, not even in the most grey anonymous streets of the city. We will never stop being responsible, being extensions, of one another. We will never stop longing for each other, and for something else.”

The Knife
Full Of Fire (Rabid Records)
Director: Marit Östberg
Producer: Rabid Records
DoP: Liz Rosenfeld
Camera Asst: Paula Alamillo
Casting: Siri Hjorton Wagner
Editor: Marit Östberg
Watch at: theknife.net