Floria Sigismondi first worked with Sigur Ros ten years ago – her classic video for Untitled. And now she joins Sigur Ros’ Valtari Mystery Film Experiment for it’s final installment, with her 12 minute short, Leaning Towards Solace – set to the Sigur Ros’ tracks Dauðalogn and Varúð from the Valtari album. It features Elle [...]
The latest addition to the Valtari Mystery Film Project – Sigur Rós’s open brief to several filmmakers to make a video for a song of their choice from their current album – is a beautiful piece by Christian Larson which combines no less than four songs from the album. It’s also very much a contemporary [...]
The latest film in Sigur Rós’s Valtari Mystery Film Experiment – the tenth now released of films where the Icelandic band gave a group of directors free rein to make a film for a track from the latest album Valtari – is this hypnotic (and ultimately very memorable) piece directed by Nick Abrahams for Ekki Múkk. [...]
This is Ramin Bahrani’s film for Sigur Rós’s Ég anda – the latest offering from the ‘Valtari Mystery Film Experiment’, where various directors were given free rein to make the films they wanted for tracks from the new Sigur Rós album Valtari. (this is, in fact, the second film for Ég anda, following the first [...]
The fourth video in Sigur Rós’s ongoing Valtari Mystery Film Experiment – the project where various filmmakers were given an open brief to make a video for a song from the new album – is by the band’s longtime collaborators and fellow countrymen Arni and Kinski. Arni and Kinski have directed some of Sigur Rós’s [...]
Sigur Rós gave twelve of their favourite filmmakers $10,000 and an open brief to make a video for one of the songs from their new album. Its the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, and Alma Har’el’s contribution to the project – the third film to be released – is the mesmeric, emotional and erotic dance piece [...]
The second part of Sigur Rós’s Valtari Mystery Film Experiment is for Varúð, by Inga Birgisdóttir, an exponent of ‘moving art’. Inga created a piece for the track Ekki Múkk a couple of months ago which took the Valtari album artwork and added the tiniest amount of motion. Here she does something similarly minimal, but [...]
In the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, Sigur Rós have given a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and complete artistic freedom to create any visuals they like to accompany one of the songs from the band’s forthcoming album Valtari (out on June 4). Nearly all the 12 filmmakers working without a brief to a chosen [...]
