Heima
I just finished watching Sigur Rós’s film Heima. Part rockumentary, part surrealist Icelandic travelogue, part music video; it’s a beautiful thing.
In 2006, having toured the world over, Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts in Iceland. Heima is a unique record of that tour filmed in 16 locations across the island, taking in the biggest and smallest shows of the band’s career. ‘Heima’ is a 97 minute documentary feature film including songs from all four Sigur Rós albums alongside previously unreleased material.
Sigur Rós’s undeniably atmospheric “slow motion rock music” gives elegance and poise to the simple, the mundane, and the unadorned. Heima applies the same romance of the common to the chronicle of a band playing small shows in small towns to small crowds.
Get it, watch it, and do what you will to support people who make the world a more breathtaking place.