Screening of VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT

Thu 06 Dec 2012, 7.30 pm
Goethe Institut

From The Onion Cellar:

The Onion Cellar proudly presents an official showcase of Sigur Rós’ VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT at Goethe Institut Hanoi. The event is organized in collaboration with Hanoi DocLab.

It has been a while since that screening of INNI at Hanoi Cinemathèque. The first ever Onion Cellar event. I had no idea if we would make it this far.

Fast forward to the current days, on the back of a string of exciting Cellar happenings over the last 12 months (and new connections and friendships that mean more to me than any so-called success), it is only fitting to celebrate the ‘one year later’ with another SIGUR RÓS screening. After all, who doesn’t love those Icelandic dreamers?

Upon the release of their latest album Valtari, SIGUR RÓS gave a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the album. The idea was to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. Among the filmmakers are Alma Har’el, Andrea Arnold, Floria Sigismondi, Ramin Bahrani, and John Cameron Mitchell. At the same time, the band invited fans to contribute their own personal creations.

The weekend of December 7 – 9, a VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT program collects at least 17 commissioned “official” and fan-created short films created to coincide with the album VALTARI. The program will screen on all seven continents (including Antarctica). Venues will include cinemas, cinema-like spaces, rock clubs, Native American casinos, hardware stores, hairdresser salons, and beyond.

Free Entry.

No dialogue (the films are music videos)

Sigur Rós – Ekki Mukk