Björk's performance on MTV Unplugged, reinterpreting songs from her first solo album, Debut, with an array of acoustic arrangements.

Following the career of Björk, this documentary looks at her early musical career with local icelandic bands, her acclaimed stint in The Sugarcubes, and her massive success as a free-spirited solo artist.

Although at first sight this might look like a simple ‘making of DANCER IN THE DARK’, the later developments in the film reveal the whole drama of Lars von Trier’s inner life during the shooting process. All his doubts and insecurities in collaborating with the crew and actors - especially actresses - are exposed. The biggest drama started when Björk walked off the set. Nobody knew whether she would be back or not. Admitting that he feels threatened by women, who can ‘make him feel embarrassed’, the director gives this documentary the nature of a personal diary. When he discusses the importance, purpose and beauty of the use of a hundred cameras in a certain sequence or the meaning of the Dogma 95 rules, the audience is witnessing the process of the artist’s search. Is the pain that the director went through during the shooting really visible in the final result, as Lars von Trier claims in this film? (from: http://www.idfa.nl/)

Product Details
Actors: Björk, Bjork
Format: Color, Live, NTSC
Language: English
Rating:
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Elektra / Wea
VHS Release Date: December 15, 1998
ASIN: 6305223378
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #65,299 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

This documentary presents the desire for a renewal in discussion and debate on Icelandic resources; a desire for bridges between different spheres of knowledge, news, composition and productive ideas on self-sustainable evolution, on cluster of start-up companies and other ways than heavy industry.

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

A documentary about the inspiration of director Michel Gondry. An extraordinary world where onirism, memories and childhood have the utmost importance.

Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her time. In her seventh decade of creativity, she ponders how her unique work can continue without her.

Tracks: Hunter, Come To Me, All Neon Like, You’ve Been Flirtin, Isobel, Immature, Play Dead, Alarm Call, Human Behaviour, Bachelorette, Hyper Ballad, Pluto, Anchor Song, Joga. A fantastic live performance caught of Bjork live at Cambridge in 1998.

Björk: Cornucopia, the highly anticipated concert film recorded live in Lisbon, captures the celebrated artist’s groundbreaking tour that mesmerised audiences worldwide for five years.
This unique cinematic experience immerses viewers in Björk’s spectacular stage production, featuring a setlist spanning her iconic early works to the visionary Utopia (2017) and Fossora (2023). The production showcases bespoke instruments, including a magnetic harp, a circular flute, an aluphone, and a reverb chamber, and Björk is furthermore joined on stage by musical director and multi-instrumentalist Bergur Þórisson, percussionist Manu Delago, flute septet Viibra, harpist Katie Buckley and the Hamrahlid choir. Digitally animated moving curtains create a modern lanterna magica for live music, transforming 21st-century VR visuals into the grandeur of a 19th-century theatre — and now into an immersive cinema experience, enhanced by meticulously crafted Dolby Atmos spatial audio.
Directed by Ísold Uggadóttir, the film features sound and visual creative direction, music arrangements, production, and performance by Björk. It showcases the work of James Merry as co-creative director of visuals, and original animation by Tobias Gremmler – with additional contributions from Andrew Thomas Huang, Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, Pierre-Alain Giraud, Nick Knight, and Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton-Jones.
Cornucopia sees Björk pushing the boundaries of live performance, offering a visually and sonically immersive experience unlike anything seen before.

"As audiences could see for themselves in a special screening series organised by the Austrian Film Museum in November 2011, Benning’s more recent films move in several directions simultaneously. He picks up on older projects, reworks them, yet at times leaves these behind and makes an utterly fresh start – striking a strange equilibrium between continuity and a new slant on particular models of film aesthetics.
Benning has been viewed over the past decade as the USA’s landscape filmmaker par excellence, and at first it seems bewildering to find he has now turned his attention to phenomena of the digital world such as Web 2.0. In »YouTube Trilogy« (2011), Benning organised found material around three thematic clusters which apparently have little in common. The first section focuses on children of various religious affiliations singing: »Agnus Dei« in the crystal-clear voice of a boy from the Vienna Boys’ Choir, two girls singing a »Shalom« song, a teenager belting out into Leonard Cohen’s »Hallelujah« and a solo of an Arabic song by a young girl. These young people making music in a range of formats produce different types of intimacy. Whilst the Vienna Boys Choir piece is clearly taken from a television recording and exudes a sense of the official nature of the event, most of the other videos bear the hallmarks of youthful (YouTube-style) self-staging. These tensions function in a sense as a prelude to Benning’s attempt to give shape to a kind of concealed artistic autobiography by compiling and processing found video clips. He describes this part of the film as »my own sketchy tongue-in-cheek history«2 and thus establishes an arc of narrative tension underpinning what at first sight seem to be unconnected snippets – a man describes how a pistol works, President Eisenhower gives a speech, someone tries on a blue dress in a yellow window frame. Nonetheless the clips, filmed directly from the computer screen, function not so much in terms of what nonetheless remains an arbitrary combination but rather through the prism of the unique character of each scene. That makes the autonomy asserted by Benning even more questionable; while he claims authorial sovereignty over the digital found pieces, this ultimately gives rise to an idiosyncratic cryptograph. In the third section – with the deliberately attention-grabbing title »Asian Girls« – Benning picks up on the issue of the Internet’s typical categorisations, yet struggles to shift these categories away from the terrain of stereotype. "

★ MV導演系列為您再推薦今年度推出的四位享譽全球MV導演當中的最後一位 STEPHANE SEDNAOUI。
★ STEPHANE 經由時尚大師JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER的引薦之下進入這五光十色的娛樂世界，在21歲的時候STEPHANE便開始與攝影師WILLIAM KLEIN合作，22歲時STEPHANE便開始成為專業的攝影師，自1985年開始STEPHANE獨特風格之攝影作品遍?迅鞔髸r尚雜誌、平面?V告、新聞攝影之間也同時為名流拍攝肖像，STEPHANE也?u?u成為當代攝影藝術大師。
★ 他所拍攝執導的音樂錄影帶當中以1992年為RED HOT CHILI PEPERS嗆辣紅椒樂團所拍攝的單曲 "GIVE IT AWAY" 讓他囊獲當年MTV音樂獎。 而與STEPHANE合作過的藝人還包括 : U2, R.E.M., Neneh Cherry, Alanis Morrisette, Tricky, Garbage, Massive Attack, Mirwais 和 Bjork...


DVD 內收錄:

音樂錄影帶 Music Videos:
Can't Wait Mirwais
For Real Tricky
Scar Tissue Red Hot Chili Peppers
Disco Science Mirwais
Lotus R.E.M
Possibly Maybe Bjork

Ironic Alanis Morissette
Pumpkin Tricky
Queer Garbage
Hell Is Around The Corner Tricky
Sly Massive Attack
Seven Seconds Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry
Big Time Sensuality Bjork
Big Time Sensuality (new night version) Bjork

Sometimes Salvation The Black Crowes
Mysterious Ways U2
Give It Away Red Hot Chili Peppers
Le Monde De Demain NTM
Discotheque (director's cut) U2

執導短片Shorts:
Army of Me Animation inspired by Bjork's song
Aqua Natasa Short film featuring Natasa Vojnovic

Reve Reche Stephane's first short film attempt

藝人專訪與花絮Interviews and Commentaries:
全長34分29秒的藝人專訪包括 : Bjork, Bono, Jean Paul Gaultier, Michael Stipe, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shirley Manson, Tricky 及 Stephane為紐約大學電影學院的演講畫面


內附56頁彩頁導演手冊 56-page color book:
Diary of photos, storyboards, sketches and comments.

22 April 2007 (Season 32, Episode 18)

威尼斯日单元特别展映
As part of a personal quest, for over 30 years director Hermann Vaske filmed the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers, including over 50 luminaries, among them Academy Award and Nobel Prize winners, from the fields of visual art, music, acting, philosophy, politics, business and science, posing the question: "Why are you creative?" Vaske's subjects include: David Bowie, Ai Weiwei, Björk, Wim Wenders, Philippe Stark, Yoko Ono, John Hegarty, David Lynch, Yohji Yamamoto, Damien Hirst, Angelina Jolie, Nobuyoshi Araki, Quentin Tarantino, Bono, Nick Cave, Neo Rauch, Stephen Hawkins, the Dalai Lama, Peter Ustinov, Marina Abramovic, Diane Kruger, Julian Schnabel, John Cleese, Jimmy Page, Vivienne Westwood, Takeshi Kitano and many others.

A documentary that follows Björk and the making of her new album "Medúlla." Features the singing/beatboxing talents of Shlomo, Rahzel, Tanya Tagaq, Dokaka, Mike Patton, and Björk herself. Filmed all over the world, "The Inner or Deep Part of a Plant or Animal Structure" is a documentary you won't want to miss. Written by Sal Profaci

How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, Drawing Restraint 9. The documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint journeys to Japan with Barney and his collaborator Bjork, as the visual artist creates a "narrative sculpture" telling a fantastical love story of two characters that transform from land mammals into whales.

Music Videos
The Hardest Button To Button – THE WHITE STRIPES
Come Into My World – KYLIE MINOGUE
Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground – THE WHITE STRIPES
Fell In Love With A Girl – THE WHITE STRIPES
Star Guitar – THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
Joga – BJORK
Deadweight – BECK
Bachelorette – BJORK
Everlong – FOO FIGHTERS
Around The World – DAFT PUNK
Sugar Water – CIBO MATTO
Hyperballad – BJORK
Like A Rolling Stone – THE ROLLING STONES
Army Of Me – BJORK
Isobel – BJORK
Protection – MASSIVE ATTACK
Lucas With The Lid Off – LUCAS
Human Behavior – BJORK
Le Mia – I AM
La Tour De Pise – JEAN FRANCOIS COEN
Ma Maison – OUI OUI
Bolide – OUI OUI
Junior Et Sa Voix D’Or – OUI OUI
Les Cailloux – OUI OUI
Un Joyeux Noel – OUI OUI
La Ville – OUI OUI
Shorts/Documentaries
I’ve Been 12 Forever (part 2 Age 12-12) - A 75 minute film, including interviews with Michel, the artists and collaborators, as well as extensive behind the scenes footage, drawings and storyboards.
I’ve Been 12 Forever (Part 1 Age 12 – 12)
Stories & Things
"La Lettre"
"One Day"
"Lacuna Inc"
"Drugstore" Levi’s Commercial
"Smarienberg" Schmirnoff Commercial
"Resignation" Polaroid Commercial
"Drumb & Drumber"
"Pecan Pie" - A short film starring Jim Carrey
"Three Dead People"
"My Brother’s 24th Birthday"
"Tiny"
"Spin Art"
Oui Oui Livec concert footage
And more...
Includes a 52 page color book
of Michel’s stories, drawings, photographs & interviews.

2003 Film