Björk: Biophilia Live
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| Directed by | Nick Fenton Peter Strickland |
| Produced by | Jacqui Edenbrow |
| Starring | Björk |
| Music by | Björk |
| Cinematography | Brett Turnbull |
| Edited by | Nick Fenton |
| Distributed by | Cinema Purgatorio |
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96 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $433,686 |
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| Released | 24 November 2014 | |||
| Recorded | 3 September 2013 in London, United Kingdom | |||
| Genre | Electronic | |||
| Length | 97:00 | |||
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Biophilia Live is a 2014 British concert film by Björk, directed and edited by Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton. The film features Björk performing tracks from her Biophilia Tour, which started in June 2011 and ended in September 2013. It was filmed at Alexandra Palace in London on 3 September 2013, and had a theatrical premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on 26 April 2014 with screenings across the world throughout the same year.
The film was released on home video in 3 separate editions (3xLP + DVD, 2xCD + DVD, and 2xCD + Blu-ray) on 25 November 2014.
The Biophilia Tour began on 27 June 2011 at the Manchester International Festival and spanned 3 years. Several innovate instruments were created and utilized for the tour, including a musical Tesla coil, a midi-controlled gamelan-celesta hybrid, a pendulum harp and perhaps the concert's most unwieldy instrument, The Sharpsichord created by Henry Dagg in the UK. Björk chose a very specific format for the tour to show off all the instruments and create an intimate feeling: she and the musicians would be on a circular stage at the center of the venue and the audience would form all around them, free to move about and get a look at the various instruments placed throughout different parts of the stage.
The in the round format proved the single greatest challenge for filmmakers Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland when they co-directed the last in the round show of the Biophilia Tour, particularly where to place the 16 HD cameras. “Brett Turnbull was the head cinematographer and it was a big job for him to make sure we wouldn’t disturb the performers or the audience with our presence,” said Strickland. The film was shot on a mixture of Alexa and Red Epic cameras.
"In my mind we were clearly there to serve Björk's vision,” continued Strickland. He initially wanted to use nature photography from the 1970s but revealed that Björk “was cautious of going down a retro path. She didn’t want to have a romantic view of nature. She wanted something modern and clinical... For me, it’s about marveling at the universe on an infinite and microscopic level and finding these connections. We tried to introduce this by having highly magnified tissue cells and linking them with overhead shots of forests and sand dunes. Visually they almost look identical.”
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