This clip “film #2: Varúð ” is part of a project called Sigur Rós mystery film experiment. That’s about twelve releases from the band, with different directors creating short films for all the eight tracks from the new album “Valtari”(in english it translates as “steamroller”).
 
The video for the highly beautiful song Varúð was directed by the talented director Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir(Jónsi’s sister), who was also responsible for the new album artwork (using the same technique of this clip). She was graduated from the Icelandic Academy of Art in 2006 and made album covers and music videos for Múm, Jónsi, Sin fang, Sóley and many more. She just premiered her first documentary called Grandma lo-fi.
 
I made the video by animating a postcard and filmed myself over and over again climbing on top of a woodenbox in front of some blue paper.” She says also that was inspired by the song title, Varúð means “caution” or “warning” so this image instantly came to her mind: someone making warning signs with a flashlight. So the video was thought to have a slow build up, like the song and leave something for the viewers to imagine for themselves.
 
The starting point of this moving art’s work is a vintage postcard from Öxaráfoss, the amazing waterfall near the Almannagjá’s gorge in the National Park of Iceland: Þingvellir. So the visuals are based on a basic fixed image changing in seasons, and human figures can be seen among the rocks communicating in a special bright morse code that seems a paranormal language. Good choice, the singing of Jónsi is much more closer to the melancholic wail of an alien than to an human language.

Sigur Rós – Varúð

Artist: Sigur Rós
Direction:
Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir
Techniques:
motion picture, animating postcard
What's Cool:
pure visual poetry from Iceland.
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June 20th, 2012


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