Björk concert film 'Biophilia' embellished with animation, nature scenes

October 16, 2014 at 7:36PM
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“Bjork: Biophilia Live” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Björk: Biophilia Live

Monday: Is a concert film of Björk, Icelandic fairy princess of musical unconventionality and delightfully bizarre costumes, worth an $18 ticket? British directors Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland — responsible for the mesmerizingly weird suspense indie film "Berberian Sound Studio" — have pulled out all the phantasmagoric stops they could dream up to make it so. "Björk: Biophilia Live," already an extravagant audiovisual affair featuring a 14-member women's choir and custom instruments including a Tesla coil that descends from the ceiling, is ramped up further with animated sequences, scenes from nature and found footage that Pitchfork calls "mind-blowing" and the comparatively restrained Wall Street Journal modifies to "a magical evening." Taken in toto, the project "explores the relationships between musical structures and natural phenomena — atomic, cellular and cosmic." Yep, sounds like our girl. (7 p.m. Mon., $18, Heights Theater, 3951 Central Av. NE., Mpls., www.eventbrite.com)

Kristin Tillotson

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