"we never meant our music to come with a pre-programmed emotional response. we don’t want to tell anyone how to feel and what to take from it. with the films, we have literally no idea what the directors are going to come back with. none of them know what the others are doing, so hopefully it could be interesting."
Sigur Rós is the best reason I can think of for one to listen to post-rock music; and they have furthermore put forward a quite fascinating idea. As the above quote from their website suggests, the band invited filmmakers and video directors to visualise music from their latest album Valtari, and gave them full artistic freedom in order to do so. The outcome of the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment has been nothing short of amazing, and the following video is my favourite; it is written and directed by Christian Larson, the choreography is by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and the dancers are James O'Hara and Nicola Leahey. Moreover, a Valtari Film Experiment program, consisting of sixteen short films, will be screened this weekend all over the world; a detailed list of venues and screening times is available here.
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