Björk: Biophilia Live

Biophilia Live

Official poster
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
Release dates
  • 26 April 2014 (2014-04-26) (Tribeca)
  • 17 October 2014 (2014-10-17)
Running time
 96 minutes[1]
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Box office $433,686[2]
Biophilia Live
Live album by Björk
Released 24 November 2014 (2014-11-24)
Recorded 3 September 2013 in London, United Kingdom
Genre Electronic
Length 97:00
Label
Director
  • Nick Fenton
  • Peter Strickland
Björk chronology
Bastards
(2012)		 Biophilia Live
(2014)		 Vulnicura
(2015)
Björk video chronology
When Björk Met Attenborough
(2014)		 Biophilia Live
(2014)

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[3][4] 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.[5][6]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 74% based on reviews from 19 critics, with an average score of 6.5/10.[7] Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 67 (out of 100) based on 6 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable reviews."[8]

Track listings

DVD / Blu-ray

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Oskasteinn" (Narrated by David Attenborough, sung by Graduale Nobili)Traditional 2:50
2. "Thunderbolt"  
  • Björk
  • Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir
5:22
3. "Moon"  
 6:05
4. "Crystalline"  Björk 5:12
5. "Hollow"  Björk 6:00
6. "Dark Matter"  
 3:05
7. "Hidden Place"  Björk 5:48
8. "Virus"  
 5:36
9. "Possibly Maybe"  Björk 5:07
10. "Mouth's Cradle"  Björk 4:17
11. "Isobel"  
 6:12
12. "Sonnets/Unrealities XI"  
 2:03
13. "Mutual Core"  Björk 5:18
14. "Cosmogony"  
  • Sjón
  • Björk
 5:23
15. "Solstice"  
  • Sjón
  • Björk
 5:44
16. "One Day"  Björk 7:10
17. "Náttúra"  Björk 3:32
18. "Declare Independence"  
  • Björk
  • Bell
 4:55
19. "Sacrifice"  Björk 5:18
20. "Bat Sounds" (by Jeremy Deller, end credits)Jeremy Deller 1:39
Total length:
 96:24
Bonus video footage
No. Title Length
1. "Biophilia at Miraikan"   8:10

CD

Charts

Chart (2014) Peak
position
Italian Music DVD (FIMI)[9] 2

References

  1. ↑ "BJÖRK – BIOPHILIA LIVE (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Bjork - Biophilia Live". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Gordon, Jeremy (28 March 2014). "Björk to Release Biophilia Concert Film". Pitchfork. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Bjork's 'Biophilia' Movie Headed to Tribeca". Spin. March 28, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ Pelly, Jenn (17 October 2014). "Björk's Biophilia Live Concert Film Gets Audio Visual DVD/Blu-Ray Release". Pitchfork Music. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "'biophilia live' available for pre-order". Bjork.com. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Björk: Biophilia Live". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Björk: Biophilia Live". Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  9. ↑ "DVD Musicali — Classifica settimanale WK 48 (dal 24-11-2014 al 30-11-2014)" (in Italian). Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Retrieved 3 May 2012.

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