Biophilia Live | When Bjork Met Attenborough

For our evening double feature, we’ll take science beyond film and into sound and music with Bjork’s spectacular concert film Biophilia Live, and a documentary taking us to the ideas and technology that made it all possible.

“Björk’s concert film is a remarkable document of a remarkable artist still impossible to pigeonhole.” — NME

Biophilia Live | 97 min | UK | 2014

Directed by Nick Fenton

Hi-tech and all-natural, Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland’s ‘coloured-in’ concert recording from the last night of Björk’s 2013. Biophilia tour is a psychedelic tour de force. This groundbreaking concert film captures the final night of Bjork’s multi-year Biophilia tour as performance, video, and live instrumentation — digital, traditional, or completely unclassifiable — combine in a audiovisual experience like no other. Before co-directing Biophilia Live, Nick Fenton edited live concert documentaries on the Arctic Monkeys and the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, as well as features including Richard Aoyade’s The Double and Submarine.

When Bjork Met Attenborough | 48 min | UK | 2013

Directed by Louise Hooper

Originally screened in the UK last summer on Channel 4, ‘When Björk Met Attenborough’ is a documentary which follows Björk and Attenborough as they investigate and discuss the connection which exists between music and nature. Narrated by Tilda Swinton and inspired by Börk’s technological project Biophilia, which Attenborough provided a spoken introduction for, the film is a unique encounter between two of the most iconic thinkers of our time.

Opening Remarks by Louise Hopper – Director of When Bjork Met Attenborough

Imagine Science Film Festival is presented in partnership with NYUAD Institute.