Film at Eleven

I briefly mentioned Matthew Barney’s new film, Drawing Restraint 9 some time ago, noting that Björk was writing the soundtrack for the film and remarking that a Björk/Barney collaboration would be well worth seeing.

According to Culture Vulture:

[Björk] and Barney play visitors aboard a Japanese whaling ship carrying a shape-shifting sculpture of liquid vaseline. Barney and Björk, dressed for reasons best know to themselves in “mammal fur costumes”, are taking part in a tea ceremony below deck when it’s rudely interrupted by a flood of said gunk from above. They do what anyone would do in such circumstances: start breathing through blowholes on the back on their necks and cut off each other’s feet to reveal whale tails.

There is an article on bjork.com that goes into a fair bit more detail and - at the bottom of the page - includes extracts from the songs from the soundtrack, which is released on July 25th.

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