Björk: Biophilia Live

Björk: 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]

Live album by Björk

Released

24 November 2014

Recorded

3 September 2013 in London, United Kingdom

Genre

Electronic

Length

97:00

Label

One Little Indian

Director

Nick Fenton
Peter Strickland

Björk chronology

Bastards
(2012)

Björk: Biophilia Live
(2014)

Vulnicura
(2015)

Björk video chronology

When Björk Met Attenborough
(2014)

Björk: Biophilia Live
(2014)

Björk: 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 as 3 separate releases (3 x LP + DVD, 2 x CD + DVD, and 2 x CD + 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.	Title	Writer(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"	Björk Damian Taylor	6:05
4.	"Crystalline"	Björk	5:12
5.	"Hollow"	Björk	6:00
6.	"Dark Matter"	Björk Mark Bell	3:05
7.	"Hidden Place"	Björk	5:48
8.	"Virus"	Sjón Björk	5:36
9.	"Possibly Maybe"	Björk	5:07
10.	"Mouth's Cradle"	Björk	4:17
11.	"Isobel"	Björk Marius de Vries Nellee Hooper Sjón	6:12
12.	"Sonnets/Unrealities XI"	Björk E. E. Cummings	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

Disc 1
No.	Title	Writer(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"	Björk Damian Taylor	6:05
4.	"Crystalline"	Björk	5:12
5.	"Hollow"	Björk	6:00
6.	"Dark Matter"	Björk Mark Bell	3:05
7.	"Hidden Place"	Björk	5:48
8.	"Virus"	Sjón Björk	5:36
9.	"Possibly Maybe"	Björk	5:07
10.	"Mouth's Cradle"	Björk	4:17
Total length:			49:16

Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Isobel"	Björk Marius de Vries Nellee Hooper Sjón	6:12
2.	"Sonnets/Unrealities XI"	Björk E. E. Cummings	2:03
3.	"Mutual Core"	Björk	5:18
4.	"Cosmogony"	Sjón Björk	5:23
5.	"Solstice"	Sjón Björk	5:44
6.	"One Day"	Björk	7:10
7.	"Náttúra"	Björk	3:32
8.	"Declare Independence"	Björk Bell	4:55
9.	"Sacrifice"	Björk	5:18
10.	"Bat Sounds" (by Jeremy Deller)	Jeremy Deller	1:39
Total length:			47:08

Charts

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

References

↑ "BJÖRK – BIOPHILIA LIVE (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
↑ "Bjork - Biophilia Live". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
↑ Gordon, Jeremy (28 March 2014). "Björk to Release Biophilia Concert Film". Pitchfork. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
↑ "Bjork's 'Biophilia' Movie Headed to Tribeca". Spin. March 28, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
↑ Pelly, Jenn (17 October 2014). "Björk's Biophilia Live Concert Film Gets Audio Visual DVD/Blu-Ray Release". Pitchfork Music. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
↑ "'biophilia live' available for pre-order". Bjork.com. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
↑ "Björk: Biophilia Live". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
↑ "Björk: Biophilia Live". Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
↑ "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.

External links

Official website
Björk: Biophilia Live at the Internet Movie Database
Björk: Biophilia Live at Box Office Mojo
Björk: Biophilia Live at Rotten Tomatoes
Björk: Biophilia Live at Metacritic
Björk: Biophilia Live at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival

Björk

Discography Tours Awards Songs

Studio albums	Björk (1977) Debut (1993) Post (1995) Homogenic (1997) Vespertine (2001) Medúlla (2004) Volta (2007) Biophilia (2011) Vulnicura (2015)

Soundtracks	Selmasongs Drawing Restraint 9

Compilations	Greatest Hits

Remix albums	The Best Mixes from the Album Debut for All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels Telegram Army of Me: Remixes and Covers Bastards Vulnicura Strings (Vulnicura: The Acoustic Version – Strings, Voice and Viola Organista Only)

Live albums	Debut Live Post Live Homogenic Live Vespertine Live Songs from the Volta Tour Björk: Biophilia Live Vulnicura Live

Box sets	Family Tree Live Box Surrounded Voltaïc

Video albums	Vessel Live at Shepherds Bush Empire Volumen Live in Cambridge MTV Unplugged / Live Live at Royal Opera House Volumen Plus Greatest Hits - Volumen 1993–2003 Later with Jools Holland The Medúlla Videos Later with Jools Holland 1995-2011 Björk: Biophilia Live

Collaboration albums	Gling-Gló Mount Wittenberg Orca

Singles	"Human Behaviour" "Venus as a Boy" "Play Dead" "Big Time Sensuality" "Violently Happy" "Army of Me" "Isobel" "It's Oh So Quiet" "Hyperballad" "Possibly Maybe" "I Miss You" "Jóga" "Bachelorette" "Hunter" "Alarm Call" "All Is Full of Love" "Hidden Place" "Pagan Poetry" "Cocoon" "It's in Our Hands" "Who Is It" "Triumph of a Heart" "Earth Intruders" "Innocence" "Declare Independence" "Wanderlust" "The Dull Flame of Desire" "Náttúra" "The Comet Song" "Crystalline" "Cosmogony" "Virus" "Moon"

Promotional singles	"I've Seen It All" "Oceania" "Where Is the Line"

Other songs	"Bedtime Story" "Unravel" "Pluto" "All Neon Like" "Mutual Core"

Concert tours	Debut Tour Post Tour Homogenic Tour Vespertine World Tour Greatest Hits Tour Volta Tour Biophilia Tour Vulnicura Tour

Films	The Juniper Tree Dancer in the Dark Drawing Restraint 9 Anna and the Moods

Documentaries	Inside Björk Minuscule The Inner or Deep Part of an Animal or Plant Structure When Björk Met Attenborough

Books	Um Úrnat frá Björk Björk Björk: Archives

Bands	Tappi Tíkarrass KUKL The Elgar Sisters The Sugarcubes Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar

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