Fans of Bjork, Mum, Sigur Ros, and other Icelandic musicians have a new reason to scream. A new video has already hit shelves on March 6 2007, a documentary about the Icelandic music scene, called “Screaming Masterpiece”.Pitchfork Headline Bureau still defiantly anti-accent marks Björk, Sigur Rós, the Sugarcubes, Múm, and Amiina are among the high-profile artists showcased in Screaming Masterpiece, a documentary about the Icelandic music scene that will hit DVD shelves at last March 6 via Milan Records.
Writer and director Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon used the film to explore the scene’s history through tour footage and in-depth interviews. The resulting 87-minute DVD comes with over two hours of extra interviews.
Screaming Masterpiece has appeared at over 20 international film festivals, and was also part of our own pre-Pitchfork Music Festival film screenings last summer.
