Björk live
Tonight, I went to Kino Pod Baranami (Cinema Beneath The Rams; sounds better in Polish) for a special event entitled “In The Mood For Björk”. (Coincidentally, this is the same theatre that I saw Dancer in the Dark with my mom and stepdad back in 1996.) “In The Mood…” included screenings of:
– The Icelandic animated film Anna And The Moods for which Björk does the voice of the main character. (Other voices were done by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame and Damon Alborn of Blur/Gorrilaz/Good,Bad,&TheQueen fame.)
– About 15 of her music videos. Seeing the video for Jòga again reminded me of the work of Robert Seidel who did the video for “Futures” by Zero 7 (feat. José González. Check out Seidel’s _grau. It’s both uncomfortable and beautiful and has a dreamlike quality.
– The evening ended with a recording of Björk live at Cambridge back in 1998.

When the screenings were over, I walked on Rynek Głowny (the main market square in Kraków) and a military band concert was just finishing. There were military and police bands from different places in Poland, as well as (if I remember correctly) Serbia and Lithuania.