Movie Night: An Island -. May 21st 21:00 CET
Please join us Thursday this week (May 21st) at 21:00 CET for the screening of An Island on 4ADs YouTube channel. We’ll be ready with popcorn in the chatforum.
This film is very dear to us. Lots of memories from making it with Vincent Moon on our home island of Als and also from the more than 1000 Private-Public Screenings that followed after its premiere in 2011. We also took the film on tour screening it before our shows on the 2011 European Magic Chairs tour.
An Island (2011) - a film by Efterklang and Vincent Moon
-screening on YouTube on 21st May 2020.
In August 2010, French filmmaker Vincent Moon and Efterklang's 8 piece-live band met up on an island off the Danish coast. The objective was to shoot a film. A film with the same length as an album, and a film full of performances, experiments and collaborations. Over an intense period of 4 days Efterklang collaborated with more than 200 local musicians, kids and their own parents, creating new performances and interpretations of songs from their album 'Magic Chairs' (4AD, Rumraket 2010). It was all filmed by Vincent Moon who same time conducted several filmic and musical experiments with Efterklang as his dedicated playmates.
'An Island' premiered January 31st 2011 and the following two months the film was screened for more than 50.000 people via 1178 Private-Public Screenings in private homes around the world. The Private-Public Screening idea was developed by Efterklang and Vincent Moon and the rules are very simple. Anyone can host a screening as long as it is public with a minimum capacity of 5 people and free entrance.
The Guardian *****: "The film 'An Island' is a heartwarmingly soulful portrait of the band in their natural habitat on the small Baltic island of Als"
Music performed by Efterklang’s 8 piece live-band anno 2010: Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, Thomas Husmer, Rasmus Stolberg, Niklas Antonson, Frederik Teige, Heather W. Broderick, Peter Broderick and guests.
Directed and filmed by Vincent Moon
Produced by: Rasmus Stolberg
Edited by Lucas Archambault & Vincent Moon
Recordings by: Anders Boll & Nils Frahm
Audio mix: Mads Brauer & Nils Frahm
Still photography by: Antje Taiga Jandrig
