‘Ég anda’ by Sigur Rós

The latest entry to the band’s Valtari Mystery Film Experiment sees the director of the critically acclaimed Chop Shop and Goodbye Solo, Ramin Bahrani, contribute his silky digital clarity to the soothing reprieve of ‘Ég anda’.

Conflating ever-so-slightly underexposed images of animals with human industry and mechanisation, it offers a somewhat damning environmental commentary, which is in-keeping with his similarly ecology-minded films Chop Shop and Plastic Bag. Those final images involving a floundering fish slowly suffocating on a concrete slab while the ghosts of animals-past are superimposed on top are just about as unambiguous as you can get.