Björk Launching ‘Cornucopia’: New Concert Film Addresses Climate Issues

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominated songwriter Björk previewed a clip from her new movie Cornucopia at Climate Week today.

The 16x Grammy nominee and Cannes Film Festival winning actress is the creative director on the feature which is in post. The Cornucopia concert was filmed live in Lisbon, Portugal, and it illustrates the singer’s activism to address the climate crisis. Most recently, she collaborated with Rosalía on a song titled “Oral” and dedicated 100% of the proceeds to fund a series of legal actions aimed at combating intensive farm fishing.

Cornucopia is produced by Snowstorm, S101, Level Forward and Foobar.

The singer told Deadline, in her own words the following about the project:

“it is an emergency

in order to survive as a species we need to define our utopia

the Paris climate accord is a modern utopia impossible to imagine

but overcoming our environmental challenges is the only way

we can survive

we have to imagine something that doesn’t exist carve intentionally into the future

and demand space for hope

weave a matriarchal dome

let’s imagine a world where nature and technology collaborate and make a song about ita musical mockup

then move into it

let’s write music for our destination

in mythologies around the world after a disaster one captures the spirit with a flute and starts anew

carved out of the first fauna

we arrive on a new island with mutant species unknown hybrids of birds and plants

our past is on loop, turn it off

let ́s be intentional about the light

imagine a future be in it”

Details about the release of Cornucopia will be announced by the end of the year.

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Björk was Oscar nominated for the Best Original Song in 2001, “I’ve Seen It All” from the musical movie Dancer in the Dark. She starred in the Lars Von Trier directed pic, and wrote the songs and won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.