Colonel Blimp

A contemporary take on Lady Macbeth, summoning up her demons. A mix of live action and animation.

Tuning into some foreign channels you never know what you'll find. On one such show the presenter introduces a live magic trick where a man is going to be cut in half by a woman. Not only that though, he will be cut with a chainsaw. Not only that though, she will be wearing a blindfold while performing the trick. However it is not quite as professional as it seems.

Björk is crouched in a womb-like Icelandic cave, throwing her body against the stones that surround her. Slowly, she starts dancing triumphantly through corridors of black volcanic rock. This MoMA-commissioned film was directed by visual guru Andrew Thomas Huang and filmed over three days in Björk’s native Iceland. In the film, her intimate, one-on-one performance embodies the grueling post-heartbreak healing process, augmented by Huang’s stunning VFX.

The Actor was inspired by the late 2000s boom of US screen-acting and method-acting seminars, which Robbie Williams alludes to in the lyrics to the eponymous track. Remember... it's not acting it's reacting!