Björk

The ultimate postmodern musical, von Trier’s quirky genre hybrid hinges on a ravishing performance by Icelandic pop star Björk, which makes the most of her innocent vitality. This idiosyncratic fantasy and overpowering tearjerker took home the Palme d’Or at Cannes, along with Best Actress for Björk!

How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel, and traditional Japanese rituals to create an art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, DrawingRestraint 9 (2005). The immersive documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint journeys to Japan with Barney and his collaborator Björk as the visual artist creates a narrative sculpture, telling a fantastical love story of two characters that transform from land mammals into whales.

Meredith Monk, composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist, is one of the great artistic pioneers of our time, yet her profound cultural influence is largely unrecognized. With Monk's music at its center, and featuring interviews with Björk and David Byrne, Monk in Pieces is a mosaic that mirrors the structure of her work, and illuminates her wildly original vocabulary of sound and imagery