deluxe edition update
30/09/2008

for those wondering about the progress of the deluxe edition of með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust then today brings news of an update.

thank you to everyone for your prolonged patience in sticking around for your copy of the luxurious version of ‘með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. we appreciate it’s been a tad frustrating, since we originally figured you’d all have it about now. but the good news is the calendar watching is about to come to an end. we’ve seen, and held in our hands, an early proof copy of the book, so we can tell that (a) it exists, and (b) it’s turned out a-mazing!

the books are now printed and going through the fiddly production finishing process of inserting the cd, dvd and 16mm film strip into the inside front and back covers. aside from these modest delays, the main reason for you having to hang on a bit longer was – perhaps inevitably – editing delays with the exclusive film, now entitled vid spilum endalaust’.

having made ‘heima’ previously, we should maybe have known that it always takes a little longer to assemble footage into something that feels like a cohesive project so it was with vid spilum endaluast’. we shot the whole thing on a combination of super-8 and dv tape; the former having a great look but no audio track, and the dv useful for picking up dialogue and sound ambience. anyway we dicked around with the resulting footage trying to juxtapose the two competing formats for ages, before deciding to dispense with the digital output and concentrate pretty much wholly on the 8mm film stock.

this took time and put us back in terms of delivery of finished dvds. we’ve got to say sorry for this, but feel that the wait is more than compensated by the fact that the resultant ‘film poem” is in fact supremely good – by our insider opinion a good deal closer to what it set out to be than ‘heima’ even. we hope you agree.

new delivery dates will be between the 17th and 31 st october depending on where you live.

john best

a new trailer for the deluxe edition is available to view here and the deluxe edition is still available for ordering on sigurros.com