Björk’s previews climate change-focused concert film, Cornucopia

Björk shared previews of her upcoming concert film, Cornucopia, at a Climate Week event in New York last week.

The experimental Icelandic artist revealed early footage of the self-directed feature, filmed during the Lisbon stop on her Cornucopia world tour, which debuted in New York in 2019, Deadline reports. The film focuses on the climate crisis as part of Björk’s ongoing activist efforts. It’s produced by Snowstorm, S101, Level Forward and Foobar, and more details are expected to be revealed by the end of the year.

Björk shared the following statement about the Cornucopia film with Deadline: 

“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”

Earlier this year, the Björk-narrated documentary Fungi: The Web Of Life was released. (She refers to her last album, 2022’s ‘Fossora‘ as her “mushroom album”.) In 2023, she released a collaborative track with Rosalía in protest of fish farming in Iceland.