Culled from audio/video footage captured during Mogwai’s three-day residency at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY in early 2009), the Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnec-directed film Burning provides for an intimate live experience with a band best known for its ability to shatter sound barriers on a grand scale. 

Yet, instead of taking the easy route and merely highlighting the epic grandiosity so commonly ascribed to the Glaswegian quintet’s music, the directors eschew the clichés by keeping to the somewhat-offbeat. . .