Beard Song

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Details

Location

kilkeel, Portstewart

Year

2017

Date

Length

03min 47sec

Audio

sound

Format

colour

Source

Produced as part of Britain on Film: Coast and Sea

Courtesy

British Film Institute, Colm Laverty, Malojian, National Museums NI, Tourism NI

Rights Holder

Northern Ireland Screen

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Description

In celebration of Northern Ireland’s coastal life - and as part of the BFI's Britain on Film: Coast and Sea project - Malojian was asked to research, compose, record and produce a musical response to the content of the Digital Film Archive.

The result was an album's worth of captivating music, Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home, and a set of accompanying, archive-inspired music videos directed by Colm Laverty.

"Just because you grow a beard / Doesn't make you cool / Anyone Can do it / It doesn't make you cool / You fool!"

'Beard Song' is a delightfully whimsical offering, tip-toeing piano and delicate trumpet adding a jazz-edge to proceedings, as Scullion gently mocks the artfully hirsute and encourages the balding to accept the hand that nature has dealt.

 

Shot List

Features archive footage from:

Portstewart (1957) and Viking Invasion at Kilkeel (1963) - courtesy of National Museums NI

Credits

Written and Performed by: Malojian

Directed by: Colm Laverty

Produced by: Colm Laverty and Francis Jones  

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