"The Greek filmmaker broke out with 2009's Dogtooth, a warped and unsettling portrait of family, but a string of collaborations with Emma Stone turned him into a mainstream hitmaker who has never shed his weird side. After costarring in The Favourite, Stone went on to lead Lanthimos' Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, the black-and-white short film Bleat, and the upcoming Bugonia, a retelling of Save the Green Planet that looks just as stylized and askew as the previous realities they've conjured together."
"The song, one of the many tracks off Fendrix's upcoming album Once Upon A Time... In Shropshire, stars the musician and Stone as a pair of farmers who find their animals transformed into piles of mud. Together, they burn relics of the past in order to renew the flocks with lifeforce. Or something like that? In true Lanthimos fashion, the cryptic narrative maneuvers and bold images lend themselves to plenty of readings of the six-minute fantasy short."
Yorgos Lanthimos gained recognition with Dogtooth and later blended mainstream success with his signature surrealism through repeated collaborations with Emma Stone. Stone starred in The Favourite and led Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, the short Bleat, and the upcoming Bugonia. Jerskin Fendrix, who scored Lanthimos films, released the single 'Beth's Farm' and appears with Stone as farmers confronting animals transformed into piles of mud. The six-minute video shows the pair burning relics to renew flocks, offering cryptic narrative maneuvers and bold imagery open to multiple readings. Fendrix frames his album Once Upon A Time... In Shropshire as a meditation on memory and grief.
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