Jerskin Fendrix, the cult musician who sprung from London’s indie scene to international renown via his work with Yorgos Lanthimos, has reunited with the director and Emma Stone for a new video. Having scored Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, and Lanthimos’ forthcoming movie Bugonia, Fendrix is preparing to release his new album, Once Upon a Time… in Shropshire, on October 10, via Untitled (Recs). From it comes “Beth’s Farm,” with the six-minute video below. In the short, Fendrix plays a farmer who unearths strange goings-on around the grounds, and, joined by Stone, sets in motion some even stranger goings-on to resolve them.
In a statement, Lanthimos said, “It was lovely to team up again with Emma and a number of people that we have been working with for quite a while to contribute a bit of film narrative to what I think is a remarkable second personal album by our very important artistic collaborator and friend, Jerskin Fendrix.”
“Beth’s Farm,” released with the album announcement last month, is the opener of Once Upon a Time… in Shropshire. The album follows Fendrix’s 2020 debut, Winterreise. He’s described it as “10 folk songs about life and death in the countryside,” and its title refers to his English home country.
Bugonia will premiere at Venice Film Festival next month. The movie, starring Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone, hits theaters on Friday, October 24.
