{"id":15146,"date":"2014-04-19T02:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T01:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15146"},"modified":"2014-04-19T02:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T01:06:18","slug":"the-beard-a-film-by-ian-emes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/04\/19\/the-beard-a-film-by-ian-emes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beard, a film by Ian Emes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Beard<\/em><\/a> (1978) is a short, surreal animated film, directed by Ian Emes<\/a> and based on an idea and illustrations by Peter Till<\/a>. Electronic musician Adrian Wagner provided the soundtrack. I’d been looking for this on YouTube for a while, hoping to see it again. It’s a great piece of work, opening in a comical fashion when a shaving man (voiced by William Rushton) finds his beard taking on a life of its own, then turning increasingly nightmarish. A low-res copy sourced from video tape does no justice to the detailed drawings but it’s still worth a watch.<\/p>\n

Somewhat better known, if not quite so strange, is Martin Scorsese’s student film, The Big Shave<\/em> (1967), which may be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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