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Viagra Boys 'Bog Body' by Eoin Glaister

David Knight - 27th Mar 2025

Viagra Boys' Sebastian Murphy has a new girlfriend, and she's 3000 years old, in Eoin Glaister's video for Bog Body - a tour de force of comedy horror. 

Glaister essentially tells the story of the song, and as he happily admits, the subject matter plays to his particularly strengths as a director.

In classic VB fashion, the track combines surly rock 'n roll power with a idiosyncratic lyric sung by Murphy - it involves a description of an ancient body being found perfectly preserved under ice in a bog, leading to his immediate adoration - and possessiveness. Eventually he insists that 'You're just jealous of her darkened skin and her dainty nose'.

This quirky concept all the motivation that Glaister needs to bring a unique love story to the screen, which starts when the reanimated zombie-like Bog Body walks into a London boozer, and begins her ancient dance ritual - before Seb enters the pub whilst she's doing full splits on the pub carpet.

And so their passionate affair begins, with the well-preserved ancient woman acquiring the taste for a rock 'n rolll lifestyle. What could possibly go wrong?

“I love bog bodies," says Glaister. "I’m obsessed. Thank GOD someone finally wrote a song about one. Dream gig really, got to spend the day in the pub with my mates watching a Bog Lady dance to one of my favourite bands. Mammoth effort from an extraordinarily talented bunch. Up the Bog!”

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Production/Creative

Director
Eoin Glaister
Producer
Jens Nielsen
Creative Director
André Jofré
Production Company
Executive Producer
1st AD
Danny Rumbelow
Bidding Producer
Lily Ashton
Production Manager
Yann Selakovitch
Production Assistant
Isabella Simpson
2nd AD
Beth Jespersen
Runners
Eli Parkinson, Ben Poulton

Camera

Director of Photography
Spike Morris
Focus Puller
Raul Menendez
2nd Ac
Rory Power
Camera Trainee
Jessica Timbs

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Hélio Ribeiro
Sparks
Sebastian Nowell, Nuno Beirao

Art

Production designer
Syd Harmony
Art Assistant
Theo Zeal

Wardrobe

Costume designer
Ellie Walker
Styling Assistant
Henry Hawksworth
Sfx Makeup
Georgia Brown, Jordan Glancy
Hmu Trainee
Elena Davis

Casting

The Bog Lady
The Bog Lady

Editorial

Editor
Jean-Philippe Blunt
Compositor/Online
Jack Sheldrake
Sound Design
Aaron Taffel
Graphics Design
Tally Francis

Grading

Colourist
Alex Gregory
Colour Producer
Hannah Jarrold
Colour grade company
Harbor Picture Company

VFX

Cgi
@Studio.Spirit.View
Vfx Artists
Nikita Zhavoronkov, Vitaliy Mitrofanov
Matchmove
Denis Baulin

Agent

Director's Representation

Commission

Label
Shrimptech Enterprises
Artist Services
Arketyp Group
A&R
Oskar Ekman
Senior Project Manager
Joe Austin
Manager
Ella Schafer

Misc

Prosthetics
Natasha Lawes

Other credits

Thanks To

Arri Rental, SHL London, Estelle Hristova, Gus Sharpe, RU

David Knight - 27th Mar 2025

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