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Marling's Music in Theatre, Television, and Film
BALLARD
Marling's song "Only the Strong" was featured in the tenth episode of Michael Alaimo's Amazon Prime series. The show is based on the series of novels by Michael Connolly, and Maggie Q stars as LAPD Detective Renée Ballard.
PEAKY BLINDERS
In Season four of the crime family epic PEAKY BLINDERS, Marling is "featured heavily". Rhian Daly of NME wrote: "You might not expect a show whose watchword is 'outlaw' to go heavy on the folk, but, after featuring in season two, Laura Marling has three songs featured in the fourth season – a cover of Nick Cave’s ‘Red Right Hand’, another mystery cover and one of her own originals. "Being an outlaw is not about being loud," explains Genn. "Being an outlaw is about being powerful. When Laura Marling opens her mouth and sings… it’s like when people say, ‘This person is the real deal.'”
ON BODY AND SOUL
Hungarian writer-director Ildikó Enyedi's film, ON BODY AND SOUL (Testrol és lélekrol), is a tale of two loners, Endre (Géza Morcsányi) and Mária (Alexandra Borbély) who live on the outskirts of Budapest and fall in love. Laura Marling's song "What He Wrote" is the one tune Mária plays over and over. Youtube has a trailer.
ROMA
"Roma: Music Inspired By The Film, is a collection of songs inspired by the Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated film, curated by the film's director Alfonso Cuarón. Track 14 is Marling's cover of Mary Hopkin's song Those Were The Days.
BONNY PORTMORE
Episode 5 of TURN features an interpretation of Bonnie Portmore, a 300 year old Scottish protest song by Marling and Jonathan Wilson. In a review of the episode, Brian Ives of radio.com quotes Marling on her involvement with the song.
“I was asked to perform it at a gathering in London in honor of The People Speak, [the 2009 film] influenced by Howard Zinn’s writings about the history and power of speech and protest. And the night [singer/songwriter] John Martyn died [January 29, 2009], I was on tour in rural Scotland and the entire village came together in the pub and passed around a guitar taking turns to play his songs and sing together, full of joy. That was one of the most important musical experiences I ever had. Not least because in rural Scotland in one pub there were at least 20 people better at singing and playing guitar then me.”
WHEN BRAVE BIRD SAVED
The short film When Brave Bird Saved, by Frederick Scott & Nicholas Jack Davies is described as "an introduction to a visual journey directly inspired, informed, and narrated by the first four tracks of 'Once I Was An Eagle.'" Castmembers are: Jessica Lee Keller, Sean Patrick Parnell, Amanda Balen, Christopher Black, Jasmine Albuquerque, Cathy Cooper, Haylee roderick, Bill Prudich, Andy Acosta, Rhoda Pell, Forrest Temple, Theresa Balderson, Galen Howard, and Alfred Gilliam.
CONTEXT OBJECT AUTHORITY
Laura Marling composed the music for this intimate dance video featuring Jasmine Albuquerque, was filmed in the area surrounding her Malibu Canyon home before devastating 2018 fires. "The location played a big role in this film," explained long-term Nowness contributor Justin Tyler Close. "It truly was a relationship between Jasmine and nature. We shot this at Jasmine's house in Malibu Canyon, which now is abandoned and charred from the Woolsey Fires. They lost everything. So in many ways this film is a love letter to that land."
METHOD IS MADNESS
Marling's 'Rest in the Bed' is the music behind the short film produced to promote 'Method in Madness', a a theatrical productiion which was part of Edingurgh Fringe in 2015. Written by Alex Doble and Katie Dunstan, and devised by Entita Theatre, the play combined "Shakespearean text and new writing with physical theatre and elements of dance".
SONG FOR OUR DAUGHTER
Justin Tyler directed a short film for Marling's seventh album, SONG FOR OUR DAUGHTER. The video uses short snippets of various tracks and vignettes, broken up with sections of poetry. Owen Meyers on Pitchfork wrote: "Marling does away with her previous record’s occasional blues-rock grit and peels her sound back to its gleaming bones: pristine acoustic guitar, textural hums, a metronome click. She doesn’t need much else to frame her quartz pendant of a voice, which can reach Alpine altitudes...Marling has described Song for Our Daughter as a rumination on modern femininity, and her tendency to leave lyrical narratives open and unfinished adds an evocative elasticity to her new music."
A QUESTION THAT SOMETIMES DRIVE ME CRAZY...
Hazel Clarke, Artistic Director/Choreographer of Kairos Dance Company, was inspired by the song My Manic and I to create "A Question That Sometimes Drives Me Hazy: Am I or the Others Crazy?", a full-length work of choreography focusing on mental illness in the early 1960s, it's stigmas, and it's effect on society. "“I was listening to her song, ‘My Manic,’ and it just hit me,” Clarke told Easy Reader News. “I just saw a mental institution and a set with a man struggling with schizophrenia and a woman in the institution in love with him.” Dancer Jessica Harper added: "It's a dark piece, but there are comical aspects of it and light parts. There is a lot of light and beauty in it. We're all human, we all have issues. It doesn't matter if you're diagnosed with anything or not, everybody can relate."
I SPEAK BECAUSE I CAN - the musical
In the summer of 2013, "I Speak Because I Can", an original musical featuring the songs of Laura Marling was performed by student-run theatre group Dorothy L. Productions, based in Flower Mound, Texas (near Dallas). The musical was set in the Boston area in the year 1960, with a story that explored themes of civil rights and feminism. All profits were donated to Traffick911, an organization dedicated to fighting sexual slavery of children in the U.S. Video of this project is no longer online.