A FILM BY BJÖRN RALLARE

A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE BY BJÖRN RALLARE

THE FILM
DOCUMENTARY · 70 MIN

THE FILM

GOODNIGHT PINEAPPLE is an intimate and distinctive portrait of a man who has built his entire life around listening while dealing with the difficulties of hearing loss.

On the surface, the film is about Michael McGlynn: his childhood, his stubbornness, the creation of Anúna, his family, Ireland, Iceland and his hearing loss.

Beneath that is a larger question: what happens to a person's identity when the ability they most strongly associate with themselves begins to change?

This is not a film about defeating disability. Michael continues through memory, colour, shape, technology, stubbornness and the people around him. The film allows pubs, swearing, pineapples, cold water and small absurdities to sit alongside something much more serious: the fear of losing a part of yourself.

GOODNIGHT PINEAPPLE is a warm, funny and at times painful film about hearing, creativity and stubbornness — and about continuing to be yourself when the body changes the conditions.

A quiet Dublin street beneath a railway bridge, from the film.
DUBLIN, IRELANDGOODNIGHT PINEAPPLE
Michael McGlynn standing in a mountain landscape.
COMPOSER · ANÚNA COLLECTIVE

MICHAEL
McGLYNN

Michael McGlynn is an Irish composer and the founder of the ANÚNA Collective. His work has been shaped for decades by voice, sound and listening.

GOODNIGHT PINEAPPLE follows Michael as hearing loss changes the physical conditions of the craft around which he has built his life — while his need to create remains.

Two women walking together through a sunlit park, from the film.
A street corner and local shopfront in Iceland, from the film.
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DIRECTOR

GOODNIGHT PINEAPPLE was written, directed, filmed and edited by Swedish filmmaker Björn Rallare.

Rallare works with a documentary approach centred on presence, people and story. His films aim to stay close to their subjects and to find what needs to be felt as much as what needs to be explained.

Björn Rallare is a Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer based in Linköping. With a background in graphic design, music and cultural production, he now works primarily with documentary and narrative film, both independently and commercially. His films have screened at around thirty international festivals and received several awards and cultural recognitions. Alongside commissioned work, he develops independent films through Havanna Produktion. His work is driven by an interest in human behaviour, identity, belonging and the tension between personal history and the present moment.

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Björn Rallare with his camera equipment on location beside the water.
Björn Rallare, behind the scenes.
Photo by Nejc Rudel.

CREDITS

A FILM BY

Björn Rallare

WRITTEN, DIRECTED, FILMED AND EDITED BY

Björn Rallare

SOUND

Peder Carlsson

PRODUCED BY

Havanna Produktion

in association with

It Takes Three to Tango

FULL CREDITS

A FILM BY

Björn Rallare

WRITTEN, DIRECTED, FILMED AND EDITED BY

Björn Rallare

FEATURING

Lucy Champion

Linda Connolly

Bjarni Guðmundsson

George Hutton

Brian Masterson

Aisling McGlynn

Clare McGlynn

John McGlynn

Lauren McGlynn

Michael McGlynn

Barry McGowan

Nejc Rudel

SOUND

Peder Carlsson

PRODUCTION SUPPORT

Anúna Teo

POST-PRODUCTION SUPPORT

It Takes Three to Tango

PRODUCED BY

Havanna Produktion

in association with

It Takes Three to Tango

MUSIC

Licenced from Artlist:

Max Jackson - Give It To Me

Out of Flux - I Don´t Like Robots

Yehezkel Raz - Ballad to a Mexican Desert

The Raft - Living Without Me

UMLALA - Floor Dolls

Yuval Maayan - Perfect

Max Hixon - Let Me Dream

Messwave - Blink n Miss

ANÚNA - Ēarendel

M'ANAM - Gunnarshólmi

SYSTIR - Once I had a Sweetheart

Ash McGlynn - My Moon, My Man (Feist)

THANKS TO

Michael McGlynn and family

MARGRÉT PÁLSDÓTTIR

Windmill Lane Recording Studios

Mullets Barber Shop

The Kicking Donkey

Mosó Grill

LICENSED FOOTAGE & MUSIC

Artlist

Motion Array

SCREENINGS

COMING SOON

PRESS / MATERIALS

COMING SOON

CONTACT US FOR PRESSKIT — bjorn@rallare.se

CONTACT

FILM / FESTIVAL / PRESS / SCREENING ENQUIRIES

Björn Rallare

bjorn@rallare.se
+46 (0)708 - 777 256