![]() ![]() None of this mazy naming has led to any kind of identity crisis for her – certainly not judging by the cool, funny, relaxed, warm and engaging student I meet over Zoom one grey, rainy day in Reykjavik in the first week of January. So, Doa is the daughter of the musician Björk (who also appears in The Northman, as the Seeress, a “Slav witch”) and the visual artist Matthew Barney. And Barney, her third, is her American father’s name. So “Bjarkardóttir” means the “dóttir” – daughter – of “Bjarkar”. That is, a child’s second name is based on the first name of their mother or father. The teenager cites the cult singer-songwriter and harpist as an inspiration, so much so that “I took harp lessons for three months once, because I was like, I need to be able to emulate this – this is magical”.Īs for “Bjarkardóttir”, it reflects the Icelandic tradition of using patronymic or matronymic names. In a high, fluting, sweetly melodic voice, over harp she plucked herself, Doa sings ’81, from 2010’s Have One On Me, the third album by Californian musician Joanna Newsom. ![]() That’s how she’s credited on Songs We’re Sung, a compilation album put together in New York and released last summer to raise money for non-profit Refugees International.Īccording to the album’s Bandcamp page, it was “inspired by the concept of having different artists from around the world do covers of songs that were either sung to them by their parents as children or songs that overall had a strong impact on the artist’s childhood”. Her full given name is Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney. Melkorka is her Icelandic slave name, and she likes to sing, so take that as you may!” Doa says, meaningfully, but with a laugh. She’s an Irish girl, 16, held captive on an Icelandic farm. In the American director’s intense-looking 10 th-century revenge saga – which is all mud, rain, snow, spear-throwing (and catching), bare-chested warriors, whey-faced wenches, witchy ululations and fierce rowing of longboats – first-time actor Doa plays Melkorka. Due out in April, it stars Alexander Skarsgård (last seen as Succession ’s “slab of gravlax” GoJo tech-bro Lukas Matsson) in the title role, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke. That’s how she’s credited on The Northman, the forthcoming Viking epic from Robert Eggers ( The Witch, The Lighthouse), who co-wrote the script with Icelandic poet Sjón. Then, when she’s acting, Doa goes by Doa Barney. On Instagram, the 19-year-old is d0lgur to her 11.7k followers. ![]() ![]() “All of those names, because it was all me, are all just different variations of my own name,” says Doa, smiling and fidgeting just a bit embarrassedly. They were, sequentially, the actor (leikur), director (leikstjórn), author (höfundur), director of photography (ljósmyndastjórn), editor (klippun), costume design (búningahönnun) and 1 st AD (er, 1 st AD). Having begun with the words “Haust 2020” (“autumn” in Icelandic), the Belfast-set video diary ended 510 seconds later with the cast and crew credits: ísadóra, dóa, faun, bjarkardóttir, barney, dragu and stuntgirl. When the novice filmmaker posted Almanak on YouTube, on 21 st November 2020, she wrote, in the credits, simply: “short film by doa”, no indefinite articles or capital letters required. Taken from the new print issue of THE FACE. ![]()
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