Danny's Girls 2006    TRT 4:00 Danny’s Girls was shot on a summer afternoon at the local bar in Breezy Point, Queens, New York also known as an Irish Mecca.  I was there with my mother and her Irish friends and became captivated by the women in the video. I spontaneously took out my camera and just started filming them. I’m not even sure they noticed as they were occupied with having fun and drinking beers. When they started to sing Danny Boy, I realized how sad a song it is all about death and dying.   I found it intriguing that this song of death and dying is a drinking song when people seem to band together to have fun while singing about death. I strung the words in a karaoke like fashion for the viewer to join in and sing along with Danny’s Girls. As the women get drunker, they lose their timing with the tempo and the words get harder to follow leading to chaos.  This piece is only complete when the viewer is singing along to the video. Stills 36 second extract © COPYRIGHT ALEX STAIGER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.