AVANT KINEMA & UNDERGROUND ARTS

GHOST WORLDS: ANIMAL RITES  (The 10 Minute Edit) -

 Document of an Expanded Cinema Performance by AVANT KINEMA 

at Alchemy Film And Moving Image Festival, Hawick, May 2018

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This is the 10 minute edit of GHOST WORLDS (ANIMAL RITES) - the video document of a 25 minute long Expanded Cinema Live Performance by Avant Kinema (Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian) at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, May 2018.

An experimental hybrid of both digital and analogue filmmaking, Ghost Worlds makes use of expired Kodachrome 40 filmstock, home-processed using the Caffenol recipe (coffee, washing soda, vitamin c) and handcrafted by directly scratching & painting the film. 

The Super 8 footage was filmed on location throughout Scotland (Scottish Borders, Dumfriesshire, Perthshire, Ayrshire & The Orkney Islands). 

The full 25 minute version of the film is currently in post-production and will be released at a later date. 

The soundtrack is a collaboration between Avant Kinema (who also make music as The Bird And The Monkey) and Undertoad (aka Neil Coles, a Folk Musician & Psytrance exponent from Newcastle, also one-time friend and collaborator with Ozric Tentacles). Undertoad here provides the improvised Handpan phrases which act as a rhythmic and melodic underlay for Sarahjane Swan's vocals and Roger Simian's instrumentation. 

Ghost Worlds (Animal Rites) is a Vegan Art Film, inspired by Avant Kinema's interest in animal rights, veganism and the work of such activists as Earthling Ed and Joey Carbstrong. 

**Warning: the film contains some scenes which viewers may find disturbing** 

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