Earlier this week I was privileged to watch a sneaky advance screening of Armageddon Gospels. Armageddon Gospels from Foolish People is a new film written and directed by John Harrigan, in which a group of refugee gods, transposed to flesh and blood, attempt to enact a ritual to save England…
Over on Twitter yesterday I posted a series of tweets that, merged together, went something like this: What I need is Brighton people who will dress up in masks like those in the photo [above] and these, and be filmed doing some sort of dark folk-horror dance/performance art/ritual. Performers…
As I’ve been developing a body of artwork about myth and masked mythic characters over the past few years my thought process has frequently been drawn to the concept of ritual. Not everyday rituals like shaking someone’s hand as a greeting, but those rituals probably better described as…