Musicians Daphne and Darcy Davenport have move from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. But their field recordings capture something unearthly, and their hold on reality starts to become increasingly tenuous.
Grimmfest Says: Bryn Chainey’s extraordinary feature film debut offers an eerie, unsettling 1970s-set mood-poem folk horror, that riffs off the life and work of composer and electronica pioneer Delia Derbyshire, and the subtly disquieting tales of Arthur Machen, with sly nods, too, to Nigel Kneale and to Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1978 cult classic THE SHOUT. Boasting a truly extraordinary attention to period detail, the film feels very much like something actually made during the era it is set. The pacing and editing rhythms, the lighting, the colour palette of the carefully graded film stock combine in thrilling fashion to evoke one of the greatest eras for challenging, British Cinema of the Weird. But this is way more than mere homage. Elusive and allusive, shot through with disquieting choices, both visually and narratively, and grounding its more mythical and fabulous elements in a subtle but unflinching study of relationship dysfunction and communication breakdown it marks the arrival of a remarkable new cinematic voice. And, as befits the subject matter, the music and sound design are… out of this world.
The feature will be preceded by the short film LOUD
When an aspiring music producer records a violent event, she becomes haunted by its sound…
Grimmfest Says: A neat, tight, witty, and genuinely troubling short from Adam Azimov, riffing smartly off themes from De Palma’s BLOW OUT and Bruce McDonald and Tony Burgess’s cult classic PONTYPOOL, this is both a chilling tale of possession and a dark morality tale about how the creative impulse can override basic empathy and morality