Ash Under Tongue: Forbidden Footage of the Bone Reclamation Rite
From Artefact AI Film Festival, on Vimeo, by the link its maker gave the festival
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About this film
Inspired by the occult documentary atmosphere of Häxan and the decaying worlds of Gormenghast and Viriconium,, Ash Under Tongue: Forbidden Footage of the Bone Reclamation Rite presents recovered archival footage of ancient humanoid travelers performing a ceremony whose purpose has outlived its explanation. Amid the remnants of a once-advanced civilization, they gather to reclaim the bones of the dead, preserving gestures and procedures inherited from a world they can no longer comprehend. Scarred images and solemn intertitles bear witness to an act both sacred and profane.
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