Demon sealers
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single channel video
47:32 min
2020
Demon Sealers is an animated film that features reproductions of historical drawings. The film re-examines a collection of demon illustrations that were drawn over 1500 years ago in Mesopotamia, usually by women. These illustrations appear at the bottom of ceramic bowls known as incantation bowls. In the film, the demon drawings are placed in a modern, digitally rendered 3D world. The video depicts its main characters in a nihilistic and existentialist setting. The story follows the journey of a demon named L and her detective companion as they attempt to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of members from their community, which seems to be caused by human activities. The video reverses the traditional anthropocentric narrative of demon sealing, instead casting the demons as the protagonists of the story.
︎︎︎
single channel video
47:32 min
2020
Demon Sealers is an animated film that features reproductions of historical drawings. The film re-examines a collection of demon illustrations that were drawn over 1500 years ago in Mesopotamia, usually by women. These illustrations appear at the bottom of ceramic bowls known as incantation bowls. In the film, the demon drawings are placed in a modern, digitally rendered 3D world. The video depicts its main characters in a nihilistic and existentialist setting. The story follows the journey of a demon named L and her detective companion as they attempt to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of members from their community, which seems to be caused by human activities. The video reverses the traditional anthropocentric narrative of demon sealing, instead casting the demons as the protagonists of the story.
