Director and Filming: Cainy
Music: Lapis
Dancer: Ran Yan
Producer: Devanshir
This 16mm film uses the traditional techniques of moving image development, presenting contemporary dance in conjunction with Philip Larkin’s poem ‘Church Going.’
“Or, after dark, will dubious women come
To make their children touch a particular stone;
Pick simples for a cancer; or on some
Advised night see walking a dead one?
Power of some sort or other will go on
In games, in riddles, seemingly at random;
But superstition, like belief, must die,
And what remains when disbelief has gone?
Grass, weedy pavement, brambles, buttress, sky, ”