The Haunted Sea Film Screening

GHost presents

The Haunted Sea

                                                  Amy McDonough, Ash on my Skirt (still)

Short Film Screening

and

Musical Performance by English Heretic

Friday 23 September 2011

7pm doors open

7.30pm musical interlude by English Heretic

8pm film screening commences

64 Tontine Street, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 1JP

Map: http://tinyurl.com/6zd2ssc

We have selected twelve international artists who have responded to our call for short films on the theme of “The Haunted Sea”. Their films will be screened on the final weekend of the Folkestone Triennial:

Films by
Tymon Albrzykowski, Neil Baker, Nick Baxter & Jude Cowan & Joanna McCormick, Emma Caddow, Kieron Clark, Inez de Coo, Glenn Church, Romeo Grünfelder, Ellen Lake & Chris Green, Amy McDonough, Eva Rudlinger, Stasis73

English Heretic will open and close the event with “An intermission of aural lagan, manipulating phonographic salvage from the actual locations of M.R.James' ghost stories “A Warning to the Curious” and “Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You.”

Saturday 24th September, 2.00p - 6.00pm
the films will be screened on a loop at 64 Tontine Street
and the B&B Project Space will be open with
a final chance to glimpse the GHost CLHub

4.00pm – Performance by Joanna McCormick and Jude McGowanthe B&B Project Space, 14 Tontine Street

Film Programme

Arctic Echo, Dir. Eva Rudlinger, UK, 2008 The gradual appearance and disappearance of a white cliff facing its double at the mouth of an Icelandic fjord, subtly alters scenery and atmosphere. The temporary transfiguration of sea and sky recalls phenomena such as the arctic mirage witnessed in remote and high latitude settings.
Since completing an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, Eva Rudlinger's practice uses light, space, scale and elemental materials as a catalyst to explore perceptions of time and the temporal, thoughts and feelings, mainly expressed in the medium of photography, film and sculpture. She has participated in selected screenings and exhibitions in national and international festivals and galleries.
http://www.evarudlinger.co.uk

[desı’re:] the Goldstein Reels, Dir. Romeo Grünfelder, Germany, 2006

An old celluloid film is labelled as being from the estate of Jack Goldstein. The unusual S8 footage is nevertheless difficult to interpret. Due to partially missing data, place, time and author cannot be determined and keep the beholder in the dark. The ongoing investigation has not been able to produce a reasonable explanation of the circumstances.
www.felderfilm.de

The Radiographer’s Daughter, Dir. Stasis73, UK, 2011She had played the harp so beautifully she was called before the king. The wind became jealous and mustered a great storm that came and washed them all away. A storm that created new land, such was its fury, in exchange for old. And now sunken towns and villages hold memories of the marks that hands had made in their walls….and on a clear day, if you listen ever so carefully, you can hear the music she played the king in amongst the lapping of the now gentle tide.
Stasis73 is a freeform post-experimental sound and film outfit. Drawn together by the chemistry of the random.The perfect number is 73, because 73 is the 21st prime number. The mirror of 73 is 37, the 12 prime number. 12's mirror is 21. The products of 21 are 7 and 3. 7 and 3 together equal 73.
www.stasis73.com 

Ash On My Skirt, Dir. Amy McDonough, UK, 2011 Ash On My Skirt tells the story of a mother scattering her son’s ashes at sea through the repeated and clashing musical refrains of a macabre Scottish folk ballad and the washing of the tides. It weaves together an address of an audience that is informational with something more lyrical.
Amy McDonough (Born Ashington Northumberland 1981.) BA English, Royal Holloway 2002. BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths 2006. PG Dip Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools 2011. Amy has exhibited films and performances both nationally and internationally: Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Clore Cinema Tate Britain and exhibitions in UK, Italy, Germany and Japan. She has recently been awarded the Deutsche Bank Award.

Dziwy Mórz Głębokich (The Deep Sea Wonders), Dir. Tymon Albrzykowski, Poland, 2010The film tells the twisted tale of a fantastic submarine expedition to the depths of the ocean to rescue a woman swallowed by a fish.
Tymon Albrzykowski was born in 1988. He studied film and artistic photography at the School of Arts in Gdynia (Poland) and graduated in 2008. Since October 2009 he studies at Lodz Film School (Poland) specializing in Animation Directing and Special Effects.

Oh Dreamland, Dir. Inez de Coo, UK, 2010
Made by combining photographs shot in Coney Island, New York and Dreamland, Margate with footage taken from the 1962 film Carnival of Souls, this video addresses the haunted feeling of abandoned fairs while suggesting that film and photography contain ghosts of their own in the way the mediums are created out of life and held in time. It is a video work with its own sense of time and logic that seduces the viewer as if it were a dream. 
Inez de Coo (Lutong, 1982) is a visual artist, specialising in video art. She completed her BA at the KABK in The Hague in 2008 and graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in summer 2011. She is interested in applying ideas from film theory alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to explore the intersections between fiction and reality, exploring cinema’s role in shared social and cultural heritage as a record of collective memory.  www.inezdecoo.nl

The Salem Ghost Ship, Dir. Glenn Church, USA, 2011
The Salem Ghost Ship is based on the rich New England narrative folklore tradition. Ships from Salem sailed all over the world many never returning. This constant threat of untimely death would culminate in stories of ghost ships returning the souls of dead sailors back to the land they sailed from. 
Glenn Church’s work combines sound and its visual counterpart. He is interested in how these two disciplines combine to create ‘total’ and immersive psychological experiences. He works with multimedia to create expressions of social and psychological reactions to the 'personal' engagement with the world; both the 'seen' and the 'unseen'.  www.neophytecapsule.com

Mermaid Song, Dir. Nick Baxter, Jude Cowan, Joanna McCormick, UK, 2011
Mermaids squeeze the life out of sailors while attempting to rescue them.  “Now you're blinded by starlight, and so I do not know your salty skin, your sailor's gleam, the dazzle of your fine heart's beam.”
Mermaids' tears are freshwater pearls.
“I cannot swim, the water's fluttering drift eludes me in the night.”
When you see a mermaid beware rough weather ahead.
“Were you to join me here, and sit with me on shore, I would delight to take your hand and lead you to the ocean's roar.”
Eat a mermaid's flesh and become immortal.
“And glide immersed and drifting, embracing storm and calm.”
A mermaid's kisses will cure your ills.
“And infinite consolation of the seas' deep lustrous balm.”
Mermaid Song is a collaboration with film maker Nick Baxter, invented from snippets of footage gathered while searching for monstrous wonders of the deep at Highcliffe on the Dorset coast bordering Hampshire.The film is a playful exploration of haunting themes, including the elusive quality of dreams, mystery, longing and loss.
Jude Cowan and Joanna McCormick are artists who delight in the absurd, the surreal and the spontaneous. Jude is also a musician and published poet and Joanna is artist in residence at Peckham Settlement and is part of Westminster Arts' Resonate team. 
www.joart.info www.myspace.com/judecowan www.judecowan.blogspot.com
nicholas.baxter@btinternet.com

Edges of the Peripheries, Dir. Emma Caddow, UK, 2007 A phenomenological study.
Ephemeral gateways.
Transient precipitations.
A myriad of hopes.
This footage was shot at Harwich Seafront where the Doverport Lighthouse sit, which have been painted by John Constable.
Born in metropolis of Hong Kong, Emma travelled across a continent only to land in another metropolis, London. Having previously followed a more scientific career, a pivotal experience derailed her mathematical existence onto the free highway of art. Having recently completed a Fine Art BA at Middlesex University she specialises in film & video.
www.emmacaddow.com

West of Arran, Dir. Neil Baker, UK, 2011
A fisherman is slowly strangled by a jumper his mother knitted in this sparse tale of love, loss and revenge from beyond the grave. 
Neil Baker is a widely published writer of bitter-sweet short stories and surreal, unsettling tales. He lives near the sea, outside of Rye.
http://neilbaker.blogspot.com/

Joy, Dir. Kieron Clark, UK, 2007Joy tells the story of a modern-day miracle and of its effects on the residents of a small seaside town. 
Kieron Clark is a South London-based writer, producer and director with several short films under his belt, including the UK Film Council-funded Joy, which has screened at festivals including Raindance, Brest and Leeds, and the short dramas Still Life and Gas.  www.kieronclark.co.uk

Seaworthy, Dir. Ellen Lake and Chris Green, USA, 2010
Based on observations of everyday life – this short is an eclectic mix of cargo ships, tug boats, and sailboats shot on the Oakland Estuary, with a bluegrass soundtrack by Evie Ladin, and a body floating by – mixing fantasy and documentary, love and loss, while exploring the urban/marine landscape. 
Chris Green (scientist) and Ellen Lake (artist) join forces to make mechanical sculptures, videos, photographs, and installations. Working with metal, motors, electronics, and digital media they make art inspired from observations in everyday life. We are currently working on a series exploring contemporary urban space. Chris and Ellen live in Oakland, California. Ellen works at Kala Art Institute, a residency program for printmakers and digital media artists and Chris is an environmental scientist at the United States Geological Survey. Seaworthy has shown at the Director’s Lounge 2011 Urban Research Program “Places and Locations: Reality Check,” in Berlin, has traveled in Europe with Ciné Martiko, played at the Santa Fe International New Media Festival, “Currents 2011,” the Great Wall of Oakland, the Berkeley Art Center, and the Kala Art Gallery in Berkeley. 

GHost III

Friday 17th December, 6pm – 10.00pm

St. John on Bethnal Green

200 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9PA (next to Bethnal Green tube)

GHost is here once more, with another unforgettable night of artist films, performances and moving image interventions to celebrate the darkest days of the season and to welcome in the ghosts that inhabit them.

In the lofty shadows of this atmospheric John Soane church, hosts and guests become GHost-hunters bedazzled by artist films on a movie-sized screen in the nave, and haunted by moving images, transmissions, interventions and performances in the foyer, belfry and beyond...

Warming seasonal drinks will be served

NOTE: The exhibition can be viewed throughout the night 6pm - 10pm and the film screenings in the nave start at 8.30 pm.

GHosts
Nichola Bruce, Gail Burton & Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly with The East London Secular Choir, Antonia Carrara, Jo David & Alex Baker & Kit Poulson, Rebecca Feiner, Romeo Grünfelder, Michelle Hannah, Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou, Theo Kaccoufa, Miyuki Kasahara, Output Arts, Matt Rowe, Manuel Saiz, Sabine Schöbel, David Secombe & Andrew Martin, Sarah Sparkes, Kate Squires, Ricarda Vidal, The Reverend Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, The Phantom Organist, The Daughters of Gef, Neil Wissink

map here:      http://tinyurl.com/33rdupu

GHost is led by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal
http://www.ghosthostings.co.uk/
more information: ghost.hostings@gmail.co.uk
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Installations and performances around the church

Output Arts, ‘Static’, 2010, Audio installation

Using collected responses to simple questions, and the voices of the church community, Output Arts have created an audio installation specifically for GHost.
With an old transistor radio, the audience is invited to tune through the static and capture the voices being transmitted throughout the space. In the context of the church, personal memories take on a haunting, ethereal quality.
Output Arts create multi-sensory artwork for non-gallery venues. We design installations combining images, text, video and audio gathered primarily from and within the venues that are used to show the work.
We would like to thank all those who have participated in the project and particularly our readers.
www.outputarts.com

Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou, ‘Evidence and values for a new age’

‘Evidence and values for a new age’ uses Super 8 film and cctv recording to document a wineglass moving across a table.
By deliberately recording the evidence in a manner that hints at old ruses, the short recording might be an attempt at evidence being faked through stop-motion, strings, panning or digital manipulation, hidden by the quality of the image. In actual fact, it is a wineglass moving across a table. Or as Lou Reed put it ‘Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see’.
http://www.electronicsunset.org/

Sarah Sparkes, 'The Infinity Box', 2010, infinity box, illuminated sign and shed, 4ft x 6ft

On entering the Belfry space the viewer is confronted with the challenge 'NEVER AFRAID’ in flashing lights, faintly illuminating the shape of a shed on which the sign is hanging. Pass through the darkness and look for a peephole in the shed door through which a portal opens out into a limitless dimension. For some years, Sarah Sparkes has been exploring the potential of these boxes, previously installing them into coffins, built to fit the artist and in this instance a garden shed. A structure which is both domestic and everyday serves as a gateway to explore our fascination for ‘other worlds’.

Sarah Sparkes is currently undertaking an IGRS research fellowship at the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, University of London. Recent exhibitions include, ‘The Infinity Box’ a solo show at The Belfry of St Johns- London, 'Fate and Free Will' at Riverside Contemporary Art Space - California, USA and 'Sold Out' at Elastic Residence- London.

Manuel Saiz, 'A New Chance for Symbolic Dimension', Spain,

A video installation based on a scene of Ingmar Bergman's "The Magician" (Ansiktet, 1958) in which art and society, magic and art are confronted. The work uses a clever application of mechanical sorcery that creates a magic phenomenon that echoes the fakery and trickery of the film.

Manuel Saiz is an international artist and curator. Selected solo shows include Specialized Technicians Required, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid (2005), Private Party. Keep Out Castlefield Gallery Manchester, Nominal_Politics, T1+2 Artspace, London (2003) and selected group shows include Talk Show ICA London, 'Monitoring', Kassel Germany (2005), UK, East End Academy, Whitechapel gallery, London

Rebecca Feiner, 'Everyday Abandoned' & ‘LOST’

The film 'Everyday Abandoned', which is shown in the belfry’s ‘natural’ confessional booth is a series of intense visual fragments of every day abandoned hauntings & memories exploring textures and absence capturing the mystery from a child’s point of view of both horror and wonderment at their surroundings. The film has audio of train tracks and city traffic & was originated on VHS so that visually the colours bleed into soft edges. Exploring the continued theme of absence & haunting a small object-based work accompanies the film at the small curved landing entrance to the Belfry: two tiny white leather little girls shoes of the style associated with confirmations & weddings which will be spot lit- this piece is called LOST.  

Theo Kaccoufa 'Dearest' Kinetic Chair

I like the idea of the mundane behaving unexpectedly.
Dearest is a haunted chair, an utilitarian object possessed by forces unseen. I have created my version of possible Victorian technologies, as used by spiritualist charlatans, to beguile, seduce and bamboozle.
In contrast to “Dearest”, a skeletal flower grows from a crack on the stairs. This piece continues from my Cyber Flora series, plant forms of exotic origins, like ghosts, barely existing on this earthly plane.
Theo Kaccoufa, together with Tom Grimsey, is currently working with scientists from Universities around the UK on the subject of Nano Technology. Calling themselves “Giants of the Infinitesimal”, they will be showing their work in 2011 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
http://www.theoland.com/

Miyuki Kasahara “Becoming a Ghost Healer not Hunter” 2010, Performance

I will be helping people hunt unhappy invisible ghosts. I will be asking visitors to release the ghosts’ pains or to solve their problems. Visitors will be encouraged to pick one of the ghosts at random from facedown individual cards. I will explain the particular nature of the ghost. There will be a series of objects on a table; all appropriate in someway to helping the ghosts. Participants need to choose the right item for their ghost. When they choose the item to take away with them; they need to explain and write out an instruction on how they will achieve the Ghost healing. I will ask for photos of their care as evidence that they have carried out their instruction. The results will be shown on the blog: www.ghosthealer.blogspot.com
Group shows 2010: Dalston Voices, Hackney Museum, After Dark, Gift 10, Vyner Street, Seed Dispersal Farm, London Fields

Matt Rowe, Screaming Skull, 2010

Super-8 projection and ceramic installation

The screaming skull pays homage to historical accounts of displaced skulls that posses supernatural powers. A screaming skull is alleged to relentlessly harass the culprit who is responsible for removing it from a designated resting place.
The projection of an animated veil onto the surface of a blank porcelain skull activates the screaming skull’s wail in infinity.  For Ghost III Matt Rowe begins to investigate the morbid curiosity present in the human condition that compels us to seek talismans, relics, and spaces that offer contact to other worlds.
Rowe is an artist based in Kent and the London area. His work investigates regional myth, traditions and identity in a quest to distill an essence of folk culture.
Selected shows include: Fan Fair at Transition Gallery in London 2008, Vernacular Spectacular in the Folkestone Funicular Lift (Folkestone Triennial Fringe Events 2008) and Extra at Espace Le Carré, Lille 2010.

Nichola Bruce

'Alive , dying , dead', 2010 - 3 part moving image installation - continuous loop

I search, hunt through my archive of the past and there are always slices of film that I replay, because of a lost time, because the ghosts are so strong, and in those pieces of film, there is always an object, a place, that the memory hangs on and it is often something I still live with, only they are gone and I project their presence back onto, those places where for me they once were.
I am slowly filling my secret places of the dead and gone.
Nichola Bruce continues to film the Randometer Archive, extracts from her life.
She has been working with perception and memory through moving image exploring different forms, from experimental to feature drama to interactive mobile. She has screened her work worldwide, via broadcast, exhibition, festivals and cinema.
She also enjoys making musical noise.
http://www.nicholabruce.com/

Jo David & Kit Poulson & Alex Baker  - a live sound and video sculpture, with projections on the screen in the church

The aim is to try to draw the sublime, the ineffable, the indescribable. The work comes from Jo David’s ongoing study into video feedback. Literally what happens when a camera is fed it’s own signal. What is the nature of the artefacts created? Where do they come from? What is their ontological status?

Positioning themselves as “Edwardian” Explorers, investigating the great uncharted space that might lie between the concrete world and the conceptual world.The work draws in ideas such as fractal mathematics, exploring the elemental forces that connect every human to one another and humans to the universe.

Relevant biographical info:

Jo David made the Anomolous (Fox) video piece for Ghost in 2008 which was shown in the stairwell at St John and also designed the programme that year with a drawing of St John on Bethnal Green by Rachael House. For Ghost II, in 2009, he made From Beyond, a video and sound installation, with sound by Kit Poulson. [1] The piece for Ghost III will attempt a live rendering of similar processes. Kit Poulson and Alex Baker also took part in Jo David’s curation for Supernormal at Braziers Park 2010 for Space Station Sixty-Five.

http://www.alexbaker.co.uk/

http://www.fineartresearch.org/CV/KitPoulson

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/25/exhibitors/kit_poulson.aspx

Ricarda Vidal, "Temporis manus edax scalae", 2010,6 min. loop,

This little film brings back the old wooden ladder of St. John which served generations of bellringers before the hand of time sealed its fate. It is an exploration of light and shadow, stillness and peace and ultimately the death of an inanimate object which contained the warmth of more than two centuries of human touch.

Ricarda Vidal is Lecturer in Visual Culture at the IGRS, School of Advanced Study (University of London). Most of the time she researches, writes or talks about culture since 1900 - above all about cars, death, urban culture, Modernism and Romanticism - but every now and then she sits down and makes things.

Gail Burton and Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly AISLE - A ten-minute performance

 

Films on the big screen

Michelle Hannah, "I AM THE SUN AT NIGHT"  UK, 2010, 4.23min

The still point. The source of all light.
The video harnesses the precarious and fleeting aspects of our world, evoking the spiritual and visceral attachment to nature, faith and the existence of life after death, ideas very much founded in the Romantic traditions. Yet the transcendental and meditative experience at the core of this tradition is disrupted here by the disturbing presence of a singular unsexed voice.
A subconscious entity? The Future? Post Utopia? It toys with the viewer to come into its Sublime. Against the terrifying beauty, we sense our insignificant place within its infinity, a deep primal instinct to go ‘towards the light.’
It is the still point. Where no meaning exists.
Michelle Hannah is a Glasgow based artist , a recent graduate from the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art. She currently revolves around the darker recesses of the human psyche and is at the fledgling beginnings of an esoteric cult: The Kingdom of Muin. She has recently shown at Embassy Gallery Edinburgh, The Elevator Gallery London, The Creative Labs CCA and Tramway Glasgow.

Romeo Gruenfelder 'Naissance d'un objet' Germany 5.10 min

A group of young people are discovering something right in the "center ", which remains inexplicably unseen.

Simon Hollington  &Kypros Kyprianou, ‘Last Chance for a Slow Dance’

‘Last Chance for a Slow Dance’ documents seemingly polter activity in a derelict house. Continuing in the tradition of theatrical illusionists, fraudulent mediums and cinematic sideshows, the apparent lack of the performer is mirrored in the poltergeists’ literal lack of body.

 

Antonia Carrara, The definition of a thing in itself France 2010, 16mm on hd, 8,24 min

The cinema Louxor Temple was built in Paris in 1921 with an Egyptian-inspired architecture; briefly transformed into a night club, Louxor Megatown was abandoned in the 1990s. The film shows a guided tour to the site, retracing Louxor Temple’s plan loosely following Egyptologist Gaston Maspero’ s memories. Legendary French film director Luc Moullet explores the site, strolling through what is left of Megatown nightclub inside Louxor. The project proposes a speculative archaeological method based on a web of spatiotemporal correspondences and semantic and visual coincidences. The validity of the investigation method is constantly put to test. Especially because the whole setting is nothing but a photographic reconstruction of the site.

A.C. is an artist, living and working in Paris.

Kate Squires, "Unheimlich Gäst”Berlin, Germany 2009, Lumix stills camera. 4.29 min

Rare footage of ghosts sitting down to enjoy a normal spaghetti dinner. This film uses the common ‘ghost white sheet’ with eye holes and shows it’s unsuitability beyond the spirit world. With haunting music by Tomita.
I primarily make sculpture and collage/drawings as well as short films. My work often calls on the viewer to suspend their imagination somewhere between reality and non-reality.
Kate Squires is currently based in Berlin where she runs an art space www.centrumberlin.com with David Moynihan.

Neil Wissink, "Pugwash"  Canada/UK, 2007, 16mm Film, 5:44 min

My practice explores geographical interstices and their subjective histories, the works themselves effecting poetic collisions between their materiality and their subject, between documentation and fabrication. Pugwash depicts a farm in Nova Scotia which was originally settled by my ancestors, but which I had never before visited as it was abandoned shortly after I was born. In London I showed the rushes to a professional psychic medium, whose ‘reading’ of the film became its soundtrack, offering a highly subjective and contentious proposition for what representations of place can mean.
Neil Wissink is a Canadian-born artist currently based in London. Since completing his studies at the Royal College of Art (2007) and Central St Martins (2003) he has exhibited his work in galleries and festivals internationally. Neil recently won the inaugural AMIP award for artist’s moving image, a co-commissioning scheme from the National Film and Television School and The Royal College of Art.

Sabine Schöbel, GRUNSKE Germany, 2009, Super8 and 16mm on DigiBETA, colour, sound, 4min 45sec, with the assistance of Deborah Phillips, Eva Heldmann, Justyna Hayda

The demise of the 'Palace of the Republic' in Berlin, at sunset. This is a portrait of a powerful symbol of nostalgia for the GDR that was re-used, restored and then, eventually, demolished, becoming a changing, magical emblem of the new centre of the city. The last glimpses of its 'skeleton' evoke thought-provoking experiences: the last bits of stairwells are reminiscent of other images of ruins, such as Berlin in the 1940s, when it was a bombed-out city, or of the World Trade Center in New York. It also conjures notions of the Romantic era in the 17th and 18th centuries, when ruins where expressly built. GRUNSKE is, in an odd way, the name of the sculptor responsible for this accidental monument: it's the name of a company that recycles metal. Over the course of months, their machinery carried out the contract of dismantling the Palace, for the public good in a public space. (Sabine Schöbel, 2009)
 

David Secombe & Andrew Martin, ‘Ghost Club’, Scout Hut Films 2007, UK, HDV, 10.53

Ghost Club follows the members of the South London Paranormal Investigation Society during a night-time vigil at a reputedly haunted local mansion, Charlton House. The team is led by club-founder John, whose pomposity is mocked by his companions Peter and Ian. No apparitions from the other side materialise during their vigil: but when John is alone, he discovers that spectres do not always conform to the criteria set by writers of Edwardian ghost stories.

David Secombe: “Ghost Club was an attempt to have some fun with the English ghost story tradition. We wanted to send up the genre whilst creating something that might be scary on its own terms.”
Andrew Martin is a journalist, novelist and broadcaster. His ninth novel, The Somme Stations, will be published by Faber and Faber in March 2011.
David Secombe is a writer, photographer and occasional film-maker. He runs the website esotericlondon.com, a literary and visual examination of the capital’s past and present.

The Phantom Organist

AKA 'Ring Mod Orkestra'