SUFFOCATED BUT SCREAMING (2025)
(Digital/3:32min/Colour+B&W/UK)
Suffocated but Screaming is a response to “Making Materiality Matter: Johannes Binotto’s Art of the Process” videographic exercise developed by the Ways of Doing initiative. It explores the figure of the woman-cat-monster in Japanese kaibyo eiga (ghost cat horror films).
The first screening of this work was at the Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo, in July 2024.
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The final version was published with a creator statement in Open Screens journal, February 2025.
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CREDITS
Made by Alison Peirse
Original soundtrack by _HEAVYLEG
With thanks to Dayna McLeod, for cinematography
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ASSETS
All aspects of the video essay data collection and manipulation are in accordance with the UK ‘fair dealing’ policy, specifically section 30 ‘Criticism, review and news reporting of Chapter 3 ‘Acts Permitted in Relation to Copyright Works’ in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.