Seven minutes that'll scramble your brain like eggs on acid.
A hallucinatory retelling of the Greek myth about Pan and Syrinx's brutalist romantic love. Inspired by the short films of Maya Deren, Curtis Harrington and the art of Rosaleen Norton and Brett Whiteley, 'Love and the Demonic Psyche' channels French poet Arthur Rimbaud's proclivity for a derangement of the senses, culminating in a Cocteau style blood painting invocating the horned God of Panic. Encompassed in psychedelic visuals and Moroccan trance music, this film should be viewed in the spirit in which it was made.
Cinematography
Psychedelic visuals that look like Whiteley paintings threw up beautifully.
Sound
Moroccan trance music that possesses your nervous system.
Direction
Clark channels Deren, Cocteau, and his own unhinged vision.
Director
Liam Clark
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rosaleen Norton, the 'Witch of Kings Cross,' was a real Australian occultist whose erotic pagan art got her repeatedly arrested—Clark's basically smuggling her transgressive energy into experimental cinema.
The syringe in the keywords isn't a typo—Clark deliberately conflates Syrinx the nymph with 'syringe,' suggesting desire as both penetration and escape valve.
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