For the Haunted and Possessed

Horror can reveal the insidious impositions afflicting society, ecology, geopolitical relations and our very bodies. The supernatural and occult can be a tangible force, bringing these oppressions into focus and directing us towards acts of resistance.

Erik Martinson

Total running time 74min

Contains distressing scenes.

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Notes from Gog Magog

Two workers from differing corners of a tech corporation experience visceral embodied horror as they lose themselves in the product/company.

This film is free to watch on BFI Player from 4 to 15 October – find out more

  • Director-Screenwriter

    Riar Rizaldi

  • Indonesia 2022. 20min

  • Languages

    Indonesian, Korean, English
    With English subtitles

Coders

Koduotojai

As an esoteric, Soviet-era self-improvement practice, coding involves following instructions from a mysterious advisor – mind like a computer, programmable.

  • Director-Screenwriter

    Anastasia Sosunova

  • Lithuania 2022. 16min

  • Languages

    Lithuanian, English, Russian
    With English subtitles

Platform Ghosts – Turker, Farmer, Bot

Natural lifecycles, the labour of scavengers pouring over carrion, perform counterpoint to outsourced ghost tales from a Mechanical Turk platform.

  • Director

    Aarti Sunder

  • India 2022. 13min

  • Languages

    Tamil, Kannada, Hindi
    With English subtitles

Onset

Demonic forces possess human and land bodies alike. Ukraine, Syria and Belarus are infected by Russian imperialism, resources extracted parasitically.

This film is free to watch on BFI Player from 4 to 15 October – find out more

  • Directors

    Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich

  • Screenwriters

    Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich, Alex Quicho

  • UK-Poland 2023. 25min

  • Language

    English

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