THE ANIMAL DRUMS | London Develops Worse
a feature length film, free to watch online www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWL7DmnW0mg Joshua Alexander and Steven J. Fowler : 2019 - 75 minutes.
Charting the particular, baffled and morbid character of English attitudes to mortality, The Animal Drums depicts the specific influence of urban space on the psyche. An attempt to create a distinctly poetic film, fusing documentary, montage and improvisation, the film explores the sad, macabre, abstract threat of a contemporary London in the grips of constant and nefarious growth. Recalling the tableu film-making of Peter Greenaway and the lyrical disjunction of Harold Pinter, the film features appearances from authors like Iain Sinclair and Stewart Home, alongside actors like Edie Deffebach and Simon Christian.
Lots more on the film can be found here www.stevenjfowler.com/animaldrums
An essay review of The Animal Drums by poet and critic David Spittle on Hotel Magazine https://partisanhotel.co.uk/After-Animal-Drums
Iain Sinclair’s amazing new text responding to The Animal Drums, read at the Whitechapel Gallery premiere, published as audio on the Tyrant Hotel audio magazine http://magazine.nytyrant.com/tyrant-hotel-mother-pig-opposing-disneyland/
Read here an interview which discusses The Animal Drums as part of The Light Glyphs series https://www.dspittle.com/single-post/2019/07/22/8-Light-Glyphs-Steve-Fowler