THE DIVINE EDGAR

A short promo for an installation/performance that I have been devising, giving individual audience members the experience of a "premature burial" - an idea which tormented the writer Edgar Allan Poe and featured in many of his best known tales. The piece consists of a sinister "guide", a blacked-out space, a sound installation, and a full-size coffin within which individuals have a multi-sensory experience, including video projections taken from dozens of Poe film adaptions and an original avante garde soundtrack by the band Pram (Domino Records). If Tim Burton was going to create a gothic theme park, The Divine Edgar might be one of the rides... Stills and video are from two previous performances in 2007. For more information contact: Scott Johnston at filmficciones70@aol.com.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• FILM
• FICCIONES
• EDGAR
• ALLAN
• POE
• INSTALLATION
• PRAM
• EXPERIMENTAL
• THEATRE
• CORMAN
• BURIAL
• COFFIN
• GOTHIC
• HORROR
• ART
• HALLOWEEN

[Jannes3]

hey scott

cool stuff, could people walk through the instalation?

greetings

jo

[filmficciones70]

Hey Mr Jo!

++ Yes, you are led though what appears to be a churchyard, although it is pitch black: you approach the coffin of Edgar Allan Poe, the lid is lifted up...and you get inside! With a pair of headphones on, you hear the sound of the coffin being buried, and then something very unexpected and spooky happens....heh heh heh.....++

Okay, so I haven't told you everything...but trust me, it's quite creepy and a lot of fun! :)

[musicmanianessROCKON]

wow.

[rededucator]

Excellent!! Went to this at the Vaults, Birmingham, and my heart rate was still pumping ten minutes after. Not as terrifying as it sounds and strangely life affirming. And thank goodness there is someone in the Midlands who can put on an installation like this.

[Jannes3]

do you keep the coffin at home if you don't use it for installations?? would be a good thing for a permanent installation in basement of the eifel house, wouldn't it?

[motomissle]

Work of art!!