DEAD GOOD FILMS

Magic, Folklore & Liminal Thresholds

A Samhain Society Dead Good Festival Event

Wednesday 28th October
Doors: 5:30pm – 10:00pm
Margate Arts Club, 276 Northdown Road, Margate, CT9 2PT 

 £15

 As the nights draw in and the veil begins to thin, we’ve carefully selected a collection of Dead Good Films to accompany the Samhain season.

These films take us into the liminal places where the ordinary world gives way to something stranger: where magic, folklore, myth and mystery still linger.

From sacred sites and ancient stone circles to forgotten landscapes, ancestral echoes and the mythic shapeshifting creatures of folklore, these films explore the thresholds between worlds, between human and other-than-human, life and death, waking and dreaming.

 Folk magic, ancient traditions, strange encounters and otherworldly landscapes.

These are films  that capture the spirit of Samhain and its invitation to look beyond the veil. 

FEATURING Q&A's with the directors! 

18:00 Listen to the Past's Long Pulse and The Land Remains + Director's Q&A

19:00 Rolling Shorts Programme

20:00 Surprise feature film + Director's Q&A to be announced 17th October!

A cinematic journey into the wild, weird and wonderful!

Come gather in the dark.. The old stories are still alive!

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THE FILMS

LISTEN TO THE PAST'S LONG PULSE

A film by Boris Thompson-Roylance

Filmed at the ancient standing stones of Avebury and Stanton Drew, this cross-cultural exchange brings Japanese and British folklore into dialogue through landscape, ritual, memory, stillness and movement.

THE LAND REMAINS

A film by Boris Thompson-Roylance

The Land Remains places Britain’s renewed interest in folklore and ritual in dialogue with the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge, exploring how land, migration, and belonging shape national identity today.

MEET THE DIRECTOR

Boris Thompson-Roylance

Boris  is a director and filmmaker known for concept-driven music films, concert visuals, commercials and thought-provoking documentaries exploring folklore, identity and ecology. His work spans major campaigns for Vinted and Red Bull, alongside music films and visuals for artists including Imogen Heap, Nick Mulvey and Franc Moody. His documentary The Land Remains explores Britain’s renewed relationship with folklore, land and ritual against a backdrop of contemporary social issues. Boris has also worked as an executive producer on projects including Swede Caroline and Matar.

SELKIE

A film by Adam Carr, starring Ephyra Ana

In Celtic and Norse mythology, selkies – meaning ‘seal-folk’ – are beings capable of therianthropy: changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. Emerging when the time and tides are correct, seducing or being held captive by human lovers, they are similar to their cousins the ‘kelpies’ and ‘finfolk’. Our composite shape-shifting water siren emerges from her underwater world to ours, casting her spell of seductive and violent dance. Is it love and desire, or appetite and malice? Soon a fleeting wisp, she returns to the aquatic depths, leaving only our quickened pulse and vacant stare.

AWARD NOMINATIONS:

★★★★★ BEST SHORT FILM: Buenos Aires International Film Festival

★★★★★ BEST SHORT FILM: Hermetic International Film Festival

MEET THE DIRECTOR

ADAM CARR

Adam is a UK filmmaker and director with over 15 years’ experience creating short films, music promos, fashion films and art-driven moving image. His work explores mythology, folklore, identity and the strange spaces between the everyday and the otherworldly. He co-founded the cult Shoreditch video shop and production company TODAY IS BORING with his partner, Tree Carr. His films include the award-winning Into the Blue, This Is Not a Fashion Film, My Name Is Swan, pagan folk-horror The Forest Whispers, and Selkie, inspired by Celtic and Norse mythology.