Warning: contains documentation of violent acts.(both ancient and recent).
Kill God Now (2025) 'Official" music video created for Vancouver band Rat Silo.
Kill God Now is an experimental flash documentary short that illustrates the persistence of merciless hierarchies over millennia (strange how 2025 looks hauntingly
similar to 4500 BCE).
It is a largely internet-sourced, reflecting our 24/7 online live-fed broadcast of both historical and contemporary experience in
relation to power dynamics. The melange of photos and video clips (public domain, CC BY SA 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 by others are properly credited (including
embedded labels on clips). Fiona shot the live footage of wildlife while living at Orbitas in Samara, Costa Rica between 2014 and 2021). The film is additionally injected with my inter-titles,
layers, and text overlays.
At only 3 and a half minutes long, it covers from 4500 BCE with an unknown civilization to the Uruk Empire, through the
Egyptian Empire, Greece, Rome, and later, the Spanish and European inquisitions, and colonization of the Americas. Thus many images of gold spoils and
ruthless carnage abound. It meanders to the near present. The breadth of source media reflects our everyday online experience of rapid-fire live-fed
broadcast of hegemony, largely bereft of encouraging agency.
Directors statement:
"Having been familiar with my gallery installations and public art works, band Rat Silo invited me to create videos for both Kill God Now and I'm A Believer,
the first two singles from their new Album 1933. (I also sang backing vocals on the album). I created the storylines, and variously compiled/curated
and/or created/shot the works appearing in both I'm A Believer and Kill God Now. The strategy underlying the subject matter is to lay bare the mechanics of now
millennia-long hegemony-- is a thread that runs through much of my gallery and public artworks (Slip/host, starring Alan Cumming in both lead roles, being
one of the most biting of examples: Slip Host(2007))""
Please note: this 4K video here has been formatted for this screen. 4444XQ codec (or suitable for context) is deliverable along with ATMOS sound
for those cinemas equipped to deliver immersive sound, or alternately lossless sound. Can send a DCP if requested. Embedded text, inter titles and
credits will also be appropriately sized for cinema screening.
