Hexham Heads
Hexham Heads is a medium-length experimental horror film based on a series of paranormal events that took place in the early '70s in Hexham, a small town in Northern England. Tinted by the red safelight of the darkroom, the film (re)constructs a breathless pastoral horror about a place crystallised in time and terrorised by two 6cm tall stone heads whose current location remains unknown. We visit Rede Avenue – the original source of this supernatural energy – through the shivery stillness of Chloë Delanghe’s grainy photographs and an erratic composition performed by an ensemble of improvisers across Ireland and Belgium. In Hexham Heads the joint mysteries of photosensitivity and the stone tape theory – which speculates on how minerals can record and replay the energy of hauntings – create a volatile chemical reaction. Delanghe and Driesen defy the impossibility of capturing ghosts in the lens by immersing us in a psychogeographical journey through infinite doors, windows and passages. - Ane Lopez The film is a collaboration between artist and filmmaker Chloë Delanghe and filmmaker Mattijs Driesen.
