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The Hex of Ergot (Popping Corn)
The Hex of Ergot (Popping Corn)
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THE HEX OF ERGOT (POPPING CORN)

Directed by Cherry Kino
United Kingdom, 2013
Short

    Synopsis

    A Super 8 work entirely edited in camera, and shot and processed in one day during the Spur Exchange artist residency, ‘The hex of ergot (popping corn)’ is a musing on the connection between grain, ergot, the witch-hunt trials in Salem in the 1690s, and consumerism in Leeds.

    Synopsis

    A Super 8 work entirely edited in camera, and shot and processed in one day during the Spur Exchange artist residency, ‘The hex of ergot (popping corn)’ is a musing on the connection between grain, ergot, the witch-hunt trials in Salem in the 1690s, and consumerism in Leeds.