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Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle

en 52m
Documentary
Vision Quest depicts Marcus Coates’ three-year collaboration with a neighbourhood in Elephant & Castle (South London) that is suffering from a violent gentrification scheme. In this period the artist engaged in a shamanic quest to locate animal spirits able of guiding the community. Practising lengthily rites, the artist together with residents, local politicians and a psychedelic doom rock orchestra, appeal to guardian animals to appear in visions or dreams and to guide them in their troubled housing issues.

Cinematography

Annemarie Lean-Vercoe

Director

Marcus Coates

Director

Michael Smythe

Editor

Ariadna Fatjó-Vilas

Producer

Piera Buckland

Producer

Marcus Coates

Status

Released

Countries

    Companies

    • NOMAD Cine