Film by Elena Isolini

A spirit has found itself on the planes of this rhelm. A banishing to an earthly space where waiting is all that waits for them. Those who find a spirit will know, that you will never forget it. A ghost learning how to haunt and home.



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On ‘Vanguard,’ multidisciplinary performer Bianca Scout channels the spirits of her “goth opera,” The Heart of the Anchoress, in a visual that shape-shifts between folk horror and documentary, directed by Elena Isolini. Blurring ballet dance into ecstatic rituals of supplication, Scout flashes through a choreography of possession, contorting the definition of the track’s title, ‘the forefront or action of a movement,’ into a primal physical language. “I’m weaponising my own body, seeing myself as a chamber, of secrets, layers, fortress, manipulated structures,” writes Scout in a text accompanying the film. “Like the religious map / wrap themselves in, to confinement. To break inside, upside down, other land, new territory, thinking about this land and hierarchy and the structures shifting in and outside of us.”

“The video concept revolves around a spirit who is learning how to haunt,” says director Elena Isolini. “I’ve always been drawn to split universes, this idea that there are two co-existing versions of ourselves. The spirit is searching for a purpose and home, and this video depicts that transitional state. Acceptance and resistance is a big theme for me, and there is a comfort in the void and fear in the familiarity. The disorientation of images mixed with POV is used to immerse the viewer in an interpretation of that horror.”