WHERE WILL THE SOULS OF THE DEAD LIVE NOW?

Angel Meadow is a crucible land. Once bucolic, it became home to a notorious slum in the years of the industrial revolution, and at its northern end a now anonymous pauper’s burial ground conceals the bodies of up to 40,000 people.

In recent years a vast sum of money from Hong Kong has been invested in regenerating the local district, and Angel Meadow, deemed a park these days, is slowly being surrouned by high rise apartment blocks.

Simple questions seem to come to me when I’m sitting in Angel Meadow, as I often do. The Not Quite Light project began by asking the simple question “what would these souls think of this modern city?” And recently, as I looked up at the glass towers, casting the ground into deep shadow as the sun sets, I wondered about the buried souls, and where they would now live, as the vast buildings seem to be a catalyst for an exorcism of these local spirits.

This short film was inspired by this thought.