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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, sexuality, alienation, the body, narrative short, filmmaker, artist, illustrator

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**Expelling the Demon** a film by Devlin Crow

1999, 5 min

[Film / embedded media](https://player.vimeo.com/video/52887119)

![Expelling the Demon, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/expellingthedemon08.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

Tongue drawn and slaughtered, oral hygiene is reaching new extremes. Berkoff-voiced bedsit man wages war on own mouth after lecherous failing. Words fail, so bleed all about it.

### one sentence synopsis

Following a humiliating sexual encounter, a man’s disaffection and battle with his own tongue culminates in a drastic step.

### key credits

**director**
Devlin Crow

**screenplay**
A-Soma

**editor**
Tony Fish

**music**
NIck Cave
Warren Ellis
Susan Stenger

### Devlin Crow

#### artist’s website

[The Crow's Nest](http://www.crowsnest.org.uk/)

The website for Devlin and Kennedy Crow

### a film by Devlin Crow

### direction

**director**
Devlin Crow

### script

**screenplay**
A-Soma

### image personnel

**rostrum camera**
Peter Tupy

**editor**
Tony Fish

### sound personnel

**music**
NIck Cave
Warren Ellis
Susan Stenger

### support

**additional financial support**
South East Arts Board

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England and Channel Four

© Devlin Crow 1999

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### master copy format

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Expelling the Demon** film, stills and other materials © Devlin Crow 1999