# animate! › Films › Expelling the Demon by Devlin Crow

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/expellingthedemon/

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)

### a film by Devlin Crow

### 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.

### key credits

**director**
Devlin Crow

**screenplay**
A-Soma

**editor**
Tony Fish

**music**
NIck Cave
Warren Ellis
Susan Stenger

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