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

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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

### 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.

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