



Chloë Delanghe, Mattijs Driesen
35:24
Belgium, UK
English
Hexham Heads
赫克瑟姆石人头
2024
Asian Premiere
In 1971, a family living in the town of Hexham was plagued by a series of paranormal events. After bringing a pair of small stone heads into their home, the family became terrorized by the ghostly sounds and images these objects exerted. Hexham Heads adopts an impressionistic approach to this contemporary folk tale. Tinted by the red safelight of the darkroom, the film (re)constructs a breathless pastoral horror about a place crystallized in time and terrorized by two 6cm tall stone heads whose current location remains unknown. We visit Rede Avenue – the original source of this supernatural energy – through the shivery stillness of Chloë Delanghe’s grainy photographs and an erratic composition of Sam Comerford performed by an ensemble of musicians across Ireland and Belgium. In Hexham Heads the joint mysteries of photosensitivity and the stone tape theory – which speculates on how minerals can record and replay the energy of hauntings – create a volatile chemical reaction. Delanghe and Driesen defy the impossibility of capturing ghosts in the lens by immersing us in a psychogeographical journey through infinite doors, windows and passages.
1971年,住在赫克瑟姆镇上的一家人遭遇了一系列超自然事件。在将一对小石人头带回家后,这家人受到这些物体所施加的幽灵般的声音和图像的恐吓。《赫克瑟姆石人头》采用印象派的方式处理这个现代民间传说。影片在暗室的红色安全灯下(重新)构建了一种令人窒息的田园恐怖故事,讲述一个被时间凝固的地方,被两个6厘米高的石头头颅所恐吓,它们至今不知所踪。影片通过克洛伊·德朗热(Chloë Delanghe)富有颗粒感的照片中震颤着的静默,与由来自爱尔兰和比利时的一组音乐家合奏的萨姆·科默福德(Sam Comerford)诡谲的曲目,探访了这一超自然能量的发源处——瑞德大道。在《赫克瑟姆石人头》中,光敏性与石带理论(推测矿物质如何记录和重放鬼魂的能量)的共同奥密产生了一种不稳定的化学反应。德朗热和德里森(Driesen)让我们沉浸在穿梭于无数门、窗和通道的心理-地理学之旅中,挑战了在镜头中捕捉幽灵的不可能性。