Artist John Russell has created a work in the November issue of ArtReview that serves as a kind of trailer for this video, a 'drawn film' that is 'retro-coded backwards from the end', unravelling in reverse. Not a sacrifice but a prophesy: immediate, infinite, ecstatic...

VERMILLION VORTEX
A John Russell film

Credits

Primary soundtrack
Music: Rose Kallal
Spoken word: Mark Beasley

Voices: Katie Barrington, Marnie Watts, Maria Deegan & John Russell

Sound engineer: Bob Geal

Special bonus track (after 'The End'): 'Strychnine Motive' (2011), by Gum Takes Tooth