Of Unknown Origin


Of Unknown Origin by Edwin Rostron is inspired by the tape recordings of Raymond Cass, a hearing-aid specialist from Hull and one of the UK’s foremost researchers into ‘Electronic Voice Phenomenon’.


Credits

Director Edwin Rostron
Music Supreme Vagabond Craftsman
Sound Design Edwin Rostron

Featuring the following recordings by Raymond Cass - Raymond Cass, Aircraft Intercept, Radio Luxembourg, Out of this World, Tramping, Dead Machines and Una from the album The Ghost Orchid (PARC CD1) published by Touch Music [MCPS] and Section One and Section Three from parc.web.fm

Thanks to The Raymond Cass Foundation


Synopsis

EVP recordings present messages ‘of unknown origin’ heard in radio frequencies and background noise, and possess a distorted, unearthly quality. Many researchers into the EVP believe they are the voices of the dead. Through a series of fragmentary scenes rendered in pencil and watercolour animation we enter into an unsettling territory somewhere between the real and the abstract. We hear the strange sounds of the EVP, and Cass himself talking about his work. But the film is not ‘about’ Cass, instead it takes the details of his life and work, and the recordings themselves, as a route to explore the hidden realms of the unconscious mind. The film mirrors the uncanny, inexplicable nature of the EVP, the mystery and poetry of the recordings, and challenges rational explanations.