Kill God Now

Warning: contains Documentation of historical and recent violent acts. Many images of gold spoils and ruthless carnage abound throughout.

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Kill God Now (2025) is a $200.00 CAD budget Official music video created for Vancouver band Rat Silo. (mostly made with pro-bono hours of in-kind work by me, Fiona Bowie. I also added vocals to this song and to the rest of the Album on which Kill God Now is featured).

It is an experimental flash documentary short that illustrates the persistence of merciless hierarchies over millennia (strange how 2025 looks hauntingly similar to 4500 BCE!).

At only three and a half minutes long, it covers from 4500 BCE with an unknown civilization, through the Uruk, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Empires; later, the Spanish and European inquisitions, colonization of the Americas, and finally meandering to the near present.
The evolution of Angels over millennia is featured as a bridge in Kill God Now that exposes hegemony's relationship to religion and disrupts individual religions' conceits.

It is a largely internet-sourced, reflecting our 24/7 online live-fed broadcast of both historical and contemporary experience in relation to power dynamics. (All sources are properly credited in the end credits and include embedded credits on clips and still images. They are combination of personal permissions, public domain, and CC BY SA 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0). It also includes wildlife footage of my own extracted from Fauna (see https://www.fionabowie.org/fauna.html. I shot this live footage of wildlife while living at my studio and artist residency in Samara, Costa Rica between 2014 and 2021). 
The film is additionally injected with my inter-titles, layers, and text overlays.

The breadth of source media reflects our everyday online experience of rapid-fire live-fed broadcast of hegemony, which is usually bereft of encouraging agency.

Fiona Bowie: 
I am a visual artist usually working with immersive media-based installations and commissioned public artworks. I was asked by Vancouver Canada based band Rat Silo to make this video and another Official video for them. (I also added vocals to this song and to the rest of their album 1933, on which Kill God Now is featured, so felt quite close to both the material and being an activist, the subject at hand.)

See further info in Directors statement. 
 

Fiona Bowie's Bio and Ouvre here: https://www.fionabowie.org/bio.html 
CV available at https://www.fionabowie.org/cv.html

I live and work in K'emk'emeláy̓ (Vancouver),  situated on the stolen, unceded, ancestral and current territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With respect and acknowledgement of their aeons-long nationhood, cultures, knowledge, languages and all relations, We support these Nations' ongoing actions and initiatives. We also support  the Wet'suwet'en Chiefs and their Nations ongoing actions and initiatives in their Yintah.Fiona Bowie:
See further info in Directors statement.