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RAGE RITUAL - Purging the Poison

RAGE RITUAL — PURGING THE POISON is a raw experimental performance film created spontaneously three months after fleeing domestic violence.

Part ritual, part exorcism, the work documents the body in a state of psychic and emotional release — purging violation, betrayal, coercion, and accumulated trauma through movement, breath, collapse, rage, and exhaustion.

Filmed alone in isolation, the piece functions as an act of alchemy: transforming toxic psychological poison into motion, expression, and release rather than allowing it to calcify internally and infect others. The work confronts the aftermath of abuse not through narrative, but through physical eruption.

The performance moves between fury, prayer, dissociation, sensuality, grief, survival, and reclamation — revealing the body as both battlefield and site of liberation.

Raw, real, ravaged.

This is what betrayal does.
This is what rape does.
This is what violation does.

And this is what conscious purging can look like when pain is moved through rather than buried.

Contains full female nudity and intense emotional content.

  • Victoria Lynn
    Director
    The NECRO PARLOUR
  • Victoria Lynn
    Producer
    The NECRO PARLOUR
  • Victoria Lynn
    Key Cast
    The NECRO PARLOUR
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    art film, psychological, trauma performance, experimental, ritual
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 36 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 22, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    0 CAD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    iPhone 14 pro
  • Aspect Ratio:
    9:16
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Victoria Lynn

Victoria Lynn is a Canadian Cree Métis multidisciplinary artist working across experimental film, painting, performance, photography, and symbolic installation. Based on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, her practice explores trauma, embodiment, mythology, ritual process, and transformation through emotionally immersive visual language.

After formal studies at the Lorenzo de Medici Art Institute in Florence, Italy, Lynn developed an independent interdisciplinary practice spanning over three decades and more than 400 works. Her work combines movement, symbolic imagery, intuitive process, and experimental editing techniques to investigate the relationship between the body, memory, identity, and psychological transformation.

Through her multimedia project EXIT369, Lynn examines themes of survival, sovereignty, recovery, archetypal dynamics, and the movement from fragmentation toward integration. Her films often function as experiential ritual spaces rather than conventional narratives, prioritizing emotional truth, physical expression, and symbolic resonance over linear storytelling.

Working entirely independently, Lynn’s practice bridges visual art, movement, performance, writing, and experimental moving image as interconnected forms of witnessing, inquiry, and reclamation.

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Director Statement

RAGE RITUAL — PURGING THE POISON was created spontaneously during an intense period of psychological and physical aftermath following domestic violence and coercive trauma. Filmed alone in isolation approximately three months after fleeing abuse, the work emerged less as planned filmmaking and more as an urgent act of embodied release.

I was interested in what happens when emotional pain, violation, fear, rage, and survival energy are allowed to move physically through the body rather than remain suppressed, internalized, or redirected outward onto others. The film became a form of ritualized discharge — an attempt to transform accumulated psychic and emotional poison into movement, breath, sound, collapse, exhaustion, and expression.

Rather than constructing a traditional narrative, I approached the body itself as the primary site of storytelling. The performance moves through cycles of fury, dissociation, sensuality, grief, prayer, confrontation, depletion, and recovery. These shifts were not choreographed in a conventional sense, but emerged intuitively and in real time during filming.

The nudity within the work is not intended as provocation, but as vulnerability and exposure — the body stripped of performance, armour, and social containment. I wanted the piece to retain its rawness and instability rather than aestheticize or overly refine the experience it was documenting.

Visually, the work embraces fragmentation, repetition, abruptness, and duration as part of its emotional language. Moments of exhaustion, stillness, interruption, and collapse were intentionally preserved as part of the ritual process itself rather than edited away for conventional pacing.

At its core, RAGE RITUAL is an exploration of survival, nervous system release, and transformation through embodied expression. It asks what conscious purging can look like when trauma is neither hidden nor weaponized, but physically witnessed and moved through in search of integration and liberation.