Private Project

The NECRO PARLOUR

Honouring the Sacred process of Avian Taxidermy

  • Victoria Lynn
    Director
  • Victoria Lynn
    Writer
  • Victoria Lynn
    Producer
  • Victoria Lynn
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 53 minutes 41 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 14, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    250,000 CAD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    iPhone 14 pro
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Distribution Information
  • VIMEO OTT https://pacificspiritfineart.vhx.tv/products/the-necro-parlour
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: Video on Demand, Pay Per View
Director Biography - Victoria Lynn

Victoria Lynn is a Canadian Cree Métis multidisciplinary artist based on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. After formal training at the Lorenzo de Medici Art Institute in Florence, Italy, she developed a self-directed practice spanning painting, sculptural installation, avian taxidermy, and experimental film.

Her work explores transformation, mortality, embodiment, memory, and the relationship between shadow and renewal. Working intuitively across mediums, Lynn creates immersive symbolic worlds informed by mythology, nature, ritual process, and lived experience.

Deeply influenced by the forests, coastline, and wildlife surrounding her home, her practice often examines the tension between beauty and decay, preservation and impermanence, instinct and consciousness. Ravens and other avian forms recur throughout her work as symbolic messengers occupying liminal spaces between worlds.

The Necro Parlour is her first feature experimental film and forms part of an ongoing body of avian taxidermy and mixed media work developed between 2023–present.

Victoria Lynn is the founder of Pacific Spirit Fine Art and EXIT369, an independent multidisciplinary art practice exploring transformation through symbolic storytelling and embodied visual language.

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Director Statement

The Necro Parlour emerged during a profound period of personal transformation and creative awakening. After relocating to the British Columbia coast, I found myself increasingly drawn toward nature, ritual process, and the symbolic intelligence of birds — particularly Ravens and corvids, which became recurring presences within both my life and artistic practice.

My introduction to avian taxidermy began unexpectedly in 2023 after discovering a small Northern Saw-whet Owl on my property. What initially felt unsettling quickly transformed into fascination, reverence, and a desire to understand the delicate threshold between life, death, preservation, and memory.

This film is not intended as a traditional documentary, but rather as an intimate and immersive visual meditation moving through the emotional, symbolic, and physical process of avian taxidermy. Combining observational footage, experimental imagery, atmosphere, and ritualistic visual language, The Necro Parlour invites viewers into a space where beauty, discomfort, transformation, and mortality coexist.

The work explores the act of preservation not as conquest over death, but as a form of witnessing — an attempt to honour fragility, transience, and the mysterious intelligence woven throughout the natural world.

Created independently while navigating immense personal upheaval, the film became both artistic process and psychological refuge; a way of grounding myself through tactile creation, devotion to craft, and communion with nature.

At its core, The Necro Parlour is a film about transformation: of matter, of grief, of identity, and of learning to find meaning within the shadow as much as the light.