Carnival of Souls

VIDEODROOM 2022: Carnival of Souls - MIAUX
Born in Sarajevo but settled in Antwerp for quite some time now,MIAUX is the alter ego of Mia Prce. Armed with a Casio and devastating songwriting skills, she makes minimalist, melancholic music that’s steeped in mystery. For VIDEODROOM, she will provide the cult classic Carnival of Souls with a completely new score, which she will perform live. The original score’s church organs make way for Miaux’s analogue synthesiser.

A young church organist inexplicably emerges unscathed from a fatal car accident. Hoping to put her trauma behind her, she moves to Salt Lake City. Haunted by the past and estranged from the present, she is drawn to a dilapidated fairground pavilion. Carnival of Souls is the only feature film by American director Herk Harvey, who taught himself how to shoot a film by making hundreds of short films for companies and schools. He took three weeks off work to shoot his gloomy tale for just $30,000. Praised for his inventiveness, Harvey delivered a dreamy and haunting cinematic curiosum. As if Antonioni were stuk in The Twilight Zone. This independent cult classic had a direct influence on Night of the Living Dead and also inspired David Lynch and Christian Petzold, as proven by his unofficial remake Yella.