TRAILER: Imaginal Soundtracking Vol. 2: 鬼, The Demon

Phantom Limbs continues its soundtrack series Imaginal Soundtracking, in which contemporary musicians are invited to rescore existing film pieces, with five new scores to a 1972 stopmotion work by Japanese master puppeteer Kihachiro Kawamoto. Designed to reframe overlooked or forgotten works of cinema and to offer a new artistic challenge to the contributing musicians, Imaginal Soundtracking acts as a dialogue between the creative minds at play. The second release in the series sees a quintet of highly inventive, wildly varying takes on Japanese stopmotion animation 鬼 eng: The Demon, created in 1972 by Kihachiro Kawamoto. The film is based on ancient Japanese mythology, telling the story of a demonpossessed mother hiding her true identity from her sons. Created from traditional bunraku puppetry, painstakingly shot with manual stopmotion, Kawamotos film is beautifully expressive. It conjures sorrow, superstition, horror and honour, all uniquely materialised within a delicate and ornate miniature wor