'Slow Black With Ruins' is a short film commissioned for Italian composer Valerio Tricoli last year with experimental video director Christopher Gray (MM studio). Whilst documenting an age-old religious ceremony shot in the region of Salento in the South of Italy, the film uses highly modern methods of digital/film manipulation.

The haunting film follows what is known as the ‘Processione Delle Desolate’, a yearly event where devoted veiled women, covered entirely in black cloth march in weighted procession, reciting a hymn of measured pain. When the footage was completed in December 2016, Tricoli decided to sample the sound captured by the on camera microphone as the foundation for a new original piece, inspired by his works throughout his PAN-released LP, ‘Clonic Earth’. Gray deploys a new visual method, normally associated with enhancing the detail of a 3D model to convert film into a layer only associated with depth. These surfaces were then layered and blended to create a disorientating voyage in a haze.