When Liz Marshall, director, producer and writer of The Ghosts in Our Machine heard the Radiohead song “Give up the Ghost” it became her dream to incorporate that haunting music into her film; she felt it reflected the tone, mood and message of Ghosts perfectly. She wrote to Radiohead and received artist approval to use the song.
“What an exuberant moment to learn that one of my biggest dreams for the film had come true.”
She set the music to a specially designed set of film credits, which are interlaced with images and statistics about the four main animal industries revealed in the film. The result is chilling and beautiful. Until the end of this month (April 2014) this ‘film within a film’ can be seen on youtube, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAG-yXH_juE
If you haven’t yet seen The Ghosts in Our Machine, this sequence might just encourage you to do that. The film is a multi-award winning consciousness raising documentary that gently reveals one of the most haunting moral dilemmas of our modern world.
photo courtesy of The Ghosts in Our Machine
While the provocative film BLACKFISH made waves for exposing the consequences of keeping orcas in captivity, GHOSTS illuminates the plight of many other animals rescued from and living within the machine of our modern world, from captive foxes to rescued dairy cows.
Award-winning filmmaker Liz Marshall directs this visually arresting documentary through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur. The film follows Jo-Anne over the course of a year as she documents several animal stories in parts of Canada, the U.S. and in Europe. Each story and photograph is a window into global animal industries: Food; Fashion; Entertainment and Biomedical Research.
photo courtesy of The Ghosts in Our Machine
Vegan Mainstream did an interview with Liz Marshall before the film’s release, and we have been watching happily as it has made its way around the world, winning awards everywhere it goes. It is a call to awareness, a call to action for us all.
For more information about The Ghosts in Our Machine, to find out where upcoming screenings are being held, or to get info on hosting a screening in your town, visit this site: http://www.theghostsinourmachine.com/