Devil's Night Film Festival's
'Blood & Black Velvet'

A night of art house and avant-garde cinema, immersive performance, and ceremonial spectacle. Experimental shorts, Michigan filmmaker spotlights, live fire performance, movement-based works, and live music score screenings unfold within a shifting world of smoke, shadow, and surreal intervention. Throughout the evening, provocations and invocations blur the line between screen, performance, and living ritual.

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FEATURE FILMS + PERFORMANCES + ARTIST TALKS

 

HALALOWEEN 

U of M's Global Islamic Studios Center leads the journey into Islamic horror and folklore—where faith, myth, and shadow converge through a selection of films and conversations drawn from the evolving world of Muslim horror cinema.
 

• Aicha *Award Winning* film, Director: Sanaa El Alaoui

• Enmity Djinn, Director: Mohamed Echkouna

• Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape

  Live improvised score by destroyxbeauty (Reginald Tiessen) and Victor Ghannam (National Arab Orchestra) 

 

THE UNDEAD : AN EXORCISM OF RELEVANCE

Neither concert nor film, The Undead exists between forms—a transmedia ritual by Detroit's own QUEENFX, where moving image, live performance, and spectral narrative collide in real time.

 

MATER SUSPIRIA VISION 'SPOTLIGHT ARTIST'

Mater Suspiria Vision is a pioneering Witch house and industrial drone music and film project founded by the German visual artist and musician Cosmotropia de Xam. The project is heavily rooted in dark, occult, and cinematic themes inspired by Italian horror films.

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DETROIT UNEARTHED

Exhumed from Detroit's creative underground, this collection of cinematic curiosities, forgotten visions, and artistic oddities defies easy classification. Gathered together for a single evening, these rare fragments reveal the city at its most strange, inventive, and unexpected.

 

MILA LA MACHINA : THE SHE-DEVIL OF EXCESS

An apparition of impossible glamour emerges from a crimson ritual of transformation. In her Devil's Night debut, Mila La Machina conjures a fevered vision where blood becomes ceremony, excess becomes beauty, and the surreal blooms beneath velvet, shadow, and longing.

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LIA LOVE : VELVET VESPER

In her Devil's Night debut, Velvet Vesper conjures a hypnotic performance where movement, tease, and transformation become impossible to separate. Every invitation conceals another illusion, and every illusion leaves the audience wanting one more glimpse.

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