Vex Ashley Movies

Connection through shattered mirrors, black paint, candles, and cold cement

Wilhelm Reich's in The Function of the Orgasm theorised a powerful bioelectrical sexual life force he called orgone energy, it could be harnessed...

A purification ritual, salt and water.

The history of traditional portraiture was about status and branding. With Atrophy Portraits we break down the layers of constructed perfection....

A forced perspective through lips

It’s about the pull, the draw, of the visceral sensation, the gravitational pull towards the centre of the black hole. So potent that...

Hazy, dreamy, breathlessness. Gasping, exhaling.

Both raised with Catholicism to varying degrees and both devout femme dykes, their relationship weaves the symbolism and practices of the church with...

Textures and second skin causing confinement only to be released, squeezed through.

Barriers are an augmentation not just a limit - they have potential for new sensations. Bodies take on different qualities. Smooth, shiny...

A transference of energy; an exothermic reaction. The marks are product. A way of distilling intangible energy into physical permanence. Skin is the...

We broadcast our image in cells and pixels across continents, viewed by lenses, pushed through codecs and compression algorithms, adapting new ways...

The thiasus, was the ecstatic retinue of Dionysus.

Folk Horror as a film genre explores the power of ritual, stories passed down through generations and long forgotten. Taking sanitised modern life...