Pure Filth Society is an ongoing experimental collaboration founded by Ashton Phillips and Dylan Ricards. Their work focuses on the liberating power of filth, the precarity and mutability of form (including the human form), and the pursuit of pleasure, play, and connection as forms of queer resistance and faith.

In this chat, Ashton talks about interspecies performance, the ritual and religious symbolism in their performance, and the individual practices of Pure Filth Society’s performers.

To learn more about Ashton’s film and accompanying postcard by Alicia Piller, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for Ashton and Pure Filth Society's film

• Learn more about Ashton

• Learn more about Pure Filth Society

• Read Ashton's article in Antennae Journal (Summer 2024, pg 14)

• See a peek into how the film was made

• See a close up view of the mealworms

• See the mail art paired with this film