Operation Bogeyman
Aeppli, Simon (2020) Operation Bogeyman. [Film]
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Feature length hybrid documentary (in development).
This is the story of how a clandestine military organisation, Information Policy Unit (IPU), coordinated fake satanic rituals throughout Northern Ireland during the early 70’s to create terror and confusion across the province. The ‘Satanic Panic’ scare is one of the strangest tactics carried out by the British Military and marks the convergence of a new way of working with intelligence as a weapon to combat terrorism. Members of IPU used fear and superstition as a kind of technology to tap into and confabulate the space between local supernatural lore and organised religion. The unit worked with specific sites, which where steeped in centuries of myths and occult belief systems, staged black masses and leaked the reports to local newspapers.
Working closely with the main architect of the scare, Colin Wallace, the film explores this intersection between folk history and unorthodox/asymmetric military warfare in Northern Ireland through the reappropriation of archive material in combination with impressionistic reconstruction, first hand accounts and anecdotal histories.
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