David Panos’ film Gothic Revival has featured in Prospect Magazine’s 2023 ‘Films of the Year’ list. 

“Goth music—its history and heroes—has occasioned many books in 2023. None of those were remotely as charged as artist-filmmaker Panos’s split-screen work set in Northampton, home to the band Bauhaus, whose skeletal song “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is part of the Goth pantheon. The song is mostly heard in fragments performed by local outfit Raven Rust, and is intercut with footage of contemporary religious spaces, partially redacted vox pops (“I believe we should bring back the old ways”) and eerie digital imagery. Fear, yearning, revenant forces: this Northampton—buried, undead—feels like much of modern Britain.”