Satan Kingdom Babylon

An experimental documentary by Marie Šprincl and Petr Šprincl delves into the darkest corners of America’s hate-fueled subcultures, confronting the viewer with a visceral, sensory experience. Through a haunting mosaic of raw footage and interviews with cult leaders, the story follows a fictional detective investigating the disappearance of a young woman in a post-apocalyptic hotel. His search leads him deep into the world of the Ku Klux Klan, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Black Hebrews, and other religious movements of Trump’s America. The end is here.

Marie Šprincl’s first feature-length documentary. The film’s distribution premiere took place in October 2025.

The work of Marie and Petr Šprincl is characterized by unsettling poetics drawing on the darker sides of reality and by the use of 8mm film material and VHS technology. The audiovisual dimension of their work is often complemented by rich iconography extending beyond the medium of the moving image. Their practice balances between fiction, documentary, and experiment, with a shared focus on exploring various social forms of evil, often hidden beneath the thin surface of everyday reality. Alongside the film Satan Kingdom Babylon, they are the authors of the Moravia, O Fair Land trilogy (2015–2019) and Vienna Calling (2018). In addition to film, they also work with music videos, theatre productions, and gallery installations.