The work features performances by Yumna Marwan, Elizabeth Peace and boychild, and by Al-Maria herself. Each one is cast against the science fiction backdrop of a solar battle, as evoked by Etel Adnan’s in her 1989 war poem, ‘The Arab Apocalypse’. Beast Type Song was shot in the derelict former campus of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in Holborn, London.