At worst, horror in television discolours the entire genre and gets thrown onto the pile of would-be terror inducers from the mid-late 2000s Hollywood scare machine. But at best, it does what 'Channel Zero' (SyFy channel, Nick Antosca) does - it... Continue Reading →
That which is uncanny is most unnerving. It's not demonstrative enough to be out-right terrifying and yet there's an implication that something seems very wrong. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that something seems very 'odd'. It's... Continue Reading →
Our obsession with dreams is ancient and deep, to the point where it pushes us to internalise our fascination until our dreaming becomes part of who we are. The process goes full circle, and the representation of our inner machinations... Continue Reading →
"Language bearers. Photographers. Diary Makers. You with your memory are dead, frozen. Lost in a present that never stops passing. Here lives the incantation of matter. A language forever." These are the first words we see on screen as the... Continue Reading →
Translation is a dark art, and one that flings you into a void space between languages, a space that highlights just how fragile your worldview might be. It's shocking how much language influences your understanding of emotive and epistemological concepts.... Continue Reading →
I know I gave a nice little plan about what I was gong to write about in my last article, and that was what I intended to follow - but then I saw Pavel Khvaleev's 'III: The Ritual' (2015) and... Continue Reading →
I probably talk more about wanting to write about 'Silent Hill' (Team Silent, Konami, 1999) than I do about anything. But that's only because it's so fundamentally unsettling through its surreal exposition, and such a perfect example of contemporary art... Continue Reading →
Today we've got another momentous surrealist work which I've definitely been putting off for the simple reason that I can't possibly sum it up. It is of course Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 cult classic, 'The Holy Mountain'. It has parodies and critiques... Continue Reading →
The process of observation is important with art or anything similar. By witnessing something, the viewer becomes one of the most important parts of the equation. How the viewer experiences art is as much a part of the creative exposition... Continue Reading →
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