Imagine being trapped in a room, the walls are made out of orange, rusted metal and there's a large red carpet on the floor, lit only by the faint glow of a lamp in the corner. There are no windows.... Continue Reading →
“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative” Disgusting. Pornographic, un-American trash. or...a modern masterpiece? The last censorship court... Continue Reading →
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. They are like water. Unsurprisingly fragile and yet indescribably deep. Our obsession drives us. To internalise our fascination until dreaming becomes part of who we are. It all goes full circle. 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 →
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