CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS (1948) – A SPECIAL EDITION

You’d have thought what with all the attention over the years, the surrealists would have pretty much hit the bottom in terms of “enlargements” for certain films. Surely Edna Romney’s 1948 cacklefest The Corridor of Mirrors has been done to death? And yet, it just happens that, while giving it a go on a cold [...]

2022-12-31T18:00:08+00:00December 31st, 2022|Essay, Film, Games|

COMPUTER WITCH: HEXED TECH EXEGESIS

Technical possibility, if appropriately misinterpreted, is also an opening for the spectral imagination. My new favourite piece of speculative "Halloween Tech" (that is, perhaps, technology specifically engineered to facilitate haunting) is the Computer Witch. I discovered the Computer Witch, appropriately enough, while randomly watching a low resolution internet upload of the 1977 cartoon Halloween special [...]

2022-10-30T18:13:58+00:00October 30th, 2022|Essay, Film, Object|

Egregore Documentary

https://vimeo.com/709334938 Featuring: Steven Cline, Hazel Cline, Aaron Dylan Kearns, Juli Maria Kearns, Megan Leach, Steve Morrison Egregore soundscape: Hazel Cline, Martin Kearns Egregorrhea #6 - Surrealist Egregores, Or, How To Take A Collect Call Collectively written by Jason Abdelhadi and narrated by Juli Maria Kearns Film, editing, original background music: Aaron Dylan Kearns [...]

2022-05-15T11:19:50+00:00May 15th, 2022|Film|

Polymorph Bodyshop Documentary

Documentation, editing, structure: Aaron Dylan Kearns Broken iPhone videography: Martin E. Kearns Featuring: Steven Cline, Casi Cline, Mattias Forshage, Jason Abdelhadi, Steve Morrison, Megan Leach, Ladonna Smith Music: Tim White, Craig S. Wilson, The Bim Prongs, Casi Cline, Fluxnois (Post-credits sequence) Animation: Aaron Dylan Kearns Runtime: 40:03

2020-01-01T02:16:42+00:00January 1st, 2020|Film|

An Attempt at Busby Berkeley Exegesis

Love will take you by the hand And lead you to its wonderland Forget about your rainbow schemes Spin a little web of dreams Busby Berkeley is the hermetic tardigrade of cinema. Busby becomes our homunculus each time we view the pleasures of his celluloid geometry. Each time we “bring our broken melody” into his [...]

2020-01-08T16:53:45+00:00March 3rd, 2019|Essay, Film|
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