Phantasmagoria and the Tricks of Death - Public Lecture
Phantasmagoria and the Tricks of Death -
Public Lecture at South London Gallery
6 Dec 2024
2:30pm
South London Gallery, Clore Studio
The lecture examines the fascination and narrative function of movements in the moving image. Even before the invention of cinema, animated “spirits” were conjured to satisfy a longing for the spectacle of motion. From the camera obscura and magic lanterns to Phantasmagoria shows, these technologies employed the “tricks of death” to create illusions of motion and simulate reality. This enduring fascination continues into the present day, telling stories through movements themselves. The lecture features a video essay with live narration and interaction.
My publication @24framesoftruth – The Flipbook Machine is also on display.
The lecture is part of Unresolve: a celebration of art practice as research hosted by MA Fine Art, UAL Camberwell College of Arts. The festival features a daily public programme of performances, screenings, talks and workshops, alongside artist books, essays, podcasts and zines.
I also chair a discussion session with artists Hyeyon Chung, Owen Herbert, Rishi Khurana and Xinglin Li after Unresolve: Live! 2.
Films featured in the lecture:
The Arrival of a Train by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1895)
The Kiss in the Tunnel by George Albert Smith (1899)
Train Again by Peter Tscherkassky (2021)
The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter (1903)
Odd Man Out by Carol Reed (1947)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-Luc Godard
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese (1976)
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
pièce touché (1989) and passage à l’acte (1993) by Martin Arnold
Land Without Bread by Luis Buñuel (1933)
The Automobile Accident by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1905)
The Vanishing Lady by Georges Méliès (1896)
How It Feels to Be Run Over by Cecil M. Hepworth (1900)
Passion (2008) and The Depths (2010) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon by Louis Lumière (1895)
Universal Exhibition 1900: View of a Moving Sidewalk by the Lumière Brothers (1900)
Rainbow Dance by Len Lye (1936)
Adebar by Peter Kubelka (1957)
Trio A by Yvonne Rainer (1978)
Abbey Road Movies by Kai Fung Dennis Ngan (2024)
What happened on Twenty Third Street, New York City by George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter (1901)
The Seven Year Itch by Billy Wilder (1955)
Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais (1961)
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick (1980)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma (2019)
Music:
Amazing Plan by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
The lecture examines the fascination and narrative function of movements in the moving image. Even before the invention of cinema, animated “spirits” were conjured to satisfy a longing for the spectacle of motion. From the camera obscura and magic lanterns to Phantasmagoria shows, these technologies employed the “tricks of death” to create illusions of motion and simulate reality. This enduring fascination continues into the present day, telling stories through movements themselves. The lecture features a video essay with live narration and interaction.
My publication @24framesoftruth – The Flipbook Machine is also on display.
The lecture is part of Unresolve: a celebration of art practice as research hosted by MA Fine Art, UAL Camberwell College of Arts. The festival features a daily public programme of performances, screenings, talks and workshops, alongside artist books, essays, podcasts and zines.
I also chair a discussion session with artists Hyeyon Chung, Owen Herbert, Rishi Khurana and Xinglin Li after Unresolve: Live! 2.
Films featured in the lecture:
The Arrival of a Train by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1895)
The Kiss in the Tunnel by George Albert Smith (1899)
Train Again by Peter Tscherkassky (2021)
The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter (1903)
Odd Man Out by Carol Reed (1947)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-Luc Godard
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese (1976)
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
pièce touché (1989) and passage à l’acte (1993) by Martin Arnold
Land Without Bread by Luis Buñuel (1933)
The Automobile Accident by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1905)
The Vanishing Lady by Georges Méliès (1896)
How It Feels to Be Run Over by Cecil M. Hepworth (1900)
Passion (2008) and The Depths (2010) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon by Louis Lumière (1895)
Universal Exhibition 1900: View of a Moving Sidewalk by the Lumière Brothers (1900)
Rainbow Dance by Len Lye (1936)
Adebar by Peter Kubelka (1957)
Trio A by Yvonne Rainer (1978)
Abbey Road Movies by Kai Fung Dennis Ngan (2024)
What happened on Twenty Third Street, New York City by George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter (1901)
The Seven Year Itch by Billy Wilder (1955)
Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais (1961)
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick (1980)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma (2019)
Music:
Amazing Plan by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Film list of the accompany talk:
The Arrival of a Train by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1895)
The Kiss in the Tunnel by George Albert Smith (1899)
Train Again by Peter Tscherkassky (2021)
The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter (1903)
Odd Man Out by Carol Reed (1947)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-luc
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese (1976)
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
pièce touché (1989) and passage à l’acte (1993) by Martin Arnold
Land Without Bread by Luis Buñuel (1933)
The Automobile Accident by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1905)
The Vanishing Lady by Georges Méliès (1896)
How It Feels to Be Run Over by Cecil M. Hepworth (1900)
Passion (2008) and The Depths (2010) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Phantasmagoria and the Tricks of Death - Public Lecture
Phantasmagoria and the Tricks of Death -
Public Lecture at South London Gallery
6 Dec 2024
2:30pm
South London Gallery, Clore Studio
The lecture examines the fascination and narrative function of movements in the moving image. Even before the invention of cinema, animated “spirits” were conjured to satisfy a longing for the spectacle of motion. From the camera obscura and magic lanterns to Phantasmagoria shows, these technologies employed the “tricks of death” to create illusions of motion and simulate reality. This enduring fascination continues into the present day, telling stories through movements themselves. The lecture features a video essay with live narration and interaction.
My publication @24framesoftruth – The Flipbook Machine is also on display.
The lecture is part of Unresolve: a celebration of art practice as research hosted by MA Fine Art, UAL Camberwell College of Arts. The festival features a daily public programme of performances, screenings, talks and workshops, alongside artist books, essays, podcasts and zines.
I also chair a discussion session with artists Hyeyon Chung, Owen Herbert, Rishi Khurana and Xinglin Li after Unresolve: Live! 2.
Films featured in the lecture:
The Arrival of a Train by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1895)
The Kiss in the Tunnel by George Albert Smith (1899)
Train Again by Peter Tscherkassky (2021)
The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter (1903)
Odd Man Out by Carol Reed (1947)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-Luc Godard
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese (1976)
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
pièce touché (1989) and passage à l’acte (1993) by Martin Arnold
Land Without Bread by Luis Buñuel (1933)
The Automobile Accident by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1905)
The Vanishing Lady by Georges Méliès (1896)
How It Feels to Be Run Over by Cecil M. Hepworth (1900)
Passion (2008) and The Depths (2010) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon by Louis Lumière (1895)
Universal Exhibition 1900: View of a Moving Sidewalk by the Lumière Brothers (1900)
Rainbow Dance by Len Lye (1936)
Adebar by Peter Kubelka (1957)
Trio A by Yvonne Rainer (1978)
Abbey Road Movies by Kai Fung Dennis Ngan (2024)
What happened on Twenty Third Street, New York City by George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter (1901)
The Seven Year Itch by Billy Wilder (1955)
Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais (1961)
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick (1980)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma (2019)
Music:
Amazing Plan by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
The lecture examines the fascination and narrative function of movements in the moving image. Even before the invention of cinema, animated “spirits” were conjured to satisfy a longing for the spectacle of motion. From the camera obscura and magic lanterns to Phantasmagoria shows, these technologies employed the “tricks of death” to create illusions of motion and simulate reality. This enduring fascination continues into the present day, telling stories through movements themselves. The lecture features a video essay with live narration and interaction.
My publication @24framesoftruth – The Flipbook Machine is also on display.
The lecture is part of Unresolve: a celebration of art practice as research hosted by MA Fine Art, UAL Camberwell College of Arts. The festival features a daily public programme of performances, screenings, talks and workshops, alongside artist books, essays, podcasts and zines.
I also chair a discussion session with artists Hyeyon Chung, Owen Herbert, Rishi Khurana and Xinglin Li after Unresolve: Live! 2.
Films featured in the lecture:
The Arrival of a Train by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1895)
The Kiss in the Tunnel by George Albert Smith (1899)
Train Again by Peter Tscherkassky (2021)
The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter (1903)
Odd Man Out by Carol Reed (1947)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-Luc Godard
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese (1976)
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
pièce touché (1989) and passage à l’acte (1993) by Martin Arnold
Land Without Bread by Luis Buñuel (1933)
The Automobile Accident by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1905)
The Vanishing Lady by Georges Méliès (1896)
How It Feels to Be Run Over by Cecil M. Hepworth (1900)
Passion (2008) and The Depths (2010) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon by Louis Lumière (1895)
Universal Exhibition 1900: View of a Moving Sidewalk by the Lumière Brothers (1900)
Rainbow Dance by Len Lye (1936)
Adebar by Peter Kubelka (1957)
Trio A by Yvonne Rainer (1978)
Abbey Road Movies by Kai Fung Dennis Ngan (2024)
What happened on Twenty Third Street, New York City by George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter (1901)
The Seven Year Itch by Billy Wilder (1955)
Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais (1961)
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick (1980)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma (2019)
Music:
Amazing Plan by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Film list of the accompany talk:
The Arrival of a Train by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1895)
The Kiss in the Tunnel by George Albert Smith (1899)
Train Again by Peter Tscherkassky (2021)
The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter (1903)
Odd Man Out by Carol Reed (1947)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-luc
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese (1976)
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
pièce touché (1989) and passage à l’acte (1993) by Martin Arnold
Land Without Bread by Luis Buñuel (1933)
The Automobile Accident by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1905)
The Vanishing Lady by Georges Méliès (1896)
How It Feels to Be Run Over by Cecil M. Hepworth (1900)
Passion (2008) and The Depths (2010) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi