Phantasmagoria This Fear’s Got a Hold on Me: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 Director and writer Ana Lily Amirpour knew exactly what she was doing when she titled her 2014 “Iranian vampire Western horror film”, allegedly the first of its kind, A Girl…
Phantasmagoria The Past That Haunts Us: Memory as History in The Act of Killing 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 We often think of memory and history hand in hand. We recall the what's happened previously through memories, but some things stand out more than others: we remember our first…
Phantasmagoria Rendering the Dream in the Simulation: Paprika 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 Satoshi Kon’s animated film Paprika (2006) explores the phantasmagoric and fantastic between the blurred states of dreams and reality where the hyperreal, the uncanny, and the inexplicable manifest that link…
Phantasmagoria The Card Game Possessed by Spirits 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 Video games are always fun for me, especially in the way they immerse you and make you participate as a player. While with movies you only have to watch what…
Phantasmagoria Ghost in the Shell and the Chilling, Not So Chill, State of Contemporary Souls 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 Many, maybe too many, artistic reflections have been made about life in the new millennium, especially in cinema. Some tend to romanticize our future; others are more worried about a…
Phantasmagoria Digital Phantoms: Martine Syms’s Ugly Plymouths 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 The shattered limitations imposed by phantasmagoria are part of why it has the potential to be ever-evolving in visual culture. The genesis of phantasmagoria can be traced back to the…
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