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Tag: Phantasmagoria

Before film, theatres ruled. Today, we associate phantasmagoria with the bizarre, surreal, and imagined. Shots contain unconventional elements that contradict, challenge, or misdirect the audience. It can feel dreamy as if evoking a nostalgic half-thought at once familiar. But it can also be nightmarish. Fears of ghosts, phantoms, and demons converge, and the screen that separates us from them grows thinner with each moment. Phantasmagoria asks you to question your reality and its normalcy. It asks: Is there another way to see the world?

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…

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