Elizabeth Tussey Abel Gance’s 1919 silent film, J’accuse, “I Accuse,” captured the terrestrial horrors of World War I in real time and features authentic images of battlefields and soldiers. In 1938, during the early rumblings of World War II, Gance rebooted his own film. While the narrative of the first half of these films features […]
Callie Ingram Riddance: or, the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children (2018) by Shelley Jackson is a multimodal gothic novel that straddles the boundary between the literary “found manuscript” trope and “found footage” aesthetics. A 512-page dossier about the Sybil Joines Vocational School (SJVS), a spiritualist boarding school where children […]
Kevin Cooney H.P. Lovecraft traveled the world without leaving Providence, Rhode Island. Knowledge of riots, famines, scientific breakthroughs, and fresh archaeological discoveries came to the New Englander via America’s flourishing newspaper industry. From that flood of information – often forwarded by fellow writers – Lovecraft wove stories from his fear-filled weltanschauung. I contend that Lovecraft […]
Lauren Gilmore Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. A handful of film students disappear in the woods and all we know about what happened to them is contained on recovered recordings. Or maybe you remember the one about a single mother searching for an antidote for the omen passed to her son from […]
Reece Goodall At the turn of the 1990s, French director Jean-Teddy Filippe made a TV series unlike anything the nation had ever seen before. Les documents interdits (1989-1991, with a one-off special in 2010 to mark the 20th anniversary of the channel Arte) was a series of short films that purported to present genuine footage […]