Experimental Response Cinema's Halloween Show 2017 Adam Scovell: Haunted Lands

Please join us for a very special seasonal event featuring the Super 8 film works of Adam Scovell, presented here for the first time in the US in digital projections. Adam is a London-based filmmaker, scholar, critic, blogger and author whose work explores the distinctly British realms of folk horror, hauntology and psychogeography. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Adam via Skype.

“There is a grain to certain representations of landscape that I believe truly has the ability to capture their essence. This essence is difficult to describe, partly because it is effectively ineffable but also because it highlights a boundary between the analogue capture of an image and the digital capture of an image. I shoot films on super-8 film, often with stock that is barely much younger than I am. There are a multitude of differences in the change of practice – from a seemingly endless amount of crisp footage produced by a DSLR to an incredibly battered, finite collection of images on celluloid – but, for me, the key change is what the texture of a film conveys through such landscapes. When the light enters a digital camera and bounces off a mirror, it provides an almost exact representation of what it sees. Yet expressions of landscape in all arts has never been about exact representation very much because our presence in various landscapes taps into more than representation but feeling, even perhaps something closer to phenomenology.” – Adam Scovell