Let the dead speak! Programmed by Christine Metropoulos, the fifth vignette in our Dead Media suite offers a night of innovation through excavation, repurposing, and reanimation. We begin with a nod to pre-cinema as Thomas Carnacki (Greg Scharpen and cohorts) intones its miscellanea and machines amidst a shadow-puppet theater, to invoke a decidedly visual symphony. We enter the realm of cinema, as hand-processing maven Vanessa O'Neill re-registers the projection experience with her multiple-16mm paean of layered and reworked film, to live sound by Kent Long. And we extend beyond cinema, as Elise Baldwin conjures a Chimera, from her series of turntable performances incorporating miniature dioramas on vinyl, live video, sound, lighting, and archival imagery.
