Having survived Halloween, Brook is joined by his (award-winning) Reeling Off co-star, Milo, to discuss the relationship of the ghost to technology. Following a chronology ranging all the way from Bazin and Benjamin's early 20th century film theory, to the Japanese horror films of the late 90s/early 2000s, we examine how, as the hum of machinery becomes more pervasive, the ghost moves ever closer.
Works discussed include "The Wind in the Woods" (Bessie Kyffin-Taylor 1920), "The Ontology of the Photographic Image" (André Bazin 1947), "Uncle Phil on TV" (J B Priestley 1953), "On Photography" (Susan Sontag 1977), The Ring (Hideo Nakata 1998), Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2001) and Inland Empire (David Lynch 2006). Kyffin-Taylor and Priestley's stories are compiled in the brilliant "The Night Wire", ed. Aaron Worth (2022)
