Spectres of Night
(Film trailer above)
Experimental short film, 2022. Co-directed and produced with Noemi Didu and Julia Berg in ‘Encounters with the Urban Night’ 3rd International Artists’ Residency. Hosted by the Visual Research Network and Estonian National Museum in Tartu, Estonia, June 2022.
Emerging from a 1-week multidisciplinary research residency in Tartu, Estonia, Spectres of Night is an experimental ethnographic film that enters Tartu’s nocturnal cityscapes in search of ghosts. A team of three visual anthropologists delved into the urban night, using sensory and social engagements in pursuit of lingering temporal traces. The resulting experimental short film explores stillness and movement, darkness and light, through simple but subtly playful combinations of sound and image. The film’s wandering sensory compositions seek to evoke the spectral presences and absences within Tartu’s urban night, inviting the viewer into the haunted edges of mundane perception.
Spectres of Night screened as part of the ‘Encounters with the Urban Night’ xonference and was exhibited in the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, Estonia in June 2022. The film was exhibited again in ‘Who Claims the Night?’ as part of the museum’s larger exhibition celebrating Tartu as the European Capital of Culture in 2024.
