Spectres of Night
(Film trailer) 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 long 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 with an interest in the city’s ghosts, using sensory and social engagements in pursuit of lingering traces from beyond. The result is a short film that 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 temporal 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’ Conference and was exhibited in the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, Estonia in June 2022.
