“The eerie, by contrast, is constituted by a failure of absence or by a failure of presence. The sensation of the eerie occurs either when there is something present where there should be nothing, or is there is nothing present when there should be something” - Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie
Empty urban spaces, empty rural landscapes. In a crowded world, emptiness can haunt, or offer a welcome escape; from a deserted shopping mall to a ruined monastery haunted by the voice of Hildegard von Bingen, from a disturbing murder site in a modernist suburban house to a remote abandoned astronomical observatory. New inhabitants begin to occupy these spaces; skateboarders, ghosts, goats - repurposing for their own ends, a place to exist. A programme of new short films for lovers of the hauntological, or those interested in the psychogeography of forgotten spaces.
Philip Ilson
