READING PATHS
Follow the connection.
Four routes through the existing archive. Begin anywhere; each stop opens a different part of the question.
SIEGES & ENCLOSED SPACES
When the walls close in
A station, a precinct, a church: start with the places that promise protection, then follow what happens when that promise fails.
Assault on Precinct 13
Begin with the precinct: a shared defence brings strangers into an uneasy alliance.
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The Thing
Move to the outpost, where the danger may already be inside the group.
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Prince of Darkness
Enter a church where a research team’s instruments meet an older account of evil.
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Ghosts of Mars
Return to the siege through a prisoner transport, a mining settlement and a fractured account of the fight.
Enter the dossier ↗PARANOIA & IDENTITY
Can you trust what you see?
Bodies, advertisements and stories become unreliable evidence. These dossiers approach the problem from different directions.
The Thing
Ask what a body can prove when imitation defeats recognition.
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They Live
Put the city’s surfaces under suspicion: seeing a command is only the beginning.
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In the Mouth of Madness
Follow a book into the world and examine the boundaries between authorship, belief and experience.
Enter the dossier ↗THE COLLABORATORS
Keep the names in the frame
Follow the writing, photography, production and effects work that gives each film its particular shape.
Dark Star
Start with Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon, and the move from student project to feature.
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Halloween
Keep Debra Hill’s writing and producing work alongside Carpenter’s direction and Dean Cundey’s photography.
Enter the dossier ↗The Thing
Trace the contributions of Bill Lancaster, Rob Bottin, the performers and the production departments.
Enter the dossier ↗SCORES, RECORDS & PERFORMANCE
Listen beyond the picture
Take a route from film music to new performances, independent albums and the worlds they suggest.
