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Sjæl/Seele/Soul
Simon Dybbroe Møller
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text by Saim Demircan
‘A camera store seems a perfect setting for a horror movie. A working title might be, Invasion of the Camera Robots; it would be based on the Cyclops myth, with the camera clerk as Ulysses. A camera’s eye alludes to many abysses. Each click would expose the clerk and his store to partial annihilation. I leave the ending for readers to figure out.’
– Robert Smithson, Art Through the Camera’s Eye (c. 1971)
Generally regarded as science-fiction, Jordan Peele’s 2022 film, Nope is actually about photography. Up until the finale, the picture’s extraterrestrial – a UFO that is more predatory animal than ship – takes the form of a gigantic, monstrous eye. Its pupil is an orifice through which it consumes people–spectators, screaming as they pass through the eye’s digestive tract: a canal similar to the pleated bellows of a Victorian camera. Towards the end of Nope, the alien shapeshifts into what looks like an 19th-century aperture. The…
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Sjæl/Seele/Soul
Simon Dybbroe Møller
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text by Saim Demircan
‘A camera store seems a perfect setting for a horror movie. A working title might be, Invasion of the Camera Robots; it would be based on the Cyclops myth, with the camera clerk as Ulysses. A camera’s eye alludes to many abysses. Each click would expose the clerk and his store to partial annihilation. I leave the ending for readers to figure out.’
– Robert Smithson, Art Through the Camera’s Eye (c. 1971)
Generally regarded as science-fiction, Jordan Peele’s 2022 film, Nope is actually about photography. Up until the finale, the picture’s extraterrestrial – a UFO that is more predatory animal than ship – takes the form of a gigantic, monstrous eye. Its pupil is an orifice through which it consumes people–spectators, screaming as they pass through the eye’s digestive tract: a canal similar to the pleated bellows of a Victorian camera. Towards the end of Nope, the alien shapeshifts into what looks like an 19th-century aperture. The…
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