Computer Animation Arts

Frances Glessner Lee at work on one of her models Sometimes you encounter of body work that shames you utterly, because you suddenly realise your ignorance of it prior is unforgivable in light of lectures you've given and conversations you've had.   The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death is one such cultural blindspot and I'm sharing it with the excitement that derives from coming across 'the perfect thing!'.  Oh, how some of those back-in-the-day lectures might have been enriched by showing some impressionable young minds these extraordinary, macabre, unheimlich images by photographer, Corinne May Botz !  As the photographer herself explains: "The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" is an exploration of a collection of eighteen miniature crime scene models that were built in the 1940's and 50's by a progressive criminologist Frances Glessner Lee (1878 – 1962). The models, which were based on actual homicides, suicides, and acc...

You're probably in the pub tonight, what with it being Christmas Eve. If so, you would have missed the BBC's adaptation of M.R. James ' classic ghost story, Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You, My Lad . This latest adaptation reframes the original story and gives it a thematic spin not present in the original text - nonetheless, it manages some unnerving moments - and owes a big debt of gratitude to Robert Wise's The Haunting. It's got a wonderful, sustained atmosphere throughout and encompasses a number of tropes associated with your Unit 3 creative project: things to look out for; great use of framing/cropping to create unease; the empty hotel setting; an uncanny bust; wonderful, wonderful lighting, a nasty bit of business with a door, a creepy doll's head, and a disembodied hand... Go here to view on iplayer - turn out the lights, turn up the volume, and enjoy...