Notes from Workshop #4 (PDF) “Evaluation of the project and setting the agenda for future research and documentation.” (Exeter, 11-13 January 2018).

Film Hub South West, a blog on the Bristol-based cultural initiative Watershed, reported on A Million Pictures’ workshop #4 in Exeter. Read  Tara Judah’s reflections on the Magic Lantern and her personal account of witnessing lantern shows on the blogs on Watershed.

Three perspectives on our conference form the article in the journal of our Associated Partner at the Magic Lantern Society. Read the article by Richard Crangle, Ine van Dooren and Lydia Jakobs in The Magic Lantern #13 from December 2017 (pages 12-13).

Newsletter #13 – February 2018  

Newsletter #12 – December 2017 (PDF)

The exhibition Light. The magic lantern and digital imaging is still open until end of January at Museu del Cinema in Girona. Local, regional and national press has covered the exhibition or events related to it. El Punt Diari published a full page article about life models. There has been also some on-line international articles…

Nele Wynants from the research team Antwerp has published the essay “Spectral Illusions. Ghostly Presence in Phantasmagoria Shows” in Framing Immersive Theatre and Performance. The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance, edited by James Frieze, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 207-220. For more information, visit the publisher’s website: http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781137366030

Newsletter #11 – October 2017 (PDF)

Jeroen Splinter, intern at A Million Pictures, wrote a piece about his discoveries when working with the lantern slide collections held at the film related collections at EYE Filminstitute, The Netherlands. Jeroen Splinter digitised advertising lantern slides that were shown in cinemas before the film screening started. Often, these slides advertised local bars and restaurants….

Integral part of the A Million Pictures project is the collaboration between researchers, archivists, curators and artists. This DVD documents various forms of artistic engagement with lantern slide heritage that emerged from collaboration between the research teams and artists: animation film, peep show performance, educative film, live video art, art installation, development of an app,…