Siouxzi Mernagh

Disappear Here

Adventures in Subconscious Narrative Filmmaking
This contribution consists of an explanatory introduction and extracts from recent fiction works, ‘White Tales’ (novel) and ‘Peep Show’ (novel in progress). Both fiction works explore the spiralling tensions between intensity and excess, desire and jouissance, via the structure and methodology pioneered in the author’s previous work with ‘subconscious narrative’ film. The result of this prior work was the 18-minute subconscious narrative film ‘The Dangers’, which explores an experimental narrative structure and is fascinated by the creation and sustenance of suspense, particularly when created with the notion of the uncanny in mind.
Keywords: fiction; film; suspense; uncanncy
Title
Disappear Here
Subtitle
Adventures in Subconscious Narrative Filmmaking
Author(s)
Siouxzi Mernagh
Identifier
Description
This contribution consists of an explanatory introduction and extracts from recent fiction works, ‘White Tales’ (novel) and ‘Peep Show’ (novel in progress). Both fiction works explore the spiralling tensions between intensity and excess, desire and jouissance, via the structure and methodology pioneered in the author’s previous work with ‘subconscious narrative’ film. The result of this prior work was the 18-minute subconscious narrative film ‘The Dangers’, which explores an experimental narrative structure and is fascinated by the creation and sustenance of suspense, particularly when created with the notion of the uncanny in mind.
Is Part Of
Place
Vienna
Publisher
Turia + Kant
Date
2010
Subject
fiction
film
suspense
uncanncy
Rights
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Bibliographic Citation
Siouxzi Mernagh, ‘Disappear Here: Adventures in Subconscious Narrative Filmmaking’, in Tension/​Spannung, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 1 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2010), pp. 133–53 <https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-01_08>
Language
en-GB
page start
133
page end
153
Source
Tension/​Spannung, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 1 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2010), pp. 133–53
Format
application/pdf
Cite as: Siouxzi Mernagh, ‘Disappear Here: Adventures in Subconscious Narrative Filmmaking’, in Tension/​Spannung, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 1 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2010), pp. 133–53 <https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-01_08>