Oh Dreamland 

This video was made by combining photographs I shot in Coney Island, New York and Dreamland, Margate with footage taken from the 1962 film Carnival of Souls. It addresses the subject of the different definitions that exist for real time and film time, and the haunted feeling of abandoned fairs in combination with the idea that film and photography contain ghosts of their own in the way the mediums are created out of life and held in time. I wanted to create a video work with its own sense of time and logic that seduces the viewer as if it were a dream. The combination of photographs and slowed down moving images creates an uncertainty about the assumptions we might have about time-based images. The split screen references cctv footage and might suggest an approaching danger of some kind which emphasizes the haunting quality of the footage that was used.