Completion 2019, part-time study while Senior Lecturer

The practice-based study explores how filmmaking, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and neuroscience might interact to generate an expanded understanding of the uncanny and the related concept of hauntology. The research is manifest and undertaken in three films. Scanner follows a scientific study that explores the neurological underpinning of the uncanny through an fMRI brain scan study, Unhomely Street explores intuitive method and reveals unconscious aspects of the creative process, and Psychotel, a ‘thesis’ film, is informed by psychoanalytic accounts of the uncanny, philosophical, and neuroscientific descriptions of selfhood.