The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies

Happy Holidays from Miskatonic-Montréal

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Miskatonic – Montréal is closed for the holidays. Thank you all, instructors and students for the great fall semester! Don’t forget to check the winter 2016 curriculum (http://www.miskatonic-montreal.com/…/miskatonic-winter-201…/). Happy holidays and see you in February!

L’institut Miskatonic – Montréal ferme ses portes pour les vacances. Merci à tous, instructeurs(trices) et étudiant(e)s pour les excellents cours de cet automne. N’oubliez pas de jeter un coup d’oeil aux cours de l’hiver 2016 (http://www.miskatonic-montreal.com/…/miskatonic-winter-201…/). Bonnes vacances et on se revoit en février!

Miskatonic’s Annual Holiday Party — Free!

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 23:39:30 +0000

Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue. Dec. 8, 2015
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
Microcinema [ ÊTRE]

Instructor

Admission
Free

Join us for our annual holiday party, where we treat you with refreshments, a ghost story reading, a little TWILIGHT ZONE, and horror-themed trivia, treats and prizes. Admission is free.

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True Crime and Punishment

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:09:23 +0000

Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue. Mar. 29, 2016 - Tue. Apr. 12, 2016
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
Microcinema [ ÊTRE]

Instructor
Karen Herland

Admission
$21 (or $7 per lecture)

True Crime appeals to armchair detectives, voyeurs and conspiracy theorists. Each story offers the tantalizing possibility of resolving a mystery — though, often the most appealing works tend to instead multiply motives by pointing toward clues left uninvestigated. This three-week course will celebrate the genre by exploring how inspectors, authors, lawyers and viewers rely on the power of narrative to confirm their own path to an unreliable truth. Screenings may include: THE JINX (2015), THE THIN BLUE LINE (1988), and IN COLD BLOOD (1967).

SEE DROP-DOWN MENU, ABOVE RIGHT, FOR PAYMENT OPTIONS, OR PAY PER LECTURE. YOU CAN PURCHASE THE ENTIRE WINTER 2016 SEMESTER ONLINE OR AT THE DOOR FOR $60 ($10 SAVINGS).

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Documenting Horror

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:40:18 +0000

Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue. Feb. 2, 2016 - Tue. Mar. 15, 2016
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
Microcinema [ ÊTRE]

Instructor
Annaëlle Winand, Anne Golden, Kristopher Woofter, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Ned Schantz, Papagena Robbins, Shalon Noble

Admission
$49 ($7 per lecture)

This seven-week course kicks off an entire Winter 2016 semester devoted to the horrors of the real. Seven instructors offer their unique scholarly approaches to the varied convergences of horror and documentary cinema. Topics include pseudo-documentary horror, fake found-footage horror, the French cinema of sensation, horror in experimental documentary and the essay film, archival horror, and horror film samples in industrial music. Screenings may include: THE ACT OF KILLING (2014), LEÇONS DES TÉNÈBRES (1999), and THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE (1971).

Week 1: From HAXAN to HELLSTROM and Beyond: The Critical Convergence of Horror and Documentary Cinemas

(Tuesday, 2 February)

Screening: HAXAN: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES (1922, Benjamin Christensen)
Instructor, Kristopher Woofter

Week 2: Caravaggio and Pasolini’s Rome: Sensation, Corporeality, and the Documentary: LEÇONS DES TÉNÈBRES

(Tuesday, 9 February)

Screening: LEÇONS DES TÉNÈBRES (1999, Vincent Dieutre)
Instructor, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare

Week 3: The Monstrous Archive(s): The Redeployment of Horror Cinema by Found Footage Experimental Filmmakers

(Tuesday, 16 February)

Screenings: OUTER SPACE (2009, Peter Tscheserkassky) and other shorts
Instructor, Annaëlle Winand

Week 4: A Body Too Few—Horror Reenactment and THE ACT OF KILLING

(Tuesday, 23 February)

Screening: THE ACT OF KILLING (2014, Joshua Oppenheimer)
Instructor, Ned Schantz

Week 5: Horror Docudrama Cinema Meets the Avant-Garde

(Tuesday, 1 March)

Screening: THE WAR GAME (1965, Peter Watkins)
Instructor, Anne Golden

Week 6: “Jesus Wept”: Sampling, Sympathy, and the Animal in Industrial Music

(Tuesday, 8 March)

Listening will include Skinny Puppy’s VIVIsectVI (1988) and RABIES (1989) and a possible screening
Instructor, Shalon Noble

Week 7: “What if?”: The Metaphysical Horror of the Conditional Tense Documentary

(Tuesday, 15 March)

Screening: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (OPÉRATION LUNE) (2002, William Karel)
Instructor, Papagena Robbins

SEE DROP-DOWN MENU, ABOVE RIGHT, FOR PAYMENT OPTIONS, OR PAY PER LECTURE. YOU CAN PURCHASE THE ENTIRE WINTER 2016 SEMESTER ONLINE OR AT THE DOOR FOR $60 ($10 SAVINGS).

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MISKATONIC, Winter 2016 Curriculum & Registration

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Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue. Feb. 2, 2016 - Tue. Apr. 12, 2016
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
Microcinema [ ÊTRE]

Instructor
Annaëlle Winand, Anne Golden, Karen Herland, Kristopher Woofter, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Ned Schantz, Papagena Robbins, Shalon Noble

Admission
$7 per individual lecture

Documenting Horror – various instructors (7 weeks, Tues. 2 February to Tues. 15 March – $42)

This seven-week course kicks off an entire Winter 2016 semester devoted to the horrors of the real. Seven instructors offer their unique scholarly approaches to the varied convergences of horror and documentary cinema. Topics include pseudo-documentary horror, fake found-footage horror, the French cinema of sensation, horror in experimental documentary and the essay film, archival horror, and horror film samples in industrial music. Screenings may include: THE ACT OF KILLING (2014), LEÇONS DES TÉNÈBRES (1999), and THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE (1971).

Week 1: From HAXAN to HELLSTROM and Beyond: The Critical Convergence of Horror and Documentary Cinemas

(Tuesday, 2 February)

Screening: HAXAN: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES (1922, Benjamin Christensen)
Instructor, Kristopher Woofter

Week 2: Caravaggio and Pasolini’s Rome: Sensation, Corporeality, and the Documentary: LEÇONS DES TÉNÈBRES

(Tuesday, 9 February)

Screening: LEÇONS DES TÉNÈBRES (1999, Vincent Dieutre)
Instructor, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare

Week 3: The Monstrous Archive(s): The Redeployment of Horror Cinema by Found Footage Experimental Filmmakers

(Tuesday, 16 February)

Screenings: OUTER SPACE (2009, Peter Tscheserkassky) and other shorts
Instructor, Annaëlle Winand

Week 4: A Body Too Few—Horror Reenactment and THE ACT OF KILLING

(Tuesday, 23 February)

Screening: THE ACT OF KILLING (2014, Joshua Oppenheimer)
Instructor, Ned Schantz

Week 5: Horror Docudrama Cinema Meets the Avant-Garde

(Tuesday, 1 March)

Screening: THE WAR GAME (1965, Peter Watkins)
Instructor, Anne Golden

Week 6: “Jesus Wept”: Sampling, Sympathy, and the Animal in Industrial Music

(Tuesday, 8 March)

Listening will include Skinny Puppy’s VIVIsectVI (1988) and RABIES (1989) and a possible screening
Instructor, Shalon Noble

Week 7: “What if?”: The Metaphysical Horror of the Conditional Tense Documentary

(Tuesday, 15 March)

Screening: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (OPÉRATION LUNE) (2002, William Karel)
Instructor, Papagena Robbins

Spring Break! (week of Tues. 22 March)

True Crime and Punishment – Karen Herland (3 weeks, Tues. 29 March to Tues. 12 April – $21)

True Crime appeals to armchair detectives, voyeurs and conspiracy theorists. Each story offers the tantalizing possibility of resolving a mystery — though, often the most appealing works tend to instead multiply motives by pointing toward clues left uninvestigated. This class will celebrate the genre by exploring how inspectors, authors, lawyers and viewers rely on the power of narrative to confirm their own path to an unreliable truth. Screenings may include: THE JINX (2015), THE THIN BLUE LINE (1988), and IN COLD BLOOD (1967).

Courses are $7 suggested donation per lecture and can be paid at the door, or via PayPal (see drop-down menu, above right). You can purchase the entire Winter 2016 semester online or at the door for $60 (or $10 off the cost of individual courses).

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“Horror and Art-Dread” by Cynthia Freeland

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Click the file below for “Horror and Art-Dread” by cognitive theorist Cynthia Freeland, the suggested reading for “Daggers of the Mind: Shakespeare’s Occult Influences & Japanese Horror.” [00-Freeland-HorrorArtDread]

Image: Cure Kiyoshi Kurusawa (1997)

Don’t Forget! Tuesday, 10 November is Fall Break

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Tuesday, 10 November is Miskatonic-Montréal’s fall break. Classes resume Tuesday, 17 November with our continued focus on the occult with J. Shea’s course, “DAGGERS OF THE MIND”: SHAKESPEARE’S OCCULT INFLUENCES AND JAPANESE HORROR. We hope to see you then!

Image: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (1963)

Video and Textual Resources for Occult Studies

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Suggested resources (video and text) for our “occult investigators” from instructor Mike Wood:

ASSIGNED READING

Hunt, Leon. “Necromancy in the UK: witchcraft and the occult in British horror.” In British Horror Cinema, edited by Steve Chibnall and Julian Petley, 82-98. London: Routledge, 2002.

“A Very British Witchcraft” (with Ronald Hutton) (2013: Channel 4)

“Masters of Darkness: Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World” (2002: Chanel 4)

“Masters of Darkness: John Dee: Queen Elisabeth’s Magician” (2002: Chanel 4)

“Aleister Crowley: The Other Loch Ness Monster” (2000: BBC Scotland)

“Tony Robinson’s Gods and Monsters: Gods, Demons and Spirits, The Undead, Disease and Witches” (5 episodes) (2011-2012: Channel 4)

“A History of Horror with Mark Gattis: Hammer Films and British Horror” (2010: BBC)

“Ancient Mysteries: Witches” (A & E 1996)

Cavendish, Richard. The Black Arts. New York: Perigree Books, 1967.

Hutton, Ronald. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

King, Francis. The Magical World of Aleister Crowley. London: Arrow Books, 1977.

Sutin, Lawrence. Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000.

Wilson, Colin. The Occult. London: Grafton Books, 1971.

“Necromancy in the UK”: Reading for British Occult Cinema

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:09:45 +0000

Check out this page for a downloadable PDF of the contextualizing reading for Michael Wood’s course on British Occult Cinema.

[Hunt-Witchcraft.OccultInBritishHorror]

Citation:

Hunt, Leon. (2002) “Necromancy in the UK: Witchcraft and the Occult in British Horror.” BRITISH HORROR CINEMA. Ed. Steve Chibnall and Julian Petley. London and New York: Routledge. 82-98.

Mondo Realism / Joe D’Amato Class #3: ANTHROPOPHAGUS (1980)

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 21:20:58 +0000

For the third class of “Mondo Realism and the Cinema of Joe D’Amato,” we’ll be screening one of the notorious “video nasties”: ANTHROPOPHAGUS. Join us!

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies

Happy Holidays from Miskatonic-Montréal

Miskatonic – Montréal is closed for the holidays. Thank you all, instructors and students for the great fall semester! Don’t forget to check the winter 2016 curriculum (http://www.miskatonic-montreal.com/…/miskatonic-winter-201…/). Happy holidays and see you in February!

Miskatonic’s Annual Holiday Party — Free!

Join us for our annual holiday party, where we treat you with refreshments, a ghost story reading, a little TWILIGHT ZONE, and horror-themed trivia, treats and prizes. Admission is free.

True Crime and Punishment

SEE DROP-DOWN MENU, ABOVE RIGHT, FOR PAYMENT OPTIONS, OR PAY PER LECTURE. YOU CAN PURCHASE THE ENTIRE WINTER 2016 SEMESTER ONLINE OR AT THE DOOR FOR $60 ($10 SAVINGS).

Documenting Horror

Week 1: From HAXAN to HELLSTROM and Beyond: The Critical Convergence of Horror and Documentary Cinemas

Week 2: Caravaggio and Pasolini’s Rome: Sensation, Corporeality, and the Documentary: LEÇONS DES TÉNÈBRES

Week 3: The Monstrous Archive(s): The Redeployment of Horror Cinema by Found Footage Experimental Filmmakers

Week 4: A Body Too Few—Horror Reenactment and THE ACT OF KILLING

Week 5: Horror Docudrama Cinema Meets the Avant-Garde

Week 6: “Jesus Wept”: Sampling, Sympathy, and the Animal in Industrial Music

Week 7: “What if?”: The Metaphysical Horror of the Conditional Tense Documentary

MISKATONIC, Winter 2016 Curriculum & Registration

Documenting Horror – various instructors (7 weeks, Tues. 2 February to Tues. 15 March – $42)

Week 1: From HAXAN to HELLSTROM and Beyond: The Critical Convergence of Horror and Documentary Cinemas

Week 2: Caravaggio and Pasolini’s Rome: Sensation, Corporeality, and the Documentary: LEÇONS DES TÉNÈBRES

Week 3: The Monstrous Archive(s): The Redeployment of Horror Cinema by Found Footage Experimental Filmmakers

Week 4: A Body Too Few—Horror Reenactment and THE ACT OF KILLING

Week 5: Horror Docudrama Cinema Meets the Avant-Garde

Week 6: “Jesus Wept”: Sampling, Sympathy, and the Animal in Industrial Music

Week 7: “What if?”: The Metaphysical Horror of the Conditional Tense Documentary

Spring Break! (week of Tues. 22 March)

True Crime and Punishment – Karen Herland (3 weeks, Tues. 29 March to Tues. 12 April – $21)

Courses are $7 suggested donation per lecture and can be paid at the door, or via PayPal (see drop-down menu, above right). You can purchase the entire Winter 2016 semester online or at the door for $60 (or $10 off the cost of individual courses).

“Horror and Art-Dread” by Cynthia Freeland

Click the file below for “Horror and Art-Dread” by cognitive theorist Cynthia Freeland, the suggested reading for “Daggers of the Mind: Shakespeare’s Occult Influences & Japanese Horror.” [00-Freeland-HorrorArtDread]

Don’t Forget! Tuesday, 10 November is Fall Break

Tuesday, 10 November is Miskatonic-Montréal’s fall break. Classes resume Tuesday, 17 November with our continued focus on the occult with J. Shea’s course, “DAGGERS OF THE MIND”: SHAKESPEARE’S OCCULT INFLUENCES AND JAPANESE HORROR. We hope to see you then!

Video and Textual Resources for Occult Studies

Suggested resources (video and text) for our “occult investigators” from instructor Mike Wood:

ASSIGNED READING

Hunt, Leon. “Necromancy in the UK: witchcraft and the occult in British horror.” In British Horror Cinema, edited by Steve Chibnall and Julian Petley, 82-98. London: Routledge, 2002.

SUGGESTED DOCUMENTARIES (Click the titles for links to videos.)

“A Very British Witchcraft” (with Ronald Hutton) (2013: Channel 4)

“Masters of Darkness: Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World” (2002: Chanel 4)

“Masters of Darkness: John Dee: Queen Elisabeth’s Magician” (2002: Chanel 4)

“Aleister Crowley: The Other Loch Ness Monster” (2000: BBC Scotland)

“Tony Robinson’s Gods and Monsters: Gods, Demons and Spirits, The Undead, Disease and Witches” (5 episodes) (2011-2012: Channel 4)

“A History of Horror with Mark Gattis: Hammer Films and British Horror” (2010: BBC)

“Ancient Mysteries: Witches” (A & E 1996)

FURTHER READINGS

Cavendish, Richard. The Black Arts. New York: Perigree Books, 1967.

Hutton, Ronald. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

King, Francis. The Magical World of Aleister Crowley. London: Arrow Books, 1977.

Sutin, Lawrence. Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000.

Wilson, Colin. The Occult. London: Grafton Books, 1971.

“Necromancy in the UK”: Reading for British Occult Cinema

Check out this page for a downloadable PDF of the contextualizing reading for Michael Wood’s course on British Occult Cinema.

Citation:

Mondo Realism / Joe D’Amato Class #3: ANTHROPOPHAGUS (1980)

For the third class of “Mondo Realism and the Cinema of Joe D’Amato,” we’ll be screening one of the notorious “video nasties”: ANTHROPOPHAGUS. Join us!