Peer into a cinema from the past in Seeing In The Dark, a brand new digital installation from “multimedia daredevils” (The Times) imitating the dog.
Inspired by the Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive project based at Lancaster University, funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), Seeing In The Dark invites you to explore how cinema mimics and makes memories, as film projection, time, and the viewing experience collide in this evocative, immersive artwork.
Three simple boxes stand on plinths – yet each offers a unique experience. Take a look through the viewing windows for a heady glimpse of cinema days gone by.
Scale models, whirring film reels, original music compositions, recorded reproductions of heritage films and echoing real voices from the archive all come together as a ‘memory machine’, conjuring into life the whisper of a classic cinema programme projected onto a miniature screen.
A fun homage to captivating moments in cinema history and a moving reflection on the sensation of film-watching, Seeing In The Dark is a special trip to the flicks that you won’t want to miss.
imitating the dog have been making groundbreaking work for theatres and other spaces for more than 20 years. Our work has been seen across the world, and we have made work for outdoor festivals and events, seen by hundreds of thousands of people.
As a company, we are most interested in telling stories. We create beautiful, memorable images for audiences, and the work fuses live performance with digital technology, in order to serve the story in the best possible way. The work is always fresh and often surprising. We take risks.
We make work for touring to mid-scale theatres as well as studio productions. We want to tell stories which are important and which contain important ideas. Sometimes this is an adaptation of a classic novel or a film, and at other times it might be a new story, devised by the company. We also make large-scale sited video mapped projects, but always with a story to tell. In 2018, our piece Arrivals & Departures was part of the opening events for Hull’s year as City of Culture.
