The Uncanny and Folk Horror: Exploring The Witch as a Film Director

‘Yesterday I was in the kingdom of shadows’ Maxim Gorky

Cinema is inherently uncanny. At the beginning of cinema the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, described his experience of witnessing the fabled screening of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat in 1896 as ‘This is not life but the shadow of life and this is not movement but the soundless shadow of movement.’