COURSE: Art 448: Digital Imaging Studio
MEDIUM: Video; Music Video
DESCRIPTION:
This short video plays with the idea of the “uncanny,” a concept originally laid out by Sigmund Freud in his eponymous essay of 1919. The German word for uncanny (unheimlich) is, he tells us, the opposite of the familiar or “belong[ing] to the home” (heimlich), and this music video of sorts thinks with this idea in its literal form—a house. We are invited into a doll’s house in which things and people are concealed, and the inanimate and animate switch roles.