"This article explores several key lens-based or screen-mediated installations exhibited at Edmonton’s inaugural Nuit Blanche festival in 2015 in order to engage in a formal reading of audiovisual texts as literal, concrete artworks while simultaneously probing the ways in which they produce powerful affective experiences for their audiences." (From abstract.) Includes discussion of Mieke Bal's thoughts on the moving images and "thinking in film." This framework is applied to explore the impact three works could have on everyday places.