Spectregraph is based upon the idea of the coexistence of multiple histories and subjective experiences within the same space. Using the chase scene in Buster Keaton’s The Haunted House (public domain) as the source of the footage, all of the activities filmed in the center stairwell of the 1921 movie have been used.  The film depicts Buster as a hapless bank clerk, his sweetheart, a group of crooks dressed as ghosts, cops and a theatre troupe including a devil. All the action is overlaid so it happens simultaneously.  Through layering, colour inversion and elongating the sequence back to the original duration, the ghosts of cinema past all hover in a transitory state of existence and what was comedy becomes haunting.

Also available as a looping installation