Single channel video (16 minutes, looped) Computer, desk, chair and headphones
This film was commissioned by Durham University for the exhibition, Time Machines: the past, the future, and how stories take us there (2017).
Darkness Still takes its title from essay The Rediscovery of the Unique in which H.G. Wells describes the limits of mankind’s scientific achievements to answering the questions of the cosmos. The film explores human curiosity and the desire to make sense of the chaos around us but looking for patterns and forming narratives from the fragments of information we can grasp. The viewer is invited to see through the eyes of an unknown navigator as they explore the internet and edit a series of wiki pages, viewing content and listening to a series of texts that have been gathered from a wide range of sources from H.P Lovecraft to Carl Jung.
