Experimental Film eBook

Fired at almost the same time as her son Clarks Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis, former film critic turned teacher Lois Cairns is caught in a depressive downward spiral, convinced shes a failure whos spent half her adult life writing about other peoples dreams without ever seeing any of her own come true. One night Lois attends a program of experimental film and emerges convinced shes seen something no one else hasa sampled piece of silver nitrate silent film footage whose existence might prove that an eccentric early 20th-century socialite who disappeared under mysterious circumstances was also one of Canadas first female movie-makers. Though it raises her spirits and revitalizes her creatively, Loiss headlong quest to discover the truth about Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb almost immediately begins to send her much further than she ever wanted to go, revealing increasingly troubling links between her subjects life and her own. Slowly but surely, the malign influence of Mrs Whitcombs muse begins to creep into every aspect of Loiss life, even placing her son in danger. But how can one increasingly ill and unstable woman possibly hope to defeat a threat thats half long-lost folklore, half cinematically framed hallucinationan existential nightmare made physical, projected off the screen and into real life?