Friday Late Who's Afraid of the Dark events

Installation: Ghost Machine
Cast Courts
18.30-00.00
Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware from Illustrious Company/Future Of Sound created a three-dimensional visitation which inhabits the Cast Court for one night only.

Storytelling in the National Art Library
19.00, 20.00, 21.00, 22.00 and 23.00
Sally Pomme Clayton brought to life the strange and spooky tales that fell from the library shelves and Tuup told stories of ghouls and ghosts that set you hair on end.

Workshop: Play dead
Grand entrance
18.30-00.00
People took home a photograph of their own corpse!
 
Workshop: UK Society of Paranormal Investigation workshops
The UKSPI investigated the paranormal, spiritualism using various techniques.

Talk: Say cheese
Assistant Curator Charlotte Holmes discussed Victorian photography of spirits and ghosts

Talk: Tortured Souls and Ghostly Presence
Curator Sonia Solicari explored the paintings collection.

Tour: Deaths, ghosts and apparitions at the V&A
The ghost of the Grand Stairs, Clinch's hole and where past directors' canine friends were buried were included in the tour.

Tarot readings
Norfolk House Music Room
19.00-23.30 (readings last approx 10 mins)
Tarot reader James Warlock drew wisdom and information from your unconscious to give a snap-shot of what's happening in your life right now.

Performance: An Irregular Haunt
Sculpture, Room 21a
20.15 & 22.15 (duration approx 15 mins)
Artist Rosie Cooper's condensed tour illustrated her spirit tales

Reading: Memoirs of an exorcist
Poyntor Room
20.30, 21.00 & 21.30 (duration approx 15 mins)
David Devereux, Senior Field Officer for the paranormal protection and consulting agency Athanor, told  stories from his work in expelling malevolent spirits and other psychic entities, and cleansing houses of violent poltergeist activity. 

Film screenings: Halloween Short Film Festival presents Late Night Horror
Raphael, Room 48a
18.30 & 19.30 (duration 52 mins)
The best of the Halloween Short Film Festival. 

'Cry' (Steven Sheil, 8 min)
The final reel of a lost horror film

'The Eel' (Dominic Hailstone, 6 min)
Something stirs in the fish tank. Be prepared..

'Monsters' (Robert Morgan, 12 min)
An evil older sister and her over imaginative younger brother's imagination runs wild!

'The Separation' (Robert Morgan, 9 min)
Two Siamese twins decide to make the split.

'Shame' (Tom Geens, 4 min)
A short and sweet story of a girl with very big hands!

'The Man in the Lower Left Hand Corner of the Photograph' (Robert Morgan, 13 min)
Robert Morgan's graduation model animation from Surrey College of Art & Design.
A lonely old man spies on his female neighbour

The next Halloween Short Film Festival (London Short Film Festival) will  be in edition in January 2008. www.shortfilms.org.uk /  www.myspace.com/halloweenshortfilmfestival3

Film screening: Nosferatu (Certificate 12)
Raphael, Room 48a
20.30 (duration 94 mins)
The earliest surviving screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula was shown, the film and original score together for the first time in 85 years.
Courtesy of Eureka Entertainment

Film screening: Shadow of the Vampire (Certificate 15)
Raphael, Room 48a
22.15 (duration 92 mins)
Max Schreck's performance in the classic film Nosferatu has become legendary. What if the reason he was so good is that he really was a vampire? Director F.W. Murnau created the perfect vampire film by casting a member of the undead to play the title role. But when Schreck starts taking more and more advantage of the opportunities to feed can Murnau come to his senses and destroy him?
Courtesy of Metrodome Group Plc

Interactives: Sound machines
The atmosphere was thick with fear and clichéd horror film sound effects with Friday Late Who's Afraid of the Dark's wind and rain machines. Wind machine and rain machine was designed by Alex Hawkey and made by Kevin Faithfull and Alex Hawkey.
With special thanks to V&A Theatre Collections

DJ set with the Broken Hearts
Grand Entrance
18.30-22.00
'Showgirl DJ duo The Broken Hearts, recently described by The Independent as "a Hollywood musical on hallucinogenics, played their eclectic mix of 1920s oddities, 40s and 50s swing, classic rock 'n' roll and 60s girl group pop. Their debut single, Black Cat/Blanco - a collaboration with musician NJ Whitey - is out soon on Mute Irregulars. Described as 'music from a 50s B movie' its macabre imagery and spooky feel make it the perfect soundtrack for Halloween.'

DJ set with Puss & Mew
Café
18.30-22.00
and
Grand Entrance
22.00-00.00
Friday Late DJs Annie Davey and Johann Sebastian Barnett, and Luis Carvajal (Care in the Community AV), played an eclectic library of songs and sounds with a seasonal weird, groovy and spectral edge.

Performance: The Flash Monkey present Burlesque Bazaar
Raphael, Room 48a
00.00
Celebrate the witching hour with Friday Late Who's Afraid of the Dark's exciting finale courtesy of The Flash Monkey (www.flashmonkey.biz)  A passenger from the last westbound tube saw a train pull into South Kensington in December 1928. An ear-piercing whistle broke through the night and the passenger spotted a ghostly figure in a reefer jacket and peaked cap hanging from the side of the engine. Both the man and the train then vanished into the tunnel never to be seen again.

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