Constellation

Splicing history and silencing the lambs

Created by Maria Lewis

Featured in this constellation

Film splicers

Inglourious Basterds

All About Evil

War and Peace

Manhunter

The Silence of the Lambs

With plastic strips coated with light-sensitive emulsions, film strips captured light and created moving pictures. In this Constellation we trace celluloid and splicing as plot device to serial killers, secrets agents and Super 8.