This short horror film investigates how a camera’s modal qualities shape the experience of horror. Shot on an older, lower-quality camera, the film deliberately withholds the narrative justification that found footage films typically provide — leaving the visual degradation unexplained, the ghost’s relationship to the camera ambiguous. The texture of the image itself becomes the source of unease. Drawing on a tradition of films that embrace camera reality — The Blair Witch Project, REC, Paranormal Activity — the work asks its audience to question the nature of what they are watching, and how the camera’s capacity to distort reality deepens immersion in horror.
Jai Snodgrass explores how cameras' modal qualities can intensify a horror experience — how an image from a camcorder brings associations of family and home video into a cinematic context, or how distortions can change the power of an edit. He finds horror's branching into found footage a particularly charming facet of cinema.
