Night Haunts – The London Night December 4, 2008 event at Studio X, Columbia University

 

The famed London night: “There was a time, well over a century ago now, when it was considered one the finest Victorian inventions.” Gas lighting opened up the night–rendering the darkness visible, and introducing new spaces of lawlessness and depravity. But have CCTV cameras and British Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) neutralized the night? Writer SUKHDEV SANDHU and composer ANDREW INGKAVET present a visual and sonic journey through an unfamiliar nocturnal London, encountering urban fox hunters, exorcists, cleaning crews, mini-cab drivers, sleep technicians and the Nuns of Tyburn, as they pray for the souls of Londoners.

SANDHU is a professor of English Literature at New York University, Chief Film Critic of the “Daily Telegraph,” and author of “London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City.” INGKAVET is a composer, filmmaker and designer. He began scoring films while working in Hong Kong as one of MTV-Asia’s first VJs. 

RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu
Free and open to the public