JUMP SCARE
2023
Single channel video with binaural audio.
8’59
Excerpts of video, stills.
First shown in ‘Ultra Terrestrial’, Elevator Ari, Lismore.
In slasher films, the last character left alive is known as the Final Girl. In American horror, as a general rule, she’s made it through two hours of blood, fear and torture at the hands of an expressionless, sociopathic man.
In Jump Scare, the Final Girl gets her revenge, harnessing the capacities of synched binaural audio and video to create an immersive, theatrical experience drawing on horror cinema’s use of auditory tropes to produce and dispel tension. The work uses foley techniques to produce an unwieldy state of anxiety which comes unhinged from the real, producing an immersive space of humour, effort and haunting.
Recording technicians: David Turner and Nicole Beverley Halford.