The Weird, The Eerie and The Liminal
For the Extending Design project I decided to type set my essay into a publication. In this essay I explore the effect of weirdness and/or eeriness overlapping with the theme of liminality. I explore this effect through three filmic sources, these being – The Trial (1963) by Orson Welles, Pulse (2001) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Inland Empire (2006) by David Lynch. Throughout this essay I refer to the writing of Mark Fisher who redefined weirdness and eeriness in his essay, The Weird And The Eerie.
I created two versions of the publication, one is a normal book with more subtle representations of the themes and the second copy is a weird, eerie and liminal version, with overt references to the themes. Some examples of how I achieved this include, holes between pages, changing typefaces and missing words.
