Reference material

Exterior shot of The Lake Pub from The Returned (Les Revenants).

Fabrice Gobert is both writer and director of the French television series, The Returned. To create the eerie music so intrinsic to the mood of the episodes, he offered Dominic Aitchison from Mogwai some direction. He listed films that had music he liked, and also shared photos by the American photographer Gregory Crewdson. The influence of Crewdson's vision is striking.

Photos below, by Gregory Crewdson

A Maira timeline

Maira Kalman. I've loved her work since seeing it for the first time in 1989 

(Stay Up Late).    24 years and counting, that love is officially a part of me.

Gaga

Creepy.

Wall of Death

Since the early 1900s, the Wall of Death or Well of Death attracted daredevil motorcyclists and stunt drivers, who performed centrifugal feats in carnival shows, motordromes and amusement parks.

The King Down Under

Before the stardom, the army, the goofy movies, the entourage, the spangled suits, the karate moves and Las Vegas, there was an ambitious young singer from Memphis, Tennessee. 

Elvis at 21, an exhibition of photographs by Alfred Wertheimer

at the National Portrait Gallery in Australia

until March 10, 2014

The Returned

What makes a human, human?

With that in mind, what makes a zombie, zombie?

Victor, you're creeping me out!

The Returned can be seen on the Sundance Channel

or purchased by episode on Amazon.

Victor loves to draw, play on the trampoline and hold hands when he walks.

Like other young children, he is shy around strangers and is afraid of the dark.

He is handsome, yet unnnerving. 

Maybe because he is dead, having died some 35 years ago.

The French series The Returned offers a new and disturbing version of

the dead returning to inhabit the world of the living.

I love fast zombies.

I love slow zombies.

And now, a new love: zombies that talk, make themselves sandwiches, crack jokes

and get into fist fights. They seem just the way we remember them before they passed away.

Only different.