interview with Director Ian Tuason, and how caring for his aging parents inspired Undertone.
Director Ian Tuason
Makes me thing also in the idea of haunting as a good positive way. I was raise catholoic, specially from my mom. I had to go to church school to “be accepted” so in a way the idea of haunting, of exploring the unkwnowns were always outside of the allow to do, which mades me more curiosity to explore these things.
So i was thinking how something gaunting can be puts into a positive spin, or i guess not so from fear but more from curiosity on those phenomelogy of haunting.
"What haunts the digital cul-de-sacs of the twenty-first century is not so much the past as all the lost futures that the twentieth century taught us to anticipate." Mark Fisher on "What is Hauntology?"
He reframed haunting not as something sinister but as a form of mourning for possibilities. In other words, versions of the future that almost happened, versions of yourself that almost were.
This took me into hauntology, concept introduced in Spectres of Marx, 1993 by Jacques Derrida.
Okay, a rabbit hole here. So the word “hauntology” is a portmanteau of “haunting” and “ontology” (the philosophical study of being). While ontology asks what is, hauntology asks about what is no longer, what is not yet, what may never be.
Similar vibes with liminal spaces I feel
to explore:
- anima, a Jungian concept