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# Experimental Film

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## Customer Reviews

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    Better--and more Lovecraftian--than I expected
  

*by B***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2018*

I had been circling Gemma Files Experimental Film for a while before finally picking it up. I’m not sure what stayed my hand, but I think it was something in the synopsis that made me wary. It might be that the synopsis is so darn long. It might be that it puts the emphasis on Lois as a mom, or that it seems to indicate that a large part of the central conflict in the story will be protecting a child, neither of which appeal to me. Whatever the case, I put Experimental Films aside again and again, only to come back to it because there was something intriguing about it that I couldn’t quite quit. I like the idea of haunted film. The ancients thought mirrors were a window to another world. And what is a film but a dim reflection of reality, capturing images of the long dead, presenting worlds unknown and otherwise unknowable? And the film in this book is an old one, very old, locked on silver nitrate film, a medium so flammable that it cost many a life in the early days of the cinema. So what the heck, I thought. Why not give it a shot?I’m certainly glad I did.First of all, it turns out my initial concerns were wholly unfounded. Lois is much more than a mom. Her domestic situation plays a role in the book and is, at times, one of the things that motivates her, but it is largely in the background. Lois is an independent woman pursuing a mystery that is obscure and potentially world-changing all at once. On the trail of a film from the earliest days of movie-making that seems to portray a forgotten Wendish god (obscurity squared you might say), Lois finds herself locked in a struggle of Lovecraftian proportions.Compellingly readable and filled with interesting tidbits about movie culture, this winding tale will keep you on the edge of your seat from the opening title to the final credits. Definitely recommended.P.S. If you enjoyed this book, check out Cigarette Burns, one of my favorite entries from the excellent Masters of Horror series.

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    If you like weird fiction you should enjoy this book
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2018*

Experimental Film takes a while to get going, and, at least for me, requires you to endure a main character that is not that likable. That being said, the underlying story is incredibly well constructed and told.The choice of Lois as the narrator was a canny choice for this uncanny tale. The pattern repetitions in the story are so well thought out and presented. I am fairly certain that this is a book that I will return to in a few years to see how it reads with the knowledge of how it plays out.If the pacing would have been a little tighter in this book I would definitely have given it 5 stars, but it's an incredibly solid 4 star book. If you like weird fiction you should enjoy this book.************** SORTA SPOILERS BELOW **************I just want to say that the last 15 - 20% of this novel is the best version of The King In Yellow that I've read yet. It is so well done and the storytelling is especially sharp and powerful. If you are interested in the KiY then you owe it to yourself to read this book. I can't recommend it enough.

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    Persistence of Vision
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2016*

There is a lot about Gemma Files’s Experimental Film that feels like it was written just for me, and I suppose a good bit of that is due to interests the author and I share with the main character of the novel: Lois Cairns. We’ve all been teachers of film history and screenwriting, and we’ve all wondered whether or not we would ever make our own mark on this field of art and criticism we love so much. That’s more direct connection than I often get with authors and main characters, so I wondered idly more than once whether it was unduly affecting my reaction to Experimental Film.The answer, I think, is no. There is so much to love about Files’s novel, so many layers to peel back, that these chance synchronicities cannot possibly account for my total reaction. If you are fascinated by film history (Canadian or otherwise) and obscure folklore and Edwardian spiritualism and gloriously broken people who you cannot help but root for, there is a lot here for you to devour. Files treats all of these topics seriously and confidently, even though in many ways these elements are (only?) grease for the inner workings of a story that will scour you. The dual engines of this novel are Files’s immense power to evoke and convey the weird and her intimate and clear-eyed ability to present a main character who is the mother of a young son on the autism spectrum. These twin elements are the Scylla and Charybdis of Experimental Film, and at no time did I feel that I was in the hands of anything less than a master of the weird, who was bent on showing me something I have never seen before, something I have never felt.Experimental Film is not brawny. It is not sketched in the muscular, three-color panels of the whiskey-soaked weird. It is grayscale, silver-tinted, with a flickering beam of terror that is sliced with a glittering shutter blade of midday sunlight forty-eight times every second. When you finally hear the end of the reel slapping against the projector, you’ll have to remind yourself to breathe.

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