The book has an almost uncanny image of what was to come: "Somewhere in the Middle East, a half-dozen young men could well be dressed in jeans, drinking Coke, listening to rap, and between their bows to Mecca, putting together a bomb to blow up an American airliner".
Without any will to guide it, the face offered the uncanny image of a man intensely concentrating in a state of sleepy distraction.
That's all it is, but it is this horrific, unsettling, uncanny image, of an entity whose motivations are never disclosed.
As Schiller described this function which, as many members of the online chorus pointed out, seems not only sci-fi-creepy but also a potential nightmare along cybersecurity and law-enforcement lines an uncanny image occupied the screen behind him.
They are less about narrative and more about the power of the uncanny image — the symbol that reverberates but refuses to spill its secrets.
Choreographer John Heginbotham created a series of uncanny images with his company Dance Heginbotham, and Worden sang Jacobsen's setting of Kandinsky's mysterious text -- her own piece for Brooklyn Rider, Disconnect, Delay, Lean and Release, was intriguingly embedded within Jacobsen's work.
A handful of its uncanny images have lingered with Lethem and Rusnak, who have transplanted Gerber and Skrenes's best riffs into what Lethem calls a "serious parody" of old superhero comics — faithfully preserving the elements of the form but drastically mutating their tone.
It's an early talking film, and it displays the cinematic impact of language and of music alongside the powerful and uncanny images that its director — a great but often overlooked stylist — created.
These uncanny images will be repeated again and again, a pattern that the show keeps wheeling back to, solving for the sources of David's anger as if struggling to finish a Rubik's Cube.
With unique, hand-pulled prints created using a variety of printmaking techniques and materials monotype, lithography, intaglio, collagraph, watercolour, and gouache she creates hazy, uncanny images of shapes and blocks of colour that suggest a larger city, its people and structures, contending with their ephemerality.
