First co-presented with NIGHTSTREAM earlier this year, instructor Simon Laperrière returns for a live broadcast of his lecture.
From the Slender Man to Candle Cove, creepypastas have an undeniable influence on pop culture. Internet urban legends and fictions have recently been the object of numerous films, tv series and podcasts. Such phenomenon deserves not an analysis, but an exploration, in order to understand why they fascinate us (and why they keep us in front of our computer late at night). Being one of the first scholars to write about the Slender Man mythology, Simon Laperrière invites you on a journey through those amateur fictions, questioning why their impact is so strong on a sociological point of view. Creepypastas are a new folklore that cannot be ignored, especially when a film like We’re Are All Going to the World’s Fair understands their power so well. Welcome into a world of strange and funny stories. Welcome to the Back Rooms!
Please note these are live events – they cannot be downloaded and watched later, so please be sure you are available at the time and timezone the classes are being offered in before registering. For those with global passes and Los Angeles branch passes, your registration link for the original December lecture will work for this replacement class. We hope to present REGRESSION OBSESSION in 2022.
Simon Laperrière is a writer, scholar and film curator based in Montreal. Currently a PhD Candidate in Film Studies at Université de Montréal, he is a frequent collaborator of different film publications like Hors champ, Panorama-Cinéma, 24 images and Zoom-Out. His most recent book, Series of Dreams: Bob Dylan et le cinéma, was published in 2018 by Rouge profond. (He also tried to finish Evil Within 2, but abandoned the game before the final boss).
