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Video essay that examines the relationship between the 1962 film "Carnival Souls" and Lucrecia Martel's 2008 "The Headless Woman".

Satis House is a multiple screen-based, videographic study. A kind of mini-puzzle film, it discovers or invents a spatio-temporal strategy for an audio-visual collection and juxtaposition of the eight sequences in David Lean’s 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel Great Expectations that depict protagonist Pip’s visits to the shadowy candlelit dwelling of Miss Havisham.

Retiring [in]Transition founding co-editor Catherine Grant reflects on her curation of Laura Mulvey’s remix of a sequence from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) in the opening editorial of our journal’s inaugural issue in 2014. Here she presents a new videographic study of this remix that she made in collaboration with Mulvey herself in 2024.