Prof Louise Milne's Outputs (56)

Hypnos (San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival) (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L. (2020). Hypnos (San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival). [Video]. 1 July 2025

Official selection (semi-finalist) for San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival 2025.

An Ancient Egyptian poem, driving through a storm, radio, memory and the otherworld. A dream film on Super8 and HD.

Dream in the Mirror (Chicago Filmmaker Awards) (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L., & Martin, S. (2021). Dream in the Mirror (Chicago Filmmaker Awards). [Digital video]. 22 May 2025

The Dream in the Mirror is a documentary commissioned by Criterion, NYC for their new Blue-Ray /streaming restored edition of Tarkovsky's Mirror (1975). It is an official selection (semi-finalist) at the Chicago Filmmaker Awards 2025.

Hypnos (Kyoto Independent Film Festival) (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L. (2020). Hypnos (Kyoto Independent Film Festival). [Video]. 31 March 2025

Official selection (semi-finalist) at Kyoto Independent Film Festival 2025.

An Ancient Egyptian poem, driving through a storm, radio, memory and the otherworld. A dream film on Super8 and HD.

Animal-selves in Inuit Dream-cultures (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2021, November). Animal-selves in Inuit Dream-cultures. Paper presented at Humans and Animals: Paradoxes of Mutual Relationships, Online/St Petersburg, Russia

Arctic shamanism can be regarded as a specialised dream-culture, providing a framework wherein certain individuals could gain mastery by internalising the collective mythological system and aligning that with their own capacity to dream. The forms of... Read More about Animal-selves in Inuit Dream-cultures.

Screening and Discussion -- All Static & Noise (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L. (2023). Screening and Discussion -- All Static & Noise. [Feature film]. 3 November 2024 - 3 November 2024

Organiser and Q&A co-host with James Mavor: screening of David Novack’s All Static & Noise, Edinburgh Napier University, in conjunction with 21 charities and organisations including Amnesty International.

When Uyghurs and Kazakhs are arbitrarily d... Read More about Screening and Discussion -- All Static & Noise.

Dream-imagery and the Supernatural, 1560-1900 (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2024, October). Dream-imagery and the Supernatural, 1560-1900. Paper presented at TiTaRa: Between Science and Magic Symposium, University of Turku, Finland

In the 16C, artists developed a visual language for representing dream-imagery as monstrous shifting forms, and this set of stylistics became reified and used as a shorthand for bad dreams into the 19C. At the same time, the even older idea of the ni... Read More about Dream-imagery and the Supernatural, 1560-1900.

Figuration and Temporality in the Entangled Prehistories of Myth and Dreams (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2024, August). Figuration and Temporality in the Entangled Prehistories of Myth and Dreams. Paper presented at 17th Annual International Association for Comparative Mythology (IACM) conference (The Origins of Mythology), Kokugakuin University, Tokyo

The strongest Paleolithic evidence for the existence of mythological discourse – as a product of both language and (visual) figuration – is the strange imagery present in a small fraction of Paleolithic figurative art: depictions of hybrid or “imposs... Read More about Figuration and Temporality in the Entangled Prehistories of Myth and Dreams.

Hypnos (Rotterdam Independent Film Festival) (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L. (2024). Hypnos (Rotterdam Independent Film Festival). 1 August 2024

Official selection (semi-finalist) for Rotterdam Independent Film Festival 2024.

An Ancient Egyptian poem, driving through a storm, radio, memory and the otherworld. A dream film on Super8 and HD.

The Industrialisation of the Nightmare in Modernity (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2024, June). The Industrialisation of the Nightmare in Modernity. Paper presented at 19th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research: Folk Narratives in the Changing World, Riga, Latvia

In the first decades of the 20th century, patients admitted to asylums produced visual and verbal accounts of bad dreams unlike any previously recorded. These representations and narrative include traditional folkloric elements (witches, mermaids, mo... Read More about The Industrialisation of the Nightmare in Modernity.

Terrors of the Night: Essays on Art, Myth and Dreams (2024)
Book
Milne, L. (2024). Terrors of the Night: Essays on Art, Myth and Dreams. Atramentous Press

This volume presents essays on the history of dreams and nightmares, in particular focusing on how these have been visualised; and how and why these visualizations change. Using the concept of dream-culture, the book explores dreams of fear and joy t... Read More about Terrors of the Night: Essays on Art, Myth and Dreams.

Visual Figuration and the Otherworld (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2024, April). Visual Figuration and the Otherworld. Presented at Traditional Cosmology Society 40th Anniversary Conference (As Above, So Below: Explorations in Myth and Ritual Throughout the World), University of Edinburgh

Staging the Modern Nightmare (2024)
Book Chapter
Milne, L. (in press). Staging the Modern Nightmare. In F. Clemente, & G. Colombani (Eds.), Nightmares in the Long Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan

Hypnos (Tokyo Shorts) (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L. (2020). Hypnos (Tokyo Shorts). [Video]. 1 December 2023

Official selection (semi-finalist) for Tokyo Shorts Film Festival 2023.

An Ancient Egyptian poem, driving through a storm, radio, memory and the otherworld. A dream film on Super8 and HD.

War in Heaven: Representing the Rebel Angels in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Thought (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2023, August). War in Heaven: Representing the Rebel Angels in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Thought. Paper presented at 16th Annual IACM Conference (Mythologies of Violence: War in Heaven, War on Earth), Tulsk, Ireland

The Last Dream: Tarkovsky and The Sacrifice (2023)
Digital Artefact
(2023). The Last Dream: Tarkovsky and The Sacrifice. [Video]

A documentary film about the last years of the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-86), in which he defected to the West (1984), and made his final film, The Sacrifice (1986) in Sweden. During this time, Tarkovsky was also campaigning to get his... Read More about The Last Dream: Tarkovsky and The Sacrifice.

World premiere of The Last Dream: Tarkovsky and the Sacrifice (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L. World premiere of The Last Dream: Tarkovsky and the Sacrifice. [Film]. Exhibited at Maine International Film Festival. 7 July 2023 - 16 July 2023

World premiere of The Last Dream: Tarkovsky and the Sacrifice.

Desire, Shapeshifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World (2023)
Book Chapter
Milne, L. (in press). Desire, Shapeshifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World. In J. Starý, J. A. Kozák, Z. Stankovitsova, & M. Novotná (Eds.), Hybrids and Metamorphoses in Old Norse Mythology. Finnish Literature Society

Shape-shifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2022, November). Shape-shifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World. Presented at Hybrids and Metamorphoses: The Aarhus Old Norse Mythology Conference, Prague, Czech Republic

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Staging the Modern Nightmare (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2022, May). Staging the Modern Nightmare. Presented at Nightmare/s in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge

The Dream in the Mirror (2021)
Digital Artefact
Martin, S., & Milne, L. (2021). The Dream in the Mirror. [Digital Video]

The Dream in the Mirror is a documentary commissioned by Criterion, NYC for their new Blue-Ray /streaming restored edition of Tarkovsky's Mirror (1975).