Outputs (6)

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.

One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares (2019)
Book Chapter
Milne, L. S. (2019). One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares. In E. Pocs, J. Kapaló, L. S. Milne, & C. Somerville (Eds.), Charms and Charming: Studies on Magic in Everyday Life (129-167). Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Researchers may focus on charms as evidence about belief-systems in particular regions, periods or demographics; for insights into wider theoretical issues in the anthropology of religion, magic and ritual; or for their intrinsic qualities as poetic... Read More about One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares.

Charlie Chaplin Lived here (UK Premiere) (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L., & Martin, S. Charlie Chaplin Lived here (UK Premiere). [Film]. Exhibited at Exeter Phoenix, Exeter. 2 November 2019. (Unpublished)

UK Premiere of my feature documentary film, organised in association with the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter.

A loving and affectionate tribute exploring Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas and his lifelong obsession with Charlie Cha... Read More about Charlie Chaplin Lived here (UK Premiere).

Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey (2018)
Digital Artefact
Milne, L., & Martin, S. (2018). Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey. [Film]

30 mins

A commission from Criterion film for a special release of Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev

A poetic documentary about the making of Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev, with new interviews, including actor Nikolai Burlyaev and cinematographer Vad... Read More about Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey.

Eidolon (2018)
Digital Artefact
Milne, L. (2018). Eidolon. [Film]

10 mins, experimental Super 8 film

Eidolon: dream image, apparition, phantom, ghost. Three dreams in three voices navigate a garden of forking paths. With texts from Horace, Freud's Wolf Man and an anonymous late 20C dreamer, a film in Super8 and... Read More about Eidolon.

The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams (2017)
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2017). The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams. Incantatio : An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming, 6, 78-116. https://doi.org/10.7592/incantatio2017_6_milne

This article takes a semiotic and structuralist approach to understanding the characteristic nightmare package of imagery, or image-constellation, which appears also in charms, curses and lullabies to do with disturbed sleep. Elements of the nightmar... Read More about The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams.