Magical History Tour: Shadows, ghosts and doppelgängers

The ephemeral, eerie and uncanny nature of film finds its coherent but equally unstable shape in the fleeting form of shadows, ghosts and doppelgängers. Ghosts of history, cultures and myths, shadows – from those that are cut out of paper to those created by moonlight – the protagonists’ dark sides that are often brought to light by the figure of the doppelgänger, all foretell the uncanny, the strange, and indeed the shudder, as the original principle of cinema. This month’s Magical History Tour invites viewers to 11 different encounters in the dark cinema with restless ghosts, illusionary shadows and doppelgängers unleashed.