Material / Image Research Lab (MIRL)

If you’re in Los Angeles tonight, don’t miss The American Magic Lantern Theater‘s show at the UCLA Hammer Museum, 7pm.  The show, inspired by the Hammer exhibition The Darker Side of Light,  is a “Victorian era Magic-Lantern show, replete with flying ghosts, macabre goblins, and a petrifying rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.  Using original glass slides and a spectacular antique Magic-Lantern, the AMLT re-creates this popular 1890’s combination of projected color images, dramatic storytelling, live music, hilarious comedy, and frightening special effects.”