Dissolve from The Shining (1980)

A highly unusual—and oddly shamanic—reading of The Shining has been receiving a surprising amount of online attention of late. Its author, MSTRMND’s Kevin McLeod, offers a serialized guide to the Stanley Kubrick classic, blending film narrative, phenomenology, cosmology, and brain-science to explain the film as an incarnation of Meso-American visual cognition. His concept of glyphic continuum is unexplained, but, according to McLeod, “can be understood if researched,” and viewed side-by-side with the film.

Click here to the essay on MSTRMND. If you can get past the cryptic quality of the writing, you might agree that McLeod is on to something.