This documentation video features the installation of "Ghosts in the Machine: The Inquest of Mary Gallagher" at the Centaur Theatre workshop and rehearsal space in Griffintown, Montreal in June 2011. This exhibiition formed part of the year-long Urban Occupations Urbaines series of art interventions curated by Shauna Janssen. (urbanoccupationsurbaines.org/)

"Ghosts" is a three-channel anamorphic video installation about the murder and partial dismemberment of Mary Gallagher in 1879. Mary Gallagher is also known as the Ghost of Griffintown, who returns every seven years in search of her lost head.

More images of the installation can be found here.
flickr.com/photos/alisonloader/sets/72157626743622831/

Documentation footage & photography by
Alison Reiko Loader & Shauna Janssen

Cast (in alphabetical order)
Deena Aziz
Diana Fajrajsl
Dean Fleming
Alexandria Haber
Tristan D. Lalla
Julie Tamiko Manning

Crew
Shauna Janssen, Curating & Production Management
Micheline Chevrier, Voice Direction
Jason Lee, Cinematography
Lachlan Fletcher, Sound Recording

Equipment and locations suppliers
Centaur Theatre
Concordia University Centre for Digital Arts (CDA)
Concordia University Center for Ethnographic Research & Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV)
Concordia University Department of Communication Studies
Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts Core Technical Centres
Concordia University FOFA Gallery
Concordia University Lab 6.5
Hexagram Concordia

Héritage Montréal
Anna Nixon, Jean-Yves Bourdages