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- In Search of... Zombies is the third in a series of videos based on the '70s TV show hosted by Leonard Nimoy investigating supernatural and paranormal phenomena. The show was revived in 2010 by the artist Matthew Day Jackson. In Search of... Zombies was filmed in New York and across the American West, from Las Vegas to the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota, in the summer of 2011. The episode focuses on the ubiquitous contemporary figure of the zombie. Zombies are everywhere, or so it seems, and the program tries to figure out why, as well as propose alternate or expanded ways in which we might think about them. The classic zombies are all considered, but so are some less traditional models. Archival footage from a wide array of sources is mixed with contemporary travelogue as the narrator wends his way across the American West. The episode features interviews with ethnobotanist Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow, and artist Adam Helms.
- In Search of... Ghosts is the second in a series of videos based on the '70s TV show hosted by Leonard Nimoy investigating supernatural and paranormal phenomena. The show was revived in 2010 by the artist Matthew Day Jackson. In Search of... Ghosts opens with amateur video footage of an alleged ghost sighting in the National Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio and expands from that perspective to consider the ghost phenomenon in a variety of historical and contemporary contexts. Clips from Laurence Olivier's Hamlet are included in order to illustrate the classic ghost visitation, and the history of ghost hunting is summarized. Ghosts are considered in the context of the Hiroshima bombing and a visit is paid to the Nevada National Security Site, where the Apple II house, built in the 1950s in order to test the effects of a nuclear blast, still stands today, a haunted house for all the world or all the world's haunted houses. The episode features interviews with paranormal investigator Matt Moniz and historian Martin Sherwin.
- As humans, we can't really understand ourselves without seeing ourselves reflected in the environment around us. This episode focuses on anthropomorphism and the age old questions of our existence.