“You don't think I sat there all evening with an eight-foot mamba in my pocket?”

– Eric Gorman

“What a lucky clown you are! You don't have to wipe off your laugh.”

Gaslights for the first recorded public street lighting powered by gas, demonstrated in Pall Mall, London, on 28 January, 1807. The introduction of gaslight had a major influence on theatre and opera, including the new Paris Opera (1875), which was lit by no less than 960 gas jets. Thanks to the brilliant light, stage actors could tone down their mannerisms and stage makeup.

“Feast your eyes. Glut your soul on my accursed ugliness.”

– The Phantom

However, in the dark dungeons under the Opéra lives a pitiful creature, doomed to dwell in darkness. His makeup, provided by The Man of a Thousand Faces, Lon Chaney, was both grotesque and eerily real .

“I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get?”

– Eddie Jessup

A favourite scene featuring light for Hanukkah and Christmas.

Alan “How long will I live?”

Cesare “Till the break of dawn.”

Pagans for Yule. The reindeer plays an important part in Sámi #animism (1/2).

Mountain living on International Mountain Day. Available to watch via the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste's media archive.

“The mattress is soft and there're hangers in the closet and stationary with “Bates' Motel” printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious.”

– Norman Bates