Hitchcock found a vast variety of ways to use floor and table lamps within a scene. They blind, trap, suggest, signal, and mark for murder. In a couple of films, lamps even follow people around like puppies. But Hitchcock almost always saved one lamp to mark the place where Love meets Murder. In this talk, Daly focuses on the lamps that illuminate Rear Window—and help Jeff see Lisa for who she really is.

Christopher Daly is an actor and producer based in Phoenix, Arizona. An interdisciplinary artist, he often creates intersections where dance meets theatre and movement meets image. He’s participated in several interdisciplinary world premieres, including James Dickey’s Puella, and co-founded several performance groups, including: Improv: local 201; The Movement Consort; and Aurora Mime Theatre. Chris spent ten years teaching creative drama in schools as an artist in education through the Arizona Commission on the Arts before his five-year career creating and presenting interactive educational television via satellite.

Outside the studio, he produced educational television shoots in the Grand Canyon and the Amazon jungle. More recently he has produced interactive internal training programs for corporate clients. A voiceover artist, Chris has provided the voice in online programs for a long list of clients, including Coke, Pepsi, Disney Vacations, and Pfizer, and is the longtime voice for Titleist golfballs.