Snapshot

Edinburgh 2026

Newly unearthed footage from late 19th-century London reveals the complex fate of an all-ladies ghost-hunting society in this transfixing horror feature debut from director Joseph Archer. Exploring a dangerous city of contradictions with a new technology potentially capable of capturing malevolent supernatural forces, the film throws us into a world of cruelty, violence and press sensationalism, threat always hovering just around the next corner and at the peripheries of the pinhole camera lens. An inventive reimagining of the found footage genre, this uniquely strange, scary and distinctive…

This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Snapshot is by Joseph Archer, listed under Events in the Fringe programme. It is at EIFF @ The Cameo, 38 Home Street, EH3 9LZ, 17 August.

The show is suitable for ages 16+. Tickets are £12. Content warnings: Distressing or triggering themes and Scenes of violence.