Certain minerals convert absorbed UV light into visible colours of unearthly beauty. Shown in sacred, cosmic silence. Eigenlicht (intrinsic light) refers to the visual interference the human eye sees in complete darkness. Even without light the optic nerve creates a uniform, grey experience.
Also in this combined programme
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Eidola
Artist Peter Miller used infrared glasses to examine a coil in the camera and wrote his ‘images’ onto it with a laser pen. -
Sakala
This study of the forgotten statue of Sakala, the first African boy to visit Belgium in 1884, critically analyses Western perspectives. -
The Light and the Paper
How empty is a blank page? This film carefully studies the prime precondition for seeing: the presence of light. -
Lightkeeping
Quotes from photographic pioneer William Fox Talbot’s letters accompany black-and-white images that exude timeless calm. -
L’invitation au voyage
A series of beautiful black-and-white photographs marred by yellow Post-its with their notes erased. An unassuming narrator makes them even more myste
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
