Pictures of Light

Combined programme | IFFR 2011

Super-8, 16mm and 35mm: these filmmakers all know how to conjure up something special in their chosen medium. All there is, is Light.

Rayning

How pure light can break through black-and-white emulsion and reach the retina. ‘Light rayns-rains-reigns across a dream of tranquility.’
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This Is Not Dying

Colour separation and Ben Tawhiti’s whistling, humming and pedal steel allow Nova Paul’s marae to defy rules of time and space.
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Shutter

Shutter tracks the rising sun, the lengthening shadows and the darkening day of a total solar eclipse.
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Ouverture

Camera improvisation in Cinemascope transforms the meagre light in an old Normandy shed into an abstract kinetic light show.
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Cry When It Happens

Melancholy L.A. How a landscape is coloured by intense desire. You want to hang onto it for as long as possible, but it slips away.
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Garden

Patterns of grasses, trees and flowers meld, accompanied by the rousing music of Japanese experimental jazz band the Samurai Jazz Quintet.
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Ville Marie

The point of view of a person falling from the top of a high-rise building. Shot on Super-8 and beautifully mastered with optical printing techniques.
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In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails

Eclectic hotpot shot in an overheated Brazil. People are oppressed, baby turtles swim out to sea and our culture decays.
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