In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails
Subtle, spectacular cinema in which cosmopolitan filmmaker Fern Silva creates a convincing, eclectic hotpot from various images. The fruits of life desiccate in front of our very eyes in a civilisation out of step with the rhythm of the cosmos.
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
Rayning
How pure light can break through black-and-white emulsion and reach the retina. ‘Light rayns-rains-reigns across a dream of tranquility.’ -
Shutter
Shutter tracks the rising sun, the lengthening shadows and the darkening day of a total solar eclipse. -
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. -
Garden
Patterns of grasses, trees and flowers meld, accompanied by the rousing music of Japanese experimental jazz band the Samurai Jazz Quintet. -
Ouverture
Camera improvisation in Cinemascope transforms the meagre light in an old Normandy shed into an abstract kinetic light show. -
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.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Brazil, USA
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
