Sunlight enters an old shed in Normandy through cracks and chinks. The camera greedily absorbs the light, does not show what is going on outside but looks inwards instead. The shed’s few square metres turn into a sacred space.
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
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. -
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
- Canada, France
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
