Shutter is a formal exploration of the phenomenon of the sun eclipsing objects in the natural world. Inspired by footage from a friend and amateur astronomer’s 16mm record of the 1980 total solar eclipse, this work captures the beauty, complexity and terror of the shifting light that precedes and accompanies a solar eclipse. (AM)
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.’ -
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
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
