Charlotte Pryce explores proto-cinematic structures of reverie, juxtaposing the real and the imagined to create deeply saturated, fleeting illuminations that hover on the periphery of vision. Curious Light is an entirely hand-processed illumination, an elusive story revisited.
Also in this combined programme
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Reflect
Intimate recordings in the personal surroundings of the maker. By re-ordering individual shots, hidden meanings emerge. -
Deep Red
The unreal colours and patterns in Deep Red are reminiscent of trees seen flashing past in the night from the back seat of a car. -
Never a Foot Too Far, Even
A piece of film of a figure on a wooded path constitutes the start of an exuberant evocation of movement and sound in layered 16mm… -
Caridea and Ichthyes
Caridea: shrimp. Ichtyes: fish. Underwater, even though their habitat looks like an intangible atmosphere of energy. Filmed and projected in Super-8. -
Compound Eyes
A spider, a snail, a fly. Writhing forest inhabitants crawl through the undergrowth. Filmed and projected in Super-8. -
Sea Series #10
Reflection on the Fukushima disaster made using aged film material, shot on the other side of the Pacific in glorious CinemaScope. -
99 Clerkenwell Road
Emptiness is wistfully transformed in 99 Clerkenwell Road as the remnants of an empty shop provide the makings of an abstract light-film cum toy-solar
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
