Still Light is an homage to New Zealand poet, filmmaker and photographer Joanna Margaret Paul. Her own cinematic poems could be viewed as homely portraits: calm, meditative studies of the intimate human environment. Still Light has the same radical simplicity. Fresh, sweet film poem with a beautiful lemon.
Also in this combined programme
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Remembering the Pentagons
Sensual, lyrical depiction of the filmmaker’s earliest memories of the overwhelming smells and colours of Iran. -
An Old Dog’s Diary
An Old Dog’s Diary assembles, in puzzle-piece evocations, a portrait of Indian avant-garde painter Francis Newton Souza, revealing the cultural condit -
Vivir para vivir
The Californian desert, an ECG and sine waves: Live to Live uses bodily processes ranging from heartbeats to orgasms to create structure. -
Half Human, Half Vapor
Outsider artist Vandercar sculpted in his garden. Rumour has it that he was also adept at telepathy. After his death the spirits still seem present. -
A Distant Episode
A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, shot behind the scenes of a film being made on the other-worldly beaches of Morocco in silvery black-and-w
Film details
- Country of production
- New Zealand
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- File
