How empty is a blank page? This film carefully studies the prime precondition for seeing: the presence of light. Just like a film screening, information from a book reaches us thanks to beams of light reflecting. This brief meditation reminds us that reading is basically a directed form of seeing.
Also in this combined programme
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Eidola
Artist Peter Miller used infrared glasses to examine a coil in the camera and wrote his ‘images’ onto it with a laser pen. -
Sakala
This study of the forgotten statue of Sakala, the first African boy to visit Belgium in 1884, critically analyses Western perspectives. -
Lightkeeping
Quotes from photographic pioneer William Fox Talbot’s letters accompany black-and-white images that exude timeless calm. -
L’invitation au voyage
A series of beautiful black-and-white photographs marred by yellow Post-its with their notes erased. An unassuming narrator makes them even more myste -
Eigenlicht
Certain minerals convert absorbed UV light into visible colours of unearthly beauty. Shown in sacred, cosmic silence.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
