(Aspect)

Content: Across the surface of the forest, light, colour, shadow shift; rhythmic, kaleidoscopic. Matter and the immaterial in constant counteraction. The screen becomes a painting in animation. Ordinarily, light describes the motif. Here, the forest is almost – almost – occluded as the light that delineates the world becomes autonomous, visible; describes itself as subject. There are some very strange effects: light and shadow grow, die back; bark shimmers; branches tremble, or clouds pass above; trees shiver in the cold, or shake in threatening gesture; sunlight flickers, on and off, like an electric bulb. The portrait lives. These films are not the index of space and objects, but a cinema of time, movement, light; flickering lashes of mesmerised eyes in the click of an aperture.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

9 minutes

Year:

2004

Directors:

Emily Richardson

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Production companies:

Film London,

Stour Valley Arts,

Arts Council of England

Actors:

Crews:

Director

Director of Photography

Sound Designer