TRAVELING LIGHT
“Ten properties of a subject, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.”
- Robert Bresson
“They began very promptly—these tender, fluttering sensations; they began with the sight of the beautiful English landscape, whose dark richness was quickened and brightened by the season; with the carpeted fields and flowering hedge-rows, as she looked at them from the window of the train; with the spires of the rural churches, peeping above the rook-haunted tree-tops; with the oak-studded parks, the ancient homes, the cloudy light…”
- from Henry James’ “An International Episode”
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An Amtrak train pulls out of Penn Station in New York City on a cold, sunny February morning. The train moves forward as the landscape changes—the East Coast giving way to the Midwest. Passengers fill their roles, the snow begins to fall and the next train station is announced, all while the light continues shifting, bouncing, swelling and slouching into eventual darkness.
made with Meerkat Media and the Goddamn Cobras
58 minutes, 2011
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press:
A Pala de Walsh / Sabrina D. Marques
The L Magazine (interview)
Some Came Running / Glenn Kenny
Moving Image Source (scroll towards end, under B. Kite)
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please email to request a screener
TRAVELING LIGHT
“Ten properties of a subject, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.”
- Robert Bresson
“They began very promptly—these tender, fluttering sensations; they began with the sight of the beautiful English landscape, whose dark richness was quickened and brightened by the season; with the carpeted fields and flowering hedge-rows, as she looked at them from the window of the train; with the spires of the rural churches, peeping above the rook-haunted tree-tops; with the oak-studded parks, the ancient homes, the cloudy light…”
- from Henry James’ “An International Episode”
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An Amtrak train pulls out of Penn Station in New York City on a cold, sunny February morning. The train moves forward as the landscape changes—the East Coast giving way to the Midwest. Passengers fill their roles, the snow begins to fall and the next train station is announced, all while the light continues shifting, bouncing, swelling and slouching into eventual darkness.
made with Meerkat Media and the Goddamn Cobras
58 minutes, 2011
______
press:
A Pala de Walsh / Sabrina D. Marques
The L Magazine (interview)
Some Came Running / Glenn Kenny
Moving Image Source (scroll towards end, under B. Kite)
______
please email to request a screener
