Movies: Light

Theory of Light is a documentary centred on the climate emergency through a climate justice lens. It's committed to uplifting the perspectives of communities already being impacted by climate change and representing those who feel excluded from the c...

A Short Christmas film set in the 1980's. A young boy befriends a strange man living in the forest. After the boy passes away, on the following christmas a mysterious light appears in the sky. The light catches the mans attention as well as the siste...

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A pair of conspiracy theorists spot lights outside their window and post their findings on the forums....

One night, a guy sees a face staring at him from his door. Scared, but intrigued, he decides to investigate....

Something strange appears outside the window. Months later, a pregnant woman and her boyfriend are visited by a mysterious figure who has many questions....

Two hands over a light....

The film discusses the evolution and potential of using light waves, particularly coherent light, for communication. It highlights the development of lasers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, explaining how they produce a highly controlled and intense b...

A series of lights flashed on screen in the form of 36 pictures and 3 videos, all contributing to a pattern....

Light is information, a signal more lasting than recollection. If there’s anyone out there to receive the message. Isolated in a sealed apartment, a lone observer regards an outside world outside become increasingly unreal or unreachable. Archaic il...

An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They ar...

On a little planet surrounded by clouds, two robots dream about seeing the sky...

A film about the plains as an abyss and the night as a hiding place where darkness seems to keep a blazing secret and carry the imminence of an event perpetually postponed. An inquiry about the imaginary line that separates the provinces of Buenos Ai...

From the light that falls on the backyard of his house on the day of the equinox without shadow in Quito, and inspired by the "Theory of colors" of Goethe, the director takes us to several cities in America to reflect on the influence that the light ...

Robert Estragon has worked his way to the top of the food chain as a doctor in the city, but it has driven him to self-imposed delusion. Here, we listen as he sits and projects himself onto the mad world he observes. It all comes to a head when Willi...

With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center. Undercutting the cinematic quality inherent in this view of teeming traffic, the upright frame instead suggests a ...

Two sisters confront the shadows of their past following Agda's death. As they return home, lingering secrets ignite tension, especially for Isis, who believes the light may bridge her connection to Agda's spirit...

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Five fragments of observation and sensations during a journey with Gorneton's trail in Seyssuel, Isère. A work-in-progress with sounds, the interest of light and the solitude of a digital camera....

Shadow tells the story of Mirage, whose love for his family deepens after a tragic incident injures his parents. Years later, their bond is tested when hidden truths emerge, throwing Mirage into inner turmoil...