Directed by Kate Solar

Logline: I wept, and thought I turned towards you to weep / But you were gone

Synopsis: As night falls over the fields, a woman looks into unknown areas: the space after a poem, the distance between map and territory, the darkness between film frames. A pastoral nocturne turns inside out.
This 16mm work was shot at Film Farm in Mt. Forest, Ontario, then re-photographed with flashlight contact-printing. Intuitive processes consider the image and soundtrack as a living thing that breathes and decays.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 6 Minutes
GENRE: Experimental
PRODUCTION FORMAT: 16mm
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Manitoba
KEYWORDS: Ecology, Environment, Self, Experimental, Film farm, Landscape, Flicker, Double Exposure, Contact Printing, Flashlight, Soundscape, Underwater

Director's Statement: This film takes as its starting point the poem “On the Wing” by Christina Rossetti, which I encountered amidst a family health emergency that hung over my time at Film Farm. Fragments of scratched text flicker throughout the film’s distorted landscapes.
The film was shot on hi-con stock, mainly at night, using truck headlights as my light source. It was originally processed using a homemade developer made with comfrey leaves, and then contact-printed and bucket processed again in the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-op darkroom.