Picture of Light is an hallucinatory tale which documents a filmmaker's journey to Canada's arctic in search of the Northern Lights. While combining glimpses of the characters who live in this environment and the crew's both comic and absurd attempts to deal with the extremes, the film reflects upon the paradoxes involved in trying to capture the natural wonder of the Northern Lights on celluloid. The majesty and mystery of the aurora borealis lead the film to a most unexpected and haunting finale which considers the future of our relationship to technology and nature, in an increasingly artificial world.
"An extraordinary piece of film making. In an era when only one movie in a hundred has a single moment of visionary power, Peter Mettler's Picture of Light is bursting with them." (John Powers, Vogue)
Presented in association with Film Studies 310: English Canadian Film
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- Wednesday April 07 at 8:00PM
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