Format VOD
Original format HD
Year 2016-2019
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Holly Fisher
Sous-titres English
Running time 92 min
Films
A QUESTION OF SUNLIGHT (2019) 82'
RUFFLED FEATHERS (2016) 10'
Description
"A Question of Sunlight is a strangely haunting film about memory—its wounds, its powers, its failures, its surprises. A man speaks of a terrible thing he believes he saw—and perhaps he really did see it. Around this singular figure, a fractal cloud of images appears and disappears, as partial and repetitive as memories themselves. A unique and striking work."
— John Crowley, author/professor
"A Question of Sunlight juxtaposes brutal memories of 9/11 with the enduring trauma of the Holocaust. We see and hear in striking close-ups the artist José Urbach reliving scenes of the Nazi invasion during his childhood in Poland, as he confronts the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center towers on September 11th. Unlike the many documentaries featuring interviews with Holocaust survivors that we've seen over the past decade, this film compels us to situate the narrative within images of life. We hear about destruction, but we see the effervescence of urban life slowed down in a Parisian café or glimpsed through a window shimmering in the sunlight. Life goes on, people regain their dignity and their capacity to create beauty, even as images of death continue to haunt them."
— Karen Remmler, Professor of German Studies, Critical Social Thought and Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College