Night Vision
Philim Barker, Canada
Fiction, 2006, 24'
In the office of an analyst, a woman watches a photograph. This is a test, a kind of TAT, and she starts to imagine a story behind this photograph. The story starts... She is a mother, with two children. A sense à catastrophy, something happened that is killing all the fireflies... But their goal is to catch as many fireflies as possible, for an alchemy opération that creates pills that will help an old man to see. The story will be lead in two phases, after coming back to the analyst, the story will start again, as if the wowan is trying to rearrange a story that did not fit. The process of imagination is very realistic, as a mind pussle, piece after piece. Fascination of this very living landscape (a lake in north Canada), but fill only by the product of the woman's imagination.
It's a story of a very strict mother, who looses her children (they fall in a waterfall), but who tries to arrange things, teaching them her alchemy science and treating them as adults. It's the story of initiation, where the vision is not something given, but womething that had to be earned after a lot of efforts. It's about dedication of the youth to a cause, to this old blind man, who is trying to remember the names of the colors.
The cinematography is wonderfull. Large landscapes are shown in low saturated colors, and really seems to come from imagination. I can't remembre the number of breathing scenes, or on the water, or in the cabin during the preparation of the pills... We are transported somewhere else, on another planet, and it's impossible not to be amased by such images.
Philip Barker
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