Darkness as material - PhD project - 2023

Mia Engberg

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The doctoral project Darkness as Material, examines darkness as material and its relationship to cinematic storytelling. The study addresses different kinds of darkness: darkness in the image, darkness in the cinema theatre, darkness in the spectator where films are received and the darkness in the filmmaker, where the world is reflected and ideas are born. The project is inspired by Marguerite Duras' idea to kill cinema, and it explores film's potential to approach the place she described as 'the dark room, where we are deaf and blind and passion is possible'.
Mia Engberg - Darkness as material - PhD project - 2023 - 2023
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Aesthetics of Absence

The Visual Silence

Full film 78 mins:

Secrets of the Sun shares the same soundtrack and tells the same story as Hypermoon, but with (almost) no represenational image. Video synthesizer: Göran Hugo Olsson / Eklången Systemica. Sound design: Jan Alvermark. Graphic design: Alba Lange. Full credits at the end of film.

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