ALMATY INDIE FILM FESTIVAL
Absence of Light
Overview
You can measure the light but you can’t measure the dark. In duality we see one as the opposite of the other. Yet darkness is the absence of light. And an absence is not a measurable thing. It simply does not exist.
Light protects us from our fundamental fear of the dark. But where there is light, there must be shadow. We live in a technological era where our dependence on energy is greater than ever before. It became an irreplaceable commodity.
The film takes us on a journey of how fragile our modern reality is.
Director Biography — Beatrice Aliné
Born in 1993 in Franconia, southern Germany as Beatrice Aline Fischer, she started to develop a love for the audio-visual form of storytelling and film became her big passion. After finishing high school, she went traveling for three years. Followed by an internship at the local TV channel she moved to Dortmund, where she studies Film on the Fachhochschule Dortmund since 2016. Currently she's writing and preparing her bachelor film.
Previous projects:
- Schweigespirale - Full Dome Installation - 2020
(Writer/Producer/Director) - Planetarium Bochum, Filmlaboratory KiU
- Tracked (AT) – Multilinear Short - 2019
(Screenplay/Director) - FH Do, Filmlaboratory KiU
- Gold der schwarzen Teufel – Experimental – 2018
(Writer/Director/Editor) – FH Do, Museum Ostwall – Presented in „Kunst & Kohle – SchichtWechsel“
- Wunschkind – Fictional Short – 2017
(Co-Writer/Director) – FH Do
Director Statement
When I first started I wanted to create a film without a narrator or play. So only the juxtaposition of images mixed with the right sounds will show us a story from the perspective of the earth. With a need on energy to run our daily lives we're dependend and therefor fragile to greater impacts. The natural world regenerates from its own balance. So who are we to cut ourselfs off of nature, then interfere with nature and forget that we're nothing else but nature?
Next to what I've intendet the viewer to see, this film is an experiment and I'm very excited for what else people might understand from the story. The cameraman Johann Woo as well as the Sounddesigner Bal-Aton Bori and I have worked on a previous project and grew together as a team, which allowed us to find our own filmlanguage and style.
Credits
- Director
- Beatrice Aliné
- Camera
- Johann Woo
- Sounddesign
- Bal-Aton Bori
- Music
- Tim Pauli
- Animation
- Joris Bölt
Specifications
- Project type
- Experimental, Short, Student
- Genres
- Audio-Visuell, fictional documentary, Science Faction
- Runtime
- 10 minutes
- Completion date
- October 1, 2019
- Production budget
- 1,500 EUR
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Countries of filming
- Germany, Hungary
- Shooting format
- Digital
- Aspect ratio
- 1,85:1
- Film color
- Color
- First-time filmmaker
- Yes
- Student project
- Yes - Fachhochschule Dortmund
- Digital Cinema Package
- Unavailable
Awards & Festivals
Film Festival Münster
Münster
Germany
September 22, 2019
German Premiere
Winner "Westfalen Connection"
Golden Baklava Film Academy International Student Film Festival
Şahinbey / Gaziantep
Turkey
December 14, 2019
Winner "Honorable Mention Award"
European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA)
Amsterdam
Netherlands
October 1, 2019
Winner "Best Student Cinematography" (Monthly)
Asian Cinematography AWARDS (ACA)
October 1, 2019
Winner "Best Cinematography of a Student Short Film" (Monthly)
Kino London Short Film Festival
London
United Kingdom
March 7, 2020
Winner "Best Experimental Short"
ShorTS International Film Festival
Trieste
Italy
July 4, 2020
Italien Premiere
Winner "Science & Society"
Signes de Nuit
Paris
France
October 29, 2020
Winner "Night Award - Special Mention"
Duemila30
Milano
Italy
June 28, 2024
Environmental Section
Short Sounds Film Festival
Bournemouth
United Kingdom
February 27, 2020
Best Sound & Music in a Student Film