Experiencing Interruptions?

Absence of Light

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.

Technical note: The Video for this Submission is in stereo but the actual films audio is 5.1 surround sound.

  • Beatrice Aliné
    Director
  • Johann Woo
    Camera
  • Bal-Aton Bori
    Sounddesign
  • Tim Pauli
    Music
  • Joris Bölt
    Animation
  • 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
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany, Hungary
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1,85:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Fachhochschule Dortmund
  • 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
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

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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.