The Sun Has No Shadow

Moving at the intersection of club culture, urban perception and portrait film, The Sun Has No Shadow is an intimate visual journey across a series of raves, clubs and experimental live performances; a personal film manifesto as well as a tribute to London. The fragmentation of the visual experience, practices of self-observation and the tradition of portraiture are some of the reflections surrounding Salvadori’s filmic research.

Developing further what already learned with film collection Rave Trilogy (2020), The Sun Has No Shadow goes deeper into electronic music communities giving an overarching sense of the London-context but also looking at the intimacy between the people taking part; different meta-narratives portrayed under a very subjective and intimate frame, blending together peripheral nocturnal landscapes, shots of people dancing and moments of collective chatarsis with more universal reflections such as matters of general existence and vision of life.

The film centres particularly on FOLD club and UNFOLD day rave format which puts the DJ in the middle of the dancefloor. This spatiality becomes the mark of an alternative approach to togetherness and deep, physical connection and community-making within electronic music.

All the footage is part of a large video archive of relations and experimental music documentation that Salvadori has build over the last 10 years ( 2010-2022 ).

  • rebecca salvadori
    Director
    rave trilogy , empathy
  • rebecca salvadori
    Writer
    rave trilogy , empathy
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 27 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 4, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • The Sun Has No Shadow, Synchronous Errors, FOLD CLUB , London
    London
    United Kingdom
    March 4, 2022
    Premiere
  • The Sun Has No Shadow, Rhythm Image, Screening + Q&A Curated by Jonathan Omer Mizrahi with Alona Rode and Gilad Ratman
    Hamehoga
    Israel
  • ANKALI CLUB, Zahrada Season Opening + Filmoteka Planeta Za #1: Jan Švankmajer, John Smith, Rebecca Salvadori
    Prague
    Czech Republic
  • The Sun Has No Shadow + Tresor Tapes, Tresor 31: Techno, Berlin und die große Freiheit
    Berlin
    Germany
  • The Sun Has No Shadow + Continuum, Ortigia Sound System,
    Ortigia
    Italy
  • The Sun Has No Shadow + Tresor Tapes , UNFOLD, FOLD CLUB
    LONDON
    United Kingdom
  • The Sun Has No Shadow, In lucid dreams we dance, screening + talk, Chisenhale Studios
    London
    United Kingdom
  • The Sun Has No Shadow Two evenings of music films, Iklectik
    LONDON
    United Kingdom
  • The Sun Has No Shadow Het HEM x Amsterdam Dance Event
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
  • The Sun Has No Shadow, World Music Expo 2022
    Lisbon
    Portugal
  • The Sun Has No Shadow + TQS X reiheM – Konzertreihe für Gegenwartsmusik, Elektronik und neue Medien
    Colonia
    Germany
  • The Sun Has No Shadow screening | PAF Olomouc, 21st Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art,
    Olomouc
    Czech Republic
  • The Sun Has No Shadow | Rebecca Salvadori, 22 February –11 March 2023, Recontemporary, Turin, Italy + talk with writer & curator Felice Moramarco ( DEMO Moving Image Experimental Politics ) + Carlotta Magistris ( i-D Italy, CULTO) SEEYOUSOUND International Music Film Festival
    Turin
    Italy
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  • Rebecca Salvadori
Director Biography - rebecca salvadori

Rebecca Salvadori (1984) is a London based artist working at the intersection between video art and documentary.
She has a long experience of filming environments with a focus on non-hierarchical/ chronological layering and sequencing of audio to footage. Her film works act as constellations of highly personal and wilfully elusive heterogeneous elements: multifaceted portraits of moments, people and environments that can be approached from different angles as they move in between personal and transpersonal scales. Over the last 15 years she has consistently engaged with experimental music, with a great interest in finding ways to connect the moving image with sound practices and live performance.

Her audio/visual work has been exhibited at venues and festivals such as Kraftwerk Berlin (DE), ICA, South London Gallery (UK), НИИ niimoscow Science & Art (RUS), Macro Museum of Contemporary Art (IT), Barbican Art Center (UK), Festival of Film and Animation Olomouc (CZ), Festival IMAGES(CH), Crosstalk video art Festival (HU), David Lynch’s Silencio (FR), SCHNUCK Glaspalais (NL), Sophiensaele Theatre (DE), Future Everything Festival Manchester (UK), III Point Festival Miami (US), No Bounds Festival x Warp Records (UK), Camden Art Centre on Cork Street (UK), Cafe Oto (UK), Freud Museum (UK).

Salvadori is the co-founder and co-director of "Tutto Questo Sentire", an artist-run platform that brings together a group of international researchers to reflect and explore their own personal practices in relation to the experience of sound as well as the 2022 Co-Artistic Director of Norient Film Festival in Bern, Switzerland.

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