Movies: Light

A Sunday walk in a forest turns into a poetic journey on perception....

After a power cut one night, Stan thinks he is seeing things. All alone, he must face what lurks in the dark....

When a young android programmed for extraordinary purpose discovers a rogue coworker, he is inspired to pursue an ordinary life - a choice that threatens the future of himself and his mentor....

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in "Sunday in the Park with George," book writer James Lapine and composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim bring a story based on the work ...

Friends on a weekend excursion take a path into a forest that leads to death and destruction....

The film discusses the evolution and potential of using light waves, particularly coherent light, for communication. It highlights the development of lasers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, explaining how they produce a highly controlled and intense b...

Light is a fascinating phenomenon. Without light, there would be no cinema, no film – and no life. So light is at the origin of everything, and yet it remains invisible to the eye until it hits matter. This moment is – quite literally – the starting ...

An insoluble quest....

With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center. Undercutting the cinematic quality inherent in this view of teeming traffic, the upright frame instead suggests a ...

Light begins to illuminate the small, nipple-like end of a lemon on the right edge of the frame and gradually spreads until the entire lemon is clearly visible. Then the light recedes across the frame....

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Two hands over a light....

Take a look inside Jimmy's life and his ways....

A couple experiences unusual events on a night out....

Dusk of the Lights is a short experimental film directed by Allan Bustovsky....

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An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They ar...

A Short Christmas film set in the 1980's. A young boy befriends a strange man living in the forest. After the boy passes away, on the following christmas a mysterious light appears in the sky. The light catches the mans attention as well as the siste...

Norman, who lost his parents in a fire as a child, is obsessed with light and haunted by its destructive powers....

Hans the farmer is drawn into war as a soldier. Returning from the front, having been defrauded of his pay by his own king, he makes his way home. On his trip, he encounters a witch who asks him to fetch the light from a spring. He keeps it when the ...