Movies: Light

Isolated in her room, a girl marks the passage of time, waiting for a special day....

Set in the near future where natural light has become a luxury, Brighter Days tells the story of Edgar, a father determined to drag sunlight into his dark home and give his kids a magical experience they'll never forget....

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....

Two hands over a light....

A homogeneous structure of wind and light across tree branches in the South region of Isère...

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 ...

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

Arda Wuyts experiments with editing and color....

A series of lights flashed on screen in the form of 36 pictures and 3 videos, all contributing to a pattern....

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 ...

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 ...

An insoluble quest....

Three survivors fight to escape a monstrous alternate universe with only one key to get out....

Twilight sets in along the coast of Jard-sur-Mer....

A young woman's night takes a sinister turn as she must confront the possibility that she's not home alone....

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Light is information, a signal more lasting than recollection. If there’s anyone out there to receive the message. Isolated in a sealed apartment, a lone observer regards an outside world outside become increasingly unreal or unreachable. Archaic il...

Backed by an echoed horn music, the light passes through a magnifying glass. On the walls, they portrait pans being held on top of a stove....

"Light from the Mesa" from Barn Owl's album Ancestral Star....

Theory of Light is a documentary centred on the climate emergency through a climate justice lens. It's committed to uplifting the perspectives of communities already being impacted by climate change and representing those who feel excluded from the c...