The first half of the film explores delicate nuances of lighting, colour and depth as Beavers shoots the face of a young man in various locales on the Greek island of Hydra, using a variety of customized masks and filters. The man’s face remains constant throughout, surrounded by iconic elements in the landscape, like a pulsating Renaissance portrait. Still Light brings to mind any number of structuralist binarisms: youth and age, creation and criticism, action and reflection, living landscape and mummified text.
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Cast
2 people
Robert Beavers Director
United States release December 13, 1971 · Produced in Switzerland, Greece
Production
Switzerland · Greece
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 13, 1971
Premiere · Goethe House, New York
United States
September 28, 1973 · Premiere · Anthology Film Archives
February 12, 1974 · Premiere · Museum of Modern Art
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