The Two Sights (An Dà Shealladh)
Synopsis
The Outer Hebrides was long ago once thought of as a place of seers, who were known to have the gift of Second Sight: an ability to foretell future events. These prognostications were revealed to the seer in the form of visions or otherworldly sounds. Sometimes they took the form of portents derived by augury read from animals, bones, or weather patterns foretelling what has yet come to pass.
Using these stories as a starting point, THE TWO SIGHTS, is a portrait of a rapidly changing maritime environment with its acoustic ecology and culture in flux in a time of uncertain futures.
Long take Super 16mm cinematography, interwoven with site-specific field recordings and interviews collected from the disappearing oral histories of several Hebridean communities are collaged to explore the relationship between place narrative, environment, and the reciprocal influences they exact upon one another.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Forum - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2020
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 89 min 30 sec
- Format
- 16mm, 35mm, 4K, 5.1
- Director
- Joshua Bonnetta
- Editor
- Joshua Bonnetta
- Director of Photography
- Joshua Bonnetta
- Music
- Joshua Bonnetta
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 22nd January 2020
