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The Two Sights (An Dà Shealladh)

Name: The Two Sights (An Dà Shealladh)
Director: Joshua Bonnetta
Genre: Experimental
Released: 2020
Duration: 89 min 30 sec

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 project: Features
Running time: 89 min 30 sec
Format: 16mm, 35mm, 4K, 5.1
Director: Joshua Bonnetta
Editor: Joshua Bonnetta
Director of Photography: Joshua Bonnetta
Composer: Joshua Bonnetta

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Canada, UK co-production

Joshua Bonnetta

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