From Darkness (Ur Mörkret) had its UK première at FrightFest 2024, 24 Aug From Darkness (Ur Mörkret) opens with chillingly desolate, lifeless spaces: a snowy forest seen from multiple angles, an old abandoned derrick over a quarry, a derelict building exposed to the elements, and a tracking shot to a cave entrance that is pitch…
Lovely, Dark, and Deep had its world première at Fantasia 2023 “Into the forest I go, to lose my mind, and find my soul” goes the text quote from John Muir with which Lovely, Dark, and Deep opens. Sure enough, this feature debut from writer/director Teresa Sutherland, who previously scripted Emma Tammi’s The Wind (2018),…
Body at Brighton Rock begins with a vista of national parkland. DP Hannah Getz’s camera remains fixed, with only the slight rustling of leaves that frame the wide shot giving any indication that this is not a still. The green of the forest and the blue of the sky all seem to have been conspicuously…