Gleam of Light 1977
1977 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala
1977 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala
1975 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala
1974 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala
1973 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala
Holidaymakers at a public pool on the river at the Černošice summer resort. The film was produced by Illusion, a company established at the beginning of World War I in Prague. In addition to film news and documentary films, it also produced film dramas. Most of its production is considered lost.
Swifts spend their entire lives in the air. They sleep while flying and are among the fastest birds in the world. The camera captures what their great speed makes impossible to see with the naked eye, the space-time of the swift's flight in the form of stages of flight, trajectories and curves. Swifts as a form of joy in the air as a form of home.
Creatively paraphrasing the work of Wilhelm Reich, the filmmakers have created a 3D animation of various objects, colored by theoretical considerations on the fetishization of goods and possibilities for liberating ourselves from the desire to amass property.
The generation conflict present in the daily disputes of a grandmother and granddaughter, the film director, lead to her decision to leave; the compact images of the gradual moving out of the house, bound by place and time, and the long, agonizing dialogues become a basis for the cruelly intimate documentary within private reality, where feelings mingle with reproach; and where, despite mutual blame, nobody is guilty, as the captured situation is accompanied by nothing but misunderstanding.