Into The Outside
Into The Outside
Film
By Angus Carlyle and Chiara Caterina
Made in Southern Italy as part of the Liminaria Residency programme.
2016
The title of the film echoes a quotation from Georges Bataille - "Here darkness is not the absence of light (of sound) but absorbtion into the outside” - and announces its exploration of the nocturnal that is also evoked in a blog post Angus wrote while on the residency: "Night insects draw to my headtorch and to Guiliano’s LED light. Bubbles, scrapes and chinks for my hydrophone trawl; a crab clicks over a flat rock. Water creatures in the depths under the bridge – Raffeale captures their energies in a way I could not. Birdsong strange in the moon’s soft grey; Chiara submerges one camera and aims another to the far shore. Franco talks of the purposes of night. Five foxes on the way home; at the farm, one screams for 10 minutes then – my recorder now on – nientefor the half an hour til I fall asleep standing up”.
“Into The Outside” was short-listed for the Swedenborg Film Festival prize 2016.