I was imagining a collaboration of parallel worlds or a kind of doubled consciousness, a sense of the corporeal and the riddle of absence. The body of the film depends on a spine of interlocking contrasts in the form of negative and positive space, day and night shots, under and above water elements. These are cut on motion and qualities of light that are sometimes gentle and sometimes jarring, to convey the tender labor of hosting a balance. A crossing of paths behind the seen in the wake of one who no longer walks the curve of the world. Eclipse is an elegy for Marion McMahon who co-founded the Film Farm (Independent Imaging Retreat) in Southern Ontario, where it was produced. (Eve Heller)
Behind This Soft Eclipse
Behind This Soft Eclipse
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Eve Heller
- Format: Digital File
- Color: B/W
- Production Country: USA
- Production Year: 2004
- Duration: 9΄
- Contact: sixpackfilm
Concept & Realization: Eve Heller
Eve Heller
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts USA, Eve Heller began studying filmmaking when she was 17, attending the S.U.N.Y. Department of Media Studies at Buffalo and New York University. She received her BA in German Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies from Hunter College in 1987 and an MFA in filmmaking from Bard College in 1993. Her award-winning work has been widely shown, both in the U.S. and internationally, at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Collective for Living Cinema, the New York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives, Cinematheque Ontario, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Louvre, the Viennale and the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna. Eve teaches workshops throughout the world on analog filmmaking and works as a German/English translator specializing in texts about cinema. She currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and Hyde Park, New York.
Filmography
1978–2010 One (short)
1981–2010 Self-Examination Remote Control (short)
1982–2010 Juice (short)
1996 Last Lost (short)
1997 Astor Place (short)
2001 Her Glacial Speed (short)
2004 Behind This Soft Eclipse (short)
2005 Ruby Skin (short)
2013 Creme 21 (short)
2021 Singing in Oblivion (short)
