By Night to Light

The film welcomes us with an image of an "ideal place": a toy world built by a child. But the idyllic scene is a question of perspective. The city is lifeless, the figures frozen. Without the animating human hands, everything is dead here: we see a cemetery, stone crosses. Black images in between give space to the dark. The night then carries us forth in a dreamy world of thought: including a pig character donning sunglasses. The dark shades veil the view. Here she becomes an object, loses her function, becomes absurd. We look at her like at the...