Upwards Tide

A magical lunar reverie filmed over four years on the days and nights of the full moon, this shimmering moving-image poem fluidly combines images of the saltwater Loch Carron in the Scottish Highlands and leafy Viennese forests. The two locations blur and bleed into each other, just as the film itself (shot on gloriously outdated analogue stock) wanders freely among human bodies and bodies of water. Transcendent, transfiguring, transformative.
(Neil Young VIS 2022)


Even in silence, the moon exudes light. Or perhaps especially in silence, which may be one of the reasons Daniela Zahlner’s magical film Upwards Tide begins its...

Orig. Title
Upwards Tide
Year
2022
Country
Austria
Duration
5 min 30 sec
Director
Daniela Zahlner
Category
Experimental
Orig. Language
Mandinka
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