The Afterlight | |
---|---|
Directed by | Charlie Shackleton |
Produced by | Catherine Bray Anthony Ing Charlie Shackleton |
Cinematography | Robbie Ryan |
Edited by | Charlie Shackleton |
Music by | Jeremy Warmsley |
Production company | Loop |
Release date |
|
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
The Afterlight is a 2021 British experimental supercut art film directed and assembled by Charlie Shackleton. It is presumed to be lost after its only existing print disappeared in transit between screenings in 2024. [1] [2]
The film, produced by Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing and Shackleton, and distributed by their studio Loop, [3] consisted of scenes of actors from old films who are no longer alive. [4] The only copy of the Afterlight existed on a single 35mm film print, [5] so that every time the film played it would gradually erode until eventually it would diminish entirely and become a lost film. [6] Featuring cinematography from Robbie Ryan and composed of films from the 1960s or before, [7] [8] [4] the film was entirely in black and white. [9]
Jonathan Romney, writing for the British Film Institute, gave a positive review of the Afterlight, stating that "placed together, the images evoke a post-death existence, perfect, poetic and yet irreducibly desolate," and favourably compared the film to the 2010 supercut art installation The Clock. [11] Adrian Hui of the Michigan Daily gave a more mixed review, praising its concept and "seamless [editing] between shots from different films as if they were the same film and pieces of dialogue from different films," but stated that as an experimental film, the Afterlight was "not experimental enough," arguing that the film was "not quite bold enough in pushing the boundaries" of its source material. [12]
The Afterlight had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 15 October 2021. [4] Before its disappearance, the film screened publicly 56 times according to its official website:
After its screening at the Hyde Park Picture House, the film was due to be screened at the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon. [13] However, on June 14, 2024, Shackleton posted on X that the 35mm print had disappeared in transit between Leeds and Lisbon, and that he now considered the film lost. [14]
The Afterlight | |
---|---|
Directed by | Charlie Shackleton |
Produced by | Catherine Bray Anthony Ing Charlie Shackleton |
Cinematography | Robbie Ryan |
Edited by | Charlie Shackleton |
Music by | Jeremy Warmsley |
Production company | Loop |
Release date |
|
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
The Afterlight is a 2021 British experimental supercut art film directed and assembled by Charlie Shackleton. It is presumed to be lost after its only existing print disappeared in transit between screenings in 2024. [1] [2]
The film, produced by Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing and Shackleton, and distributed by their studio Loop, [3] consisted of scenes of actors from old films who are no longer alive. [4] The only copy of the Afterlight existed on a single 35mm film print, [5] so that every time the film played it would gradually erode until eventually it would diminish entirely and become a lost film. [6] Featuring cinematography from Robbie Ryan and composed of films from the 1960s or before, [7] [8] [4] the film was entirely in black and white. [9]
Jonathan Romney, writing for the British Film Institute, gave a positive review of the Afterlight, stating that "placed together, the images evoke a post-death existence, perfect, poetic and yet irreducibly desolate," and favourably compared the film to the 2010 supercut art installation The Clock. [11] Adrian Hui of the Michigan Daily gave a more mixed review, praising its concept and "seamless [editing] between shots from different films as if they were the same film and pieces of dialogue from different films," but stated that as an experimental film, the Afterlight was "not experimental enough," arguing that the film was "not quite bold enough in pushing the boundaries" of its source material. [12]
The Afterlight had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 15 October 2021. [4] Before its disappearance, the film screened publicly 56 times according to its official website:
After its screening at the Hyde Park Picture House, the film was due to be screened at the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon. [13] However, on June 14, 2024, Shackleton posted on X that the 35mm print had disappeared in transit between Leeds and Lisbon, and that he now considered the film lost. [14]