Shadow Journeys
In 2017 I saw Tina Keane’s Shadow of a Journey at a screening of her films at BFI Southbank. The film itself really stuck with with me and in subsequent years I’ve found myself reminded of its visual arrangement when its been reflected back to me in other films with similar compositions. The below is work in progress, an ever-evolving collection or survey of shadow journeys across cinema and artists’ moving image as and when I come across them or think to add them.
Shadow of a Journey (Tina Keane, 1980)
Lost Land (Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, 2011)
Pump (Joseph David, 2017)
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
Human Flow (Ai Weiwei, 2017)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
“Butades, a potter of Sicyon, was the first who invented, at Corinth, the art of modelling portraits in the earth which he used in his trade. It was through his daughter that he made the discovery; who, being deeply in love with a young man about to depart on a long journey, traced the profile of his face, as thrown upon the wall by the light of the lamp. Upon seeing this, her father filled in the outline, by compressing clay upon the surface, and so made a face in relief, which he then hardened by fire along with other articles of pottery.”