Still Light (1973)

Landscape and desire Details from the Greek island of Hydra a figure a study in light and place and the act of creation The first half of the film explores delicate nuances of lighting colour and depth as Beavers shoots the face of a young man in various locales on the Greek island of Hydra using a variety of customized masks and filters The mans face remains constant throughout surrounded by iconic elements in the landscape like a pulsating Renaissance portrait Still Light brings to mind any number of structuralist binarisms youth and age creation and criticism action and reflection living landscape and mummified text Ed Halter New York Press