Produced by Metropolitan Films.

    Filmed and Directed by Naomi Wilson.

    Sound & Music by Brian Doyle.

 

SYNOPSIS:

 

      In Twilight we are drawn into a magical world where discarded objects and beach debris take on a life of their own. A flotsam and jetsam fairy dance is disturbed and all hell breaks loose. Beautifully filmed using real objects, with a tightly interwoven, textural soundtrack, Twilight takes us into a surreal and strongly atmospheric world of its own.

 

 

BACKGROUND:

 

TWILIGHT came out of a response to walking the remote beaches on Loop             Head in West Clare. Real objects were collected from the beach and used both for filming and making sound effects. Colour, texture and atmosphere are crucial to the film which has a dream-like quality, a type of film poetry or moving sculpture that reveals itself over several viewings. The film is set on a beach at night where a

mixture of man-made and natural objects play out their physical and ideological tensions in a kind of magical fairy-dance. Filmed to look like fantastical 'documentary footage',

TWILIGHT imagines what might go on on the beach at night when we are not looking.

 

 

 

TECHNIQUE:

 

The film was made using pixilation techniques. Real objects were collected and a fake beach was constructed in the studio in West Clare. A special track was designed so that the camera could be moved during filming to give a hand-held look to the camerawork. The objects were moved by hand and filmed using stop motion technique with a bolex camera. Sounds were recorded locally on and

specific sound effects were foleyed using the objects themselves. Great attention was paid to syncing sound with visuals and to tactile detail in general. The music track is developed from a melody written and played on the mandolin. Slowed down twenty times initially and harmonised with itself it speeds up throughout the film, finishing up in real time at the end. Combining skills in sculpture, lighting, animation and sound manipulation, TWILIGHT creates a surreal film space with a unique dream-like quality. The film opens and closes with live action shots to enhance the feeling of entering into and out of this dream space.