Light Years: The Film Diaries of Tim Cawkwell (1968-87 / 2015-18) (2018) DVD9, download for free

Mar20

Light Years: The Film Diaries of Tim Cawkwell (1968-87 / 2015-18) (2018) DVD9

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 15:42

Tim Cawkwell was born in Oxford in 1948, and completed his studies in Latin, Greek and Ancient History at the University there in 1970. He received another education - parallel, unofficial - in the cinema, and has been watching films ever since. Between 1968 and 1987, he made films, first in 8mm then in 16mm, specializing in working directly on the film frame. He has had a career first in publishing, then in the voluntary sector, ending up as chief administrative officer (a lay position) at Norwich Cathedral. He was involved in the publication of 'The World Encyclopaedia of Film' in 1972, and published 'The Filmgoer's Guide to God' in 2004.

Drawing inspiration from the American Underground films reaching Britain at the time, The Light Years seeks to emulate the qualities of the diary, thus making the personal public. The work brings together a series of short films made on 8mm between 1968 and 1987 to create a single diary film in 25 sections with its own narrative arc as a story of self-education. The material was digitized, re-edited, and voice-over and sound added between 2015 and 2018.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 193 minutes | 7.04 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental