the light – the shade

3d-Animation
Germany (2014)
7 min 7 sec
HD 1920/1080, 16:9, 25fps, stereo
Idea and Animation: Susanne Wiegner
Poem and Voice: Robert Lax

„the light – the shade“ is a poem by Robert Lax that plays with the contrasts and opposites light and shade, with bright and dark, black and white, red and blue. The film begins with a nighttime scenery in a city, moves into a room and starts watching the movement of the shadows on the wall. Finally the camera enters the screen of a laptop and goes deeper and deeper into the poem. The film becomes a journey through the realm of imagination, through spaces and pictures, through letters and words. In that way the minimal language of the poem is unfolded into unexpected pictures.