THE TWO SIGHTS
synopsis
The Outer Hebrides was long ago once thought of as a place of seers, who were known to have the gift of Second Sight: an ability to foretell future events. These prognostications were revealed to the seer in the form of visions or otherworldly sounds. Sometimes they took the form of portents derived by augury read from animals, bones, or weather patterns foretelling what has yet come to pass. Using these stories as a starting point, THE TWO SIGHTS, is a portrait of a rapidly changing maritime environment with its acoustic ecology and culture in flux in a time of uncertain futures. Long take Super 16mm cinematography, interwoven with site-specific field recordings and interviews collected from the disappearing oral histories of several Hebridean communities are collaged to explore the relationship between place narrative, environment, and the reciprocal influences they exact upon one another.
international title: | The Two Sights |
original title: | An Dà Shealladh |
country: | Canada, United Kingdom |
year: | 2020 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Joshua Bonnetta |
film run: | 90' |
screenplay: | Joshua Bonnetta |
cinematography by: | Joshua Bonnetta |
film editing: | Joshua Bonnetta |
music: | Joshua Bonnetta |
producer: | Joshua Bonnetta |
executive producer: | Andy MacKinnon |
production: | Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Center (UK), UistFilm (UK) |
backing: | Canada Council For The Arts (CA) |