Light Years
Esther May Campbell
Eight-year-old Rose believes a family is like a stellar constellation – even if some stars died millions of years ago, even if they are light years apart, they are all somehow connected.
Over the course of one sun-soaked summer’s day, Light Years explores just how strong this bond is in the case of Rose’s family. The two older siblings Ewan and Ramona share their father Dee’s listlessness which appears to be caused by the painful absence of the mentally ill mother Moira. But when Rose sets out on her own to visit her mother in her care home, she unleashes a new dynamism amongst the psychologically paralysed members of the family.
With laconic humour and powerful imagery, Esther May Campbell captures in her debut film all the small nuances of a complex network of relations. Mixing social and poetic realism, her experimental drama tells the story of a traumatised family and establishes a remarkable closeness particularly to her young protagonists.
Film series Internal Migration
Esther May Campbell
Die 1972 in London geborene Fotografin und Filmemacherin Esther May Campbell hat Musikvideos und Aufklärungsfilme realisiert, aber auch Fernsehproduktionen für Channel 4 und die BBC (Kommissar Wallander mit Kenneth Branagh). Ihre Filme erzählen oft von verlorenen Seelen, tragischer Liebe und Tagträumer*innen; so auch ihr Kurzfilm September, mit dem sie u. a. einen BAFTA Award gewann. Mit dem Cube- Cinema-Kollektiv in ihrer Wahlheimat Bristol organisiert Campbell ein Gemeinschaftskino für Kinder, die von den Folgen der Erdbeben in Haiti und Nepal betroffen sind.
Filme von Esther May Campbell
Wallander 2012 | Skins 2010 | September 2008 | Doctors 2006-2007 | Delilah 2001
