1st Light Zagora | Joe Clark

1st Light Zagora from Joe Clark on Vimeo.

Shot and edited in the desert town of Zagora, Morroco on a residency in the summer of 2008, this animation creates an oblique narrative using available light. Composed of a series of static shots; the edit traverses the town, revealing an uncanny and escalating rhythm which is apparently common to all the lights in the town. The soundtrack made up of a mix of field recordings and designed sounds shifts between foley and music, mirroring our shifting perception of the space: pulsing with an Otherness which fails to make itself known, in a work which is both formally playful and ambivalent about its message.