Movie about a lighthouse keeper3/23/2023 I hope this didn't come off as pretentious smart-talking, it's just how I'd describe this movie. The great camera work, sound design and acting are some extra cherries on top. It manages to tell a lot of story in only 90mins without feeling rushed. The pacing helps with telling a story about isolation as days turn into months. This film is a masterpiece in building an atmosphere, immersing the viewer and creating deep characters. With a bit of reading between the lines and interpreting the dialogue you start to understand the characters, they're past and they're thoughts and feelings. The worker isn't and once he talks about his past with the accident incident it starts to torment him even more on top of the isolation. The keeper is used to isolation, he can live with it. Young guy gets more and more fed up with the superstition and need for authority while the keeper wants someone to talk to. Their fuses become short, young guy starts drinking, they're getting on each others nerves while simultaneously being the only company they have. They're both dudes on an island so they jerk off (old man to the light which he got attached to, young guy to his mermaid figure, has fantasies about meeting it irl etc). There's the physical plot: The old man scamming young dudes into doing the dirty work for him (possibly killed one in the past who also went insane), the boat either doesn't come or they miss it (maybe intentionally by the old guy to keep his worker from quitting) and the fight for the light in the end. With The Lighthouse now released online, Scheiber can concentrate on new projects, currently working on a few short term commissions whilst he develops a new script, the filmmaker is happy to admit that his next film” will be pretty different from The Lighthouse in regards to story, technique, colour, and edit”.I think if this movie would need a genre it would be Psychology. Additionally, I self-financed the whole project which didn’t help speed up the process either” Because of that I had to teach myself the fundamentals of all kind of professions that are essential on a stop-frame production. “Although I was working in the field of digital animation and design for a couple of years, I had no practical stop-frame experience whatsoever when I started on The Lighthouse. “Stop-motion always had a special place for me ever since I saw Wallace & Gromit for the first time”, Scheiber reveals. Keen to discover why he adopted such a time-consuming animation approach when creating his film, we spoke to the director about his production process: Seven years in production, The Lighthouse’s imposing aesthetic combines classic techniques with modern technology (rapid prototyping and digital motor/light automation) to create a film of truly impressive craft. A dialogue-free tale of a lighthouse keeper that discovers a mysterious phenomenon at work, Scheiber’s film sees this age-old occupation transported to celestial realms in this enigmatic short. Inspired by an adolescent belief that the map of the world would continue on the other side, Simon Scheiber’s visually impressive short The Lighthouse uses striking black-and-white stop-motion to deliver its poetic storyline.
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