IDFA 1997
Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light
Luminous Eye Productions
Canada
1996
70 min
n.a.
Instead of making a classic writer‘s portrait, filmmaker Oliver Hockenhull chose to visualise Huxley‘s body of thoughts by using stock footage (including television interviews), computer-made 3D animation, dramatised scenes and recited excerpts from Huxley‘s essays in Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light. The film takes his famous book Brave New World from 1932 as a departure point for a cinematographic journey along the history of modern-day technology. New media and the virtual cyberspace are a (temporary) end point. The film also links up Huxley’s experiments with hallucinogenic drugs and the ecstasy-craving rave scene.
Credits
Distribution
Cinema Esperanca International Inc., Andre Bennett Productions
Cinema Esperanca International Inc., Andre Bennett Productions
Director
Luminous Eye Productions
Luminous Eye Productions
Production
Luminous Eye Productions
Luminous Eye Productions