LIGHT RISING, inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, is a poetic film that takes its viewer beyond the narrative on a journey through the seasons and a dance of becoming, celebrating the uplifting forces that keep on carrying life.

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a poetic meditation

an ode to the uplifting forces carrying and supporting life

a murmur, a song of the elements’ interplay

diving into a space of liquid time

flowing onward, falling and rising,

in a dance of continuous becoming.

CREDITS

– film by Andrea Hackl

– music – Antoine Viard [Tumulus] & Zachary Paul [Music for Mourning / It’s Cloudy Outside]

– camera + editing – Andrea Hackl

– text excerpt from the EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

This film project has started in frame of an artistic residency at Bohemia Farmstudio in Czech Republic & was financially supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague.

SCREENINGS + FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

Time is a cool liquid.

It flows away like a river.

We shall see no end of it.

There is no end to becoming.

I praise the moment I die in fire

for the veils of illusion burn with me.

I see how hard we strive for truth,

and once attained

how easily we forget.

I hold that fire as long as I can.

To live is to die a thousand deaths,

but there is only one fire,

one eternity.

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD